Warne's Bijou Books: Card Tricks Without Sleight of Hand or Magic Made Easy de Professor Hoffmann - 1885

First American edition (from English sheets). Small 4to. Color frontispiece illustration by Kathleen Hale. Author's dedicatory letter. Original blue buckram, gilt stamped spine and upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut. Clear acetate dust jacket (closed tear). Very good. 49 pages. Number 52 of 1,000 numbered copies "for sale in the United States of America", signed by Waugh on the limitation page. Originally published in Esquire magazine in 1962. Dedicated to Ann Fleming (Mrs. Ian Fleming).

Boston:: Little, Brown,, [1963].. First edition; No. 867 of 1000 copies for the USA, signed by Evelyn Waugh.. publisher's cloth in acetate jacket. . Almost imperceptible fading to the top 1" of the front board; otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo,. Frontispiece by Kathleen Hale..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Fine, lacking the original unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. Waugh's last published work, which sees the return of the now-elderly anti-hero from *Black Mischief*.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in about fine original unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. Waugh's last published work, which sees the return of the now-elderly anti-hero from *Black Mischief*.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near fine/fine. Signed limited edition of Basil Seal Rides Again by Evelyn Waugh.. Large octavo, 49pp. Full blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Gilt illustration of a man on a Pegasus to front cover. Solid text block, top edge of covers lightly sunned. With the publisher's acetate dust jacket, small loss to rear panel, otherwise fine. Color frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. From a limited edition of 1,000 copies, this being number 992. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was a renowned English novelist known for his distinctive satirical style. Educated at Oxford, Waugh gained early recognition with his debut novel, "Decline and Fall" (1928), and went on to produce a series of critically acclaimed works, including "A Handful of Dust" (1934) and "Brideshead Revisited" (1945).

London: Chapman & Hall. 1963. Frontispiece illustration by Kathleen Hale. Number 45 of 750 numbered copies signed by the author. Faint handling to boards; very near fine without the glassine dustwrapper. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. Light spotting to cloth. Lacking original acetate. Near Fine. Color frontispiece. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by Waugh. This copy additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Alec Waugh in 1963: "For Atalanta [Arlen]/As a Christmas card/with love/from the author's brother."