London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with mild soiling and edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. "MARTYRDOM WAS IN THE AIR OF DOUAI" First edition of Waugh's novelistic biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit, doomed from the moment... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First American edition. Octavo, original tan cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Staining to joints and hinges of book, wear to spine ends of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "FOR JIM POWERS/WITH WARM REGARDS/FROM/EVELYN WAUGH" First American edition of Waugh's historical novel, published in..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Top of boards lightly bumped, else fine, fading to spine of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. AN EVOCATIVE PORTRAIT OF FIFTY YEARS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICISM First edition of Evelyn Waugh's authorized biography of his friend and... More