WAUGH, EVELYN. The Holy Places. London: The Queen Anne Press 1952. Square 8vo, original red niger morocco, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and some edges of sides with natural discoloration, pictorial dust jacket (partially faded, a few small holes in spine), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, no. 15 of 50 specially bound numbered copies signed by Waugh and the illustrator Reynolds Stone, of an edition of 950, illustrated with wood engravings by Stone. Waugh was so disturbed by the misprints in this (which appeared as a Christmas book) edition that a "corrected" edition was issued the following year (with the title page dated 1953). | Christie's

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WAUGH, EVELYN. The Holy Places. London: The Queen Anne Press 1952. Square 8vo, original red niger morocco, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and some edges of sides with natural discoloration, pictorial dust jacket (partially faded, a few small holes in spine), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, no. 15 of 50 specially bound numbered copies signed by Waugh and the illustrator Reynolds Stone, of an edition of 950, illustrated with wood engravings by Stone. Waugh was so disturbed by the misprints in this (which appeared as a Christmas book) edition that a "corrected" edition was issued the following year (with the title page dated 1953).

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WAUGH, EVELYN. The Holy Places. London: The Queen Anne Press 1952. Square 8vo, original red niger morocco, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and some edges of sides with natural discoloration, pictorial dust jacket (partially faded, a few small holes in spine), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, no. 15 of 50 specially bound numbered copies signed by Waugh and the illustrator Reynolds Stone, of an edition of 950, illustrated with wood engravings by Stone. Waugh was so disturbed by the misprints in this (which appeared as a Christmas book) edition that a "corrected" edition was issued the following year (with the title page dated 1953).