ONE OF ONLY 350 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH
WAUGH, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. Slim octavo, original gilt-stamped red cloth, uncut, original printed glassine. $1500.
Signed limited first edition, number 109 of only 350 copies signed by Evelyn Waugh.
"Love Among the Ruins is a nasty little tale set in a dystopia of the near future, interesting… as a reflection of the author's prejudices, his hatred of 'progress,' of politicians, psychoanalysis, abstract art, functional architecture, and all branches of the Welfare State" (Hastings, 553). Published the same year as the first trade edition.
Book fine, only minor creasing to fragile original glassine. A beautiful copy.