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Piers Court for Sale
Waugh’s country house in Gloucestershire has been listed for sale according to Country Life magazine. The listing agent is Knight, Frank and the asking price is £3 million. The article by Penny Churchill explains that the current owners, who have lived … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Robbery Under Law, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Anna Temkin, Country Life, Daily Post (Wales), Knight Frank, Penny Churchill, Piers Court, Plas Dulas, R M Dawkins, The Times
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Long-Missing Waugh Letter for Sale
Peter Harrington Booksellers are offering the original of a 24 January 1958 letter from Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford. The letter was published in full in the Christopher Sykes biography (Penguin, p. 525) but had gone missing when Charlotte Mosley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Charlotte Mosley, Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Peter Harrington Booksellers
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Waugh Letter to French Translator
London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a  translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jean Dauven, Peter Harrington Booksellers, translations
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Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers
Abebooks has announced its highest priced books for 2017. A set of Waugh’s war trilogy came in at #16 and sold for $12,500. Here is the seller’s description: First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Abebooks. J F Powers
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Waviana in the Book Trade
A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel  The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Bibliophilia, Film, Items for Sale, The Loved One
Tagged Cambridge University Library Soecial Colections, John Gielgud, Royal Books, Terry Southern, William Burges
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Decline & Fall DVD to be Released in USA
Acorn TV will begin USA sales of the DVD of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall later this month. This is the BBC’s adaptation that was broadcast in the UK earlier this year. Amazon.com has announced availability of the DVD effective 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Items for Sale, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, DVD
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Waugh Exhibition Catalogue Available Online
The catalogue of E.W. Pinxit: An Exhibition of the Graphic Art of Evelyn Waugh is available online and may be downloaded in pdf format from this link. It is written by Mark Everett with the assistence of Ed Maggs and Alice … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Items for Sale, London
Tagged art exhibit, catalogue, Maggs Bros booksellers, Mark Everett
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Donald Trump, Pope Francis and Rex Mottram in Vanity Fair
Paul Elie, “pontificating” (his pun) in Vanity Fair magazine, writes of the possible results of this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis. He begins by comparing their respective elections: How strange is this: a group of 115 unelected celibate men … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Newspapers
Tagged Donald Trump, Mr Porter, Paul Elie, Pope Francis, Vanity Fair
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Waugh and The Queen Anne Press
A recent TLS article in its weekly back page NB column is devoted to the Queen Anne Press. This was written in response to the publication of a special issue of the Book Collector magazine devoted to Ian Fleming. The QAP was … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Items for Sale, Newspapers, The Holy Places
Tagged Ian Fleming, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, TLS
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Penguin UK Issue TV Tie-in Edition of Decline and Fall
Penguin Books have announced the publication of a TV tie-in edition of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. This will be issued later this week on 23 March 2017. Aside from a cover photo of Jack Whitehall looking rather clueless in … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Television
Tagged Chapman and Hall, Penguin Books, TV Tie-in Edition
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