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Special Collections Online Newsletter_42.1 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A Handful of Dust When the Going Was Good Two Photographs and a Letter Two photographs of Evelyn Waugh and one of his unpublished letters were offered for sale as part of the Roy Davids Collection at Bonhams in London on 29 March 2011.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. Googling "Evelyn Waugh" The Google Books NGram Viewer indicates how often a given phrase occurs in a corpus of books over a number of years. file:////uol.le.ac.uk/...%20Documents/Evelyn%20Waugh/Evelyn%20Waugh%20Studies/Newsletters/March%2014%20additions/Newsletter_42_1.html[26/03/2014 10:54:35].
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    Evelyn Waugh in his library at Piers Court In 1950. This photograph by Douglas Glass appeared in "Portrait Gallery" ln the Sunday T;m~s, January 7, 1951. Waugh had recently published Hel~nQ (1950), and he was about to start writing M~n at Arms (1952), the first volume of the trilogy that became Sword o/Honour (1965). C J. C. C. Glass "A Handful of Mischief" New Essays on Evelyn Waugh Edited by Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater, and John Howard Wilson Madison· Teaneck Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Co-publisbed with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rlpgbooks.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright C 2011 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or me<:hanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data on file under LC#2010016424 ISBN: 978-1-61147-048-2 (d. : alk. paper) eISBN: 978-1-61147-049-9 e"" The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIINISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America To Alexander Waugh, who keeps the show on the road Contents Acknowledgments 9 Abbreviations 11 Introduction ROBERT MURRAY DAVIS 13 Evelyn Waugh, Bookman RICHARD W.
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