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Lot 243
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
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[WAUGH, Evelyn, his copy]. DOUGLAS, Norman (1868-1952). Alone. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1921.
8vo. Original publishers' brown cloth (upper joint starting). Provenance: Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) English writer (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, EVELYN WAUGH'S COPY, with his bookplate. The protagonist in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, arrives at Oxford after World War I with only two books, one of which was Douglas's South Wind, published just a few years earlier than Alone.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation