Brideshead Revisited [Waugh's biographer Selina Hasting's copy]

Evelyn Waugh

Published by London Chapman and Hall 1945, 1945

About this Item

First edition owned and annotated by Evelyn Waugh's biographer Selina Hastings, with the author's signature mounted on the title page. Publisher's cloth binding, spine faded, light marks to boards, internally complete but many leaves exhibit short closed oblique tears at the head and occasionally tail of the leaves - seemingly a production flaw. Mounted on the title-page is the author's signature, 'Evelyn Waugh', probably cut from a letter; adhesive paste showing through on the verso of the leaf. Ticket of the Anglophile 'Holliday Bookshop, New York' to the tail of the final pastedown. This copy was owned and annotated by Lady Selina Hastings whose biography of Waugh appeared in 1994. Hastings has annotated the text with numerous marginal dots next to the text throughout and writes thus about the novel in her biography 'There are two main themes in Brideshead Revisited, the first, that of the working out of a divine plan in the restoration and creation of faith, encompassing the second, the infatuation of Charles Ryder for an entire noble family, the Flytes. Brideshead is undoubtedly a great novel; with a fair claim to be Waugh's finest achievement. in Brideshead that he engages with the issues that lay nearest his heart.' Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item. Seller Inventory # 7065

Bibliographic Details

Title: Brideshead Revisited [Waugh's biographer ...

Publisher: London Chapman and Hall 1945

Publication Date: 1945