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Category Archives: First Editions
Roundup: A Major Auction and News from the Antipodes
–Auction house Bonham’s has scheduled the sale of several of Waugh’s books. These were presentation copies to F B Walker who worked at Chapman & Hall in the period of their publication. Bonham’s describes the importance of Walker to Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, Interviews, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Bonhams, Publishers Weekly, The Australian newspaper, The Guardian
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Charlie Watts’s Collection of Waughiana to be Auctioned
Christie’s has announced the sale of the book collection of Charlie Watts, late drummer of the Rolling Stones. Watts was not an ordinary book collector but, as described in Christie’s announcement, had a “deeply thoughtful” taste. This is well defined … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, First Editions, Items for Sale
Tagged Charlie Watts, Christie's, The Rolling Stones
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Mid-July Roundup
–Novelist, critic and literary biographer DJ Taylor in this month’s Literary Review writes about literary biographies. His own most recent efforts in this field are a revision and expansion of his biography of George Orwell originally published in 2003 and … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Biographies, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions, The Loved One
Tagged Charlie Watts, Literary Review, Movieweb, OurSundayVisitor, The Spectator
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Flag Day Roundup
–Author Irvine Welsh (best known for his novel Trainspotting) was interviewed in advance of an appearance at the Beyond the Pale Festival at Wicklow, Ireland, 10-12 June. This appeared in the Irish Examiner. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve always admired writers … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, First Editions, Items for Sale, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Irish Examiner, Irvine Welsh, John Atkinson Books, Malcolm Muggeridge, Protean Magazine, The New Republic
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Another Brideshead Anniversary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited in America in book format. A serialized version had been issued in four installments in November 1944-February 1945 in Town & Country magazine published in New York. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Book of the Month Club, Little Brown & Co
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Brideshead and Loving (More)
Duncan McLaren has just posted an interesting comparison between the two 1945 novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Henry Green’s Loving. This is quite different from the shorter Daily Telegraph article reported in a previous post. Duncan presents the comparison as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Henry Green, Robert Byron
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75th Anniversary of Brideshead Book Publication
The first book publication of Brideshead Revisited took place in London 75 years ago this week on 28 May 1945. In the period of slightly less than a year since Waugh had submitted his typescript to Chapman & Hall in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Newspapers
Tagged Book Society, Chapman & Hall, Sunday Times
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More Letters
Bonhams the auction house has announced another batch of letters that will be of interest to Waugh enthusiasts. See yesterday’s post. These are letters written to Waugh by Ronald Knox in the period 1944-57. They are not in the BL’s … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Items for Sale, Letters, London
Tagged Bonhams, Christopher Sykes, Ronald Knox
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“The Loved One” Anniversary Marked
The Pilot, newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese pf Boston, has published an article marking the 70th anniversary of the US publication of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. This is by Russell Shaw who explains that the book was published … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, First Editions, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Russell Shaw, The Pilot (Boston)
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A Diary, a Legacy, and a First Edition
The long-running “Londoner’s Diary” column of the Evening Standard has been relaunched as “The Londoner” and has a new author, Charlotte Edwardes, who writes her introductory article with a nod to Evelyn Waugh and several of his friends: On my … Continue reading
