Boyle Stuart Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. An early printing in navy blue cloth and tinted top page ends with gilt to type. Marbled endpapers. Light wear to top corners and spine ends. Jacket is unclipped (7s. 6d.) with with light wear to spine ends and tiny chips at head and one of top corners. Tanning to spine and top of rear panel. 3rdPrinting.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Third Print (first print same year). Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 144pp. Marbled endpapers. B/w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (10/2).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. n.d. (as called for). FIRST TRADE EDITION. Crown 8vo, pp. [vi], 144, incl. Boyle's frontis and seven full-page illustrations, plus decorated initials. Navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge blue (faded). Blue marbled endpapers. Spine cocked, slight bend to boards, else, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: toned, extremities chipped, edgewear, blue staining to top of both flaps. Still, a pleasing copy of Waugh's slight satirical novel of Hollywood and the LA funeral business. Very good/ very good. With a printed dedication to Nancy Mitford, framed in an urn. Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood adapted Waugh's novel for Hollywood in 1965, with Tony Richardson directing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (First Edition) Firm copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Minor wear to edges and spine end with slight sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover. Not dated, circa 1948. Original dark blue cloth with gold lettering; 144 pages. a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. Basis for the 1965 film directed by Tony Richardson, screenplay by Terry Southern, and starring Robert Morse, Milton Berle, James Coburn, Liberace, John Gielgud, Dana Andrews, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowell, and Jonathan Winters. Stuart Boyle(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition. Number 197 of 250 copies in the large paper edition, signed by Waugh and the illustrator on preliminary colophon page. 144 p. Green cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Near Fine. Light sunning to spine and faint bubble in front board. A novella by the acclaimed British author satirizing his countrymen abroad and Hollywood that was a surprise hit in the U.S. Signed.…