Seven Early Evelyn Waugh First Editions

To include:

ROSSETTI: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. Hardcover in cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo; 232pp. with index. plus frontispiece and (7) additional illustrations.

VILE BODIES. London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First edition. Hardcover in red and black patterned cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo; x, 254pp. including press opinions at the end. Pictorial title page with jacket illustration.

REMOTE PEOPLE. London: Duckworth, 1931. First edition. Hardcover in cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo; 240pp. plus frontispiece, (2) fold-out maps, and (6) additional illustrations.

BLACK MISCHIEF. London: Chapman & Hall, 1932. First edition. Hardcover in red and black patterned cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. In partial jacket only. 8vo; 304pp. with map as frontispiece.

THEY WERE STILL DANCING. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1932. First American Edition. Hardcover in yellow cloth boards with illustrated cover, top edge stained. 8vo; [x], 318pp. including (2) maps.

MR. LOVEDAY'S LITTLE OUTING. London: Chapman & Hall, 1936. First edition. Hardcover in red and black patterned cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo; 238pp. With frontispiece.

SCOOP: A NOVEL ABOUT JOURNALISTS. London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. First edition. Hardcover in red and black patterned cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo; [viii], 308pp. plus one page advertisement at the end. With "a" on p. 88 and raised "8" on copyright.

Tallest book 8 7/8 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Boards with staining, spotting, sunning, marks, and rubbing, (2) with tears at head and tail of spine, several with spines separating from text block; pages toned, scattered foxing, some staining and offsetting to endpapers, some books with pages with general waviness, (1) with name on free endpaper, the rest unmarked. Vile Bodies ex-library; Mr. Loveday's Little Outing with repairs at hinges (possibly as issued); They Were Still Dancing with several pages still uncut. Poor to very good in poor to no jackets.