Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WAUGH, EVELYN. Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. 8vo, original mauve cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light fading to spine extremities; dust jacket, spine panel slightly sunned, 1-inch closed tears to top and bottom of rear panel; contents clean; custom red cloth drop-back box. London: Chapman & Hall, 1945
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first edition, with "Cat. No. 5010/4" printed at the foot of the verso of the title-page. Due to wartime restrictions poor paper stocks were used in the book's production, and surviving jackets in such fine condition are scarce. Waugh's best known work.