Evelyn Waugh. Stated first edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Other than former owner signature on flyleaf, no markings or writing found in this well preserved edition, 339 pp. Has original price $3.75 on inside flap of jacket.
*From the estate of artist Jack Lockhart, New York.
Evelyn Waugh — Officers and Gentlemen (Stated First American Edition, Little, Brown and Company, 1955). First American edition in Very Good+ condition with the original unclipped dust jacket (priced $3.75 on the inside flap). Blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; 339 pp. Aside from a former owner’s signature on the flyleaf, the textblock is clean and unmarked. A well-preserved mid-century US edition of the second volume of Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy — ideal for collectors of 20th-century British fiction, military satire, and Evelyn Waugh first editions.
