Author: WAUGH, EVELYN
Title: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1945. First US Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition (so indicated with "Printed in U.S.A." on rear flap, and unpriced front flap), dated 1945 on title and copyright pages, which preceded the American trade editions of 1946, thus making this copy a first US edition. Evelyn Waugh's brilliant novel tells of the Flyte family of England, traditional practicing Catholics in a Church of England world. Book-of-the-Month Club leaflet is laid in. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling and illustration on cover and spine in black. Tan jacket with Lester M. Peterson drawing of a couple lounging near Brideshead Castle's elaborate fountain. --- With prior owner's signature to front paste-down and evidence of sticker removal to front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Dust jacket with conspicuous area of chipping at head of spine, a couple of additional tears to back panel, else bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; Book Club Edition; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (8), 351 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature
Title: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1945. First US Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition (so indicated with "Printed in U.S.A." on rear flap, and unpriced front flap), dated 1945 on title and copyright pages, which preceded the American trade editions of 1946, thus making this copy a first US edition. Evelyn Waugh's brilliant novel tells of the Flyte family of England, traditional practicing Catholics in a Church of England world. Book-of-the-Month Club leaflet is laid in. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling and illustration on cover and spine in black. Tan jacket with Lester M. Peterson drawing of a couple lounging near Brideshead Castle's elaborate fountain. --- With prior owner's signature to front paste-down and evidence of sticker removal to front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Dust jacket with conspicuous area of chipping at head of spine, a couple of additional tears to back panel, else bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; Book Club Edition; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (8), 351 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature
Price: US$ 114.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87218
- Book number: 87218