Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh [FIRST EDITION] 1946 • 9th Print • Little Brown & Co.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

FIRST EDITION [1946] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

9th printing / Feb. 1946.

True trade first edition.  Hardcover sans original dust jacket. 

Clean, tight, vintage hardcover bound in blue cloth in very good condition. 

Some mild shelf wear to boards; faint spot of sticker ghosting on rear cloth.  Pages are clean, bright and read good as new. 

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.