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WAUGH, Evelyn.

Basil Seal Rides Again or The Rake's Regress.

Frontispiece by Kathleen Hale.

Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1963

Stock code: 67862

Price: £1,250 Currency Conversion

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 750 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf, this an out-of-series presentation copy inscribed by the author, "a belated wedding present for Bertie from Evelyn" and with a slash through the portion of the limitation that reads "This is No…".

Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, blue endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. Boards a little mottled, faint toning to edges of contents. An excellent copy.

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