About the House by Auden, W. H - 1965

Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; cream-colored pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.50 Near Fine (thin line of sunning to top cover, dusty top edge, neat gift inscription to front fly-leaf); Very Good or better jacket with two closed tears and associated creasing to front panel and light rubbing to toe of spine, but no chips or losses. McIlvaine A70b. Jasen 69a. Diverse collection of short stories featuring assorted Drones, The Oldest Member and Ukridge, and including "Bramley Is So Bracing," the final story Wodehouse published in the Strand, first collected in the American edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine… Read More

London: Methuen, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-. First Impression ("First Published in 1932") of a scarce early Wodehouse title, without the dust jacket. Small 8vo: [4],155,[1],8[publisher's catalog]. Original French blue cloth stamped in black, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. About Fine (fore-edge spotted), tight, square and bright, an excellent, collectible copy. McIlvaine A46. Jasen 47. Adapted from Wodehouse's play, Good Morning, Bill. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Duckworth, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good+. First Impression of this omnibus edition, collecting Waugh's best travel dispatches. Demy 8vo (216 x 135mm): 318pp, with color portrait frontispiece of Waugh aged 26 by Henry Lamb and folding map of British Guiana tipped in facing p. 196. Publisher's canary yellow cloth lettered in dark blue, illustrated dust priced 15/-. Near Fine or better (spine ends crimped, dust-soiled edges); Very Good or better jacket (tape remnants along reverse edges). Davis XX. During the 1930s, Waugh traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and South America. In 1930, he attended the coronation of the Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, returning there five years later as a correspondent for the Daily Mail to cover the Italian invasion from a pro-Mussolini standpoint. Between these visits, his sojourns in South America included an arduous trek from British Guiana into Brazil. Throughout this time he had no permanent base in England, staying in hotels and at friends'… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1963. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression ("First published . . . 1963), in a variant sky-blue binding, spine stamped in black. Small 8vo: 189,[1]pp. Fine, square and tight, in a Fine first issue (list of 32 Autograph Edition titles on the back panel, beginning with "Hot Water" and ending with "Ukridge") price-clipped dust jacket. Mcilvaine A86b. Preceded by the U.S., published earlier the same year. The ninth Jeeves novel, sequel to Code of the Woosters (1938). Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

New York: New Directions, 1979. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition of one of the playwright's autobiographical memory plays, treating the central figure's homosexuality more openly than "The Glass Menagerie," in its day, was able. 8vo: [10],116,[6]pp. Publisher's olive-green coarsely woven V cloth, spine lettered in gold, pictorial dust jacket priced $9.50. An exceptional example (apparently unread), tightly bound and clean throughout. Crandell A46.I.a. Set in a once-respectable but now run-down boarding house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, at 722 Toulouse Street, the address that was home to Williams in the late 1930s. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; cream-colored pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.50 Near Fine (thin line of sunning to top cover, dusty top edge, neat gift inscription to front fly-leaf); Very Good or better jacket with two closed tears and associated creasing to front panel and light rubbing to toe of spine, but no chips or losses. McIlvaine A70b. Jasen 69a. Diverse collection of short stories featuring assorted Drones, The Oldest Member and Ukridge, and including "Bramley Is So Bracing," the final story Wodehouse published in the Strand, first collected in the American edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine… Read More

London: Methuen, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-. First Impression ("First Published in 1932") of a scarce early Wodehouse title, without the dust jacket. Small 8vo: [4],155,[1],8[publisher's catalog]. Original French blue cloth stamped in black, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. About Fine (fore-edge spotted), tight, square and bright, an excellent, collectible copy. McIlvaine A46. Jasen 47. Adapted from Wodehouse's play, Good Morning, Bill. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of this forerunner of the Jack Aubrey series. 8vo: 256pp. Fine publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; about Fine (lightly rubbed with no loss) first-state dust jacket, priced 15s, without a trace of fading to spine panel and very uncommon thus. Cunningham A7a. One of two historical novels O'Brian wrote for juveniles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1963. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression ("First published . . . 1963), in a variant sky-blue binding, spine stamped in black. Small 8vo: 189,[1]pp. Fine, square and tight, in a Fine first issue (list of 32 Autograph Edition titles on the back panel, beginning with "Hot Water" and ending with "Ukridge") price-clipped dust jacket. Mcilvaine A86b. Preceded by the U.S., published earlier the same year. The ninth Jeeves novel, sequel to Code of the Woosters (1938). Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

New York: New Directions, 1979. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition of one of the playwright's autobiographical memory plays, treating the central figure's homosexuality more openly than "The Glass Menagerie," in its day, was able. 8vo: [10],116,[6]pp. Publisher's olive-green coarsely woven V cloth, spine lettered in gold, pictorial dust jacket priced $9.50. An exceptional example (apparently unread), tightly bound and clean throughout. Crandell A46.I.a. Set in a once-respectable but now run-down boarding house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, at 722 Toulouse Street, the address that was home to Williams in the late 1930s. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes… Read More