Decline and Fall

Penguin, 1967. Reprint. Paperback book. Good/No jacket. Cover has some mild scuffing around edges and the spine is tanned with scuffing around edges. Pages and inside covers are tanned. For more information on our condition gradings, see Terms of Sale below.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc, 1929-01-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. First Edition stated; this would be the first American edition, published by Doubleday in 1929. Dust jacket is missing. Pages are clean, with the red tint at top of text block fading, and deckled edges showing age toning. Blue cloth boards show wear to… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962, 1962. REVISED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE AND A PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., illustrated with plates after Waugh, inscribed on the front blank endleaf "For Patrick [Balfour] with regards from Evelyn", publisher's original gilt lettered blue cloth binding, with the DJ, not price clipped, minor foxing to endleaves otherwise NEAR FINE/VG. Provenance:… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1928. A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1928. A very good copy with sunning to the spine with some light wear and a little chipping to the spine tips, a little spotting to the contents and crease to page 81. SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh in his elaborate hand without dedication.… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. F printing. Trade Paperback. GOOD. Tight, bright, clean and square. Tiny bumps to bottom corners and light rubbing to cover edges. 2 pages with underlining293 pages, 5x7.5x.5" "Subtitled 'A Novel of Many manners," Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the ' heathen idol' of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of… Read more about this item

1st US edition, board rub, spine fade

Eyre Methuen, UK, 1978. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fine. Book First printing of the original text which was edited prior to the first edition. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Prior Bookseller sticker or stamp. Edges slightly foxed and browned.. ISBN:… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1928. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.288. Octavo. Illustrated novelette. Publisher's snake skin-effect cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper correctly priced at 7/6. Both book and jacket are used; flyleaf has two small 'file' numbers, rear inner joint cracked, general handling and wear, jacket with some chips and a long tear along front joint… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. First revised edition of Waugh's first published novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. Revised Edition. Octavo (5.5" x 8"), 252 pp. Six black and white illustrations by the author. White dust jacket with text in dark green and the price "18s net" on bottom edge of front flap. Blue cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine.… Read more about this item

The Gresham Publishing Company ; London., 1111. Presumed first printing thus. Undated. . Hard. Good-. 16mo. 6 1/4. Portrait frontispiece.. Good-. Lacking dust jacket. Publishers lightly faded cloth with gilt lettering and tooling to front and spine. Spine was very faded. A little darkened and white spotted. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. General wear and marking on covers.… Read more about this item

Back Bay Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Writing inside.

Paperback. Very Good.

Penguin, 1973-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1.5228 in x 17.5127 in x 10.9137 in. Penguin Books 1973 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm. Minor foxing to cover.

216pp. Good clean copy. Penguin 65. Slight wear to spine and browning of pages.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1928. Spine extremes of book have been professionally restored. Small four digit number to front free endpaper. The scarce first edition/first state (with the proper names on pp. 168-169) of the author's first book bound in the publisher's original black and red "swirled" boards, stamped in gold. With the five drawings by… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall LTD, 1928. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Evelyn Waugh. A first impression copy of this entertaining novel by Evelyn Waugh, an association copy from the library of the lover of the author. First edition, first impression, first state, with "Martin Gaythorne-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" unchanged on pages 168 and 169.In the original… Read more about this item

Boston: Little , Brown, 1956. Wraps have light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Everymans Library, 1993. Ex school library copy with remains of paper label on f/ep and a small ink stamp on top edge of text block. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel, originally published in 1928. New introduction by Frank Kermode. Issued by the publisher as part of the "Millennium Library" which… Read more about this item

Back Bay Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Good.