Waugh Stopp (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful selection of first edition biographies on Evelyn Waugh, together with a volume of his travel memoirs. This set comprises eight biographies and one autobiography, all concerning English writer Evelyn Waugh, who is widely regarded as one of the great prose stylists of 20th-century English literature.His autobiographical volume 'Labels' marks his first travel book, detailing in his typical eloquence and wit his cruise around the Mediterranean.All complete with the original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'To the War with Waugh'.Comprising the following works, all being first editions, first impressions except for those stated otherwise: Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of an Artist by Frederick J. Stopp (1958) The World of Evelyn Waugh by Charles Rolo (1958) My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles by Alec Waugh (1967) Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour by Frances Donaldson (1968) - First Readers and Union Edition To the War with Waugh by John St. John (1974) Labels: A Mediterranean Journal by Evelyn Waugh (1974) - First with an introduction by Kingsley Amis Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Christopher Sykes (1975) Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966 by Martin Stannard (1992) Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Selina Hastings (1994) In the original cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'To the War with Waugh'. Externally, very smart, with only slight shelf wear to the majority of the volumes, with minor marks to the boards of 'My Brother Evelyn'. Dust wrappers are very smart, with sunning to the spines of 'Labels' and 'My Brother Evelyn' and edge wear to 'The World of'. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. book.

First Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. With the author's autograph signature on the fly-leaf.