Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited, 1945, first edition

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Evelyn Waugh


Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945


FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original red cloth, DUST-JACKET (priced at "10s.6d. net" on front flap), binding slightly faded, dust-jacket with one or two chips at extremities


First edition of Waugh's acclaimed novel, a nostalgic evocation of a fleeting age of English aristocracy.

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