Published by Cassell, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1948. 269 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Front endpaper has been removed. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
On one side of the card. Dimensions, 8.5 x 11 cms. Very good. Neat inscription reading 'For Charles Wilson | with Alec Waugh's best wishes | July. 31. 1948 /.'.
Published by Cassell and Co Ltd, London, 1956
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with loss, spine slightly browned. Not price clipped (16s), previous owner's bookplate to ffep, slight yellowing to page block, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 550pp. To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour splashed brochures of travel agents, an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the Caribbean. Bradshaw found Santa Marta a smouldering volcano. Alec Waugh (1898-1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better known Evelyn Waugh.
Published by On letterhead of the Easton Court Hotel Chagford Devon. Undated
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
1p., 4to. In fair condition, on aged paper, with creasing and wear at head. Written in Waugh's close, distinctive hand. Reads: 'Dear Miss Marshall-Hall | It was nice of you to write. I didn't go on the Invalids tour this year. It can't have been the same thing without Milhanger. | Sincerely Yrs | Alec Waugh /'. The reference is presumably to Milhanger, the Surrey country house designed by Harold Falkner.
Published by 28 January ; on letterhead of Chapman & Hall Ltd 11 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London WC2, 1921
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
12mo: 2 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. If the recipient visited on the Saturday he would have found that the Waughs were away: 'My wife was developing mumps in London & I was kicking a football. Would tha tit had been any other day.' He thanks him for 'the review of Strachey', which he read with much interest, if partial agreement': 'I think mystic experience lies beyond my compass, & therefore I can hardly judge'. Quotes 'our friend Moore' (the philosopher G. E. Moore?) on the subject.