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Andrew Brown, a collector in the United Kingdom, has acquired copy no. 2 of the limited edition of Love Among the Ruins(1953). Evelyn Waugh inscribed it to "Tina" in January 1963. "Tina" was Lady Christina McDonnell, daughter of Randal ("Ran"), 8th Earl of Antrim. She married Joseph Hoare of the banking family on 23 January 1963. The book is larger than the standard first edition and housed in a dark-green Morocco-leather slipcase, finished with original Queen Elizabeth II 2-1/2-pence postage stamps, apparently in honor of her coronation in 1953. The book has a similar finish. It is one of fifty copies of the deluxe edition printed on hand-made paper and distributed to friends of Evelyn Waugh.

Limited Editions A list of limited editions of fiction by Evelyn Waugh is available at Bookseller World.

New Penguin Edition of Evelyn Waugh Penguin Books is bringing out a new edition of Evelyn Waugh's works. Eight titles will be published on 26 May 2011, with eight more published on 4 August 2011. The titles appear below.

26 May 2011 4 August 2011 Rossetti Edmund Campion Decline and Fall Waugh in Abysssinia Labels Scoop Vile Bodies Mr Loveday's Little Outing & Other Early Stories Remote People Robbery Under Law Black Mischief Put Out More Flags Ninety-Two Days Brideshead Revisited A Handful of Dust When the Going Was Good

Two Photographs and a Letter Two photographs of Evelyn Waugh and one of his unpublished letters were offered for sale as part of the Roy Davids Collection at Bonhams in London on 29 March 2011. Details are available at http://www.bonhams.com/eur/sale/19386/. Search for lots 245-247. The first photo, by Mark Gerson, and the letter sold for £840 each.

Another Sale According to an article in The Telegraphon 16 February 2011, "a rare example of 19th-century, painted Gothic revival furniture that was once owned by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh has been sold by the Waugh family for £850,000. The Zodiac Settle, or bench, was designed by the cultish, opium-smoking architect William Burges in 1865." Betjeman acquired the settle in 1961 and gave it to Waugh. A high-resolution photograph of the settle is available at http://tinyurl.com/4rjmdx3.

Sale of Evill/Frost Collection On 15 June 2011, Sotheby's London will launch the sale of the "greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market." The Evill/Frost Collection was assembled by Evelyn Waugh's solicitor, Wilfred Evill, between 1925 and 1960 and then maintained by Honor Frost. The collection includes a number of paintings by Stanely Spencer, R.A. (1891- 1959), whom Waugh admired (see Diaries 743 and Letters 541). For details of the collection, please visit http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=45526

Audio Recordings of Waugh Novels Unabridged readings of ten of Evelyn Waugh's novels are available on CDs and as downloads. Recordings range from four hours, forty-six minutes (Decline and Fall) to eleven hours, thirty-two minutes (Brideshead Revisited), and the price of each recording is about £20. For details, please visit AudioGo.

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