Evelyn Waugh
117 copies for sale · $20–$28,000 · 30 first editions · 7 signed
Notable copies for sale
Decline and Fall (first edition, signed) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£3,750
Work Suspended (first edition, signed) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£825
Basil Seal Rides Again; The Rake's Regress (first edition, signed) — Bauer Rare Books$275
Vile Bodies (first edition) — Burnside Rare Books$28,000
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing And Other Sad Stories (first edition) — Lorne Bair Rare Books$2,200
Sword of Honour. The Trilogy which includes: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unco (signed) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£1,650
BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake's Regress (signed) — Kay Craddock Antiquarian BooksellerA$600
Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (first edition) — Churchill Book Collector$1,550
Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£875
Sword of Honour. A Final Version of the Novels Men at Arms 1952 , Officers and Gentlemen 1 (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£650
Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender. Sword of Honour Trilogy (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£250
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (first edition) — Back Creek Books$250
Works on the market
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED5 copies · £83–£12,000
SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE4 copies · £45–£12,500
VILE BODIES4 copies · £33–£850
PUT OUT MORE FLAGS4 copies · $43–$98
Ronald Knox3 copies · £45–£6,500
THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD3 copies · £78–£6,000
A LITTLE LEARNING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY - THE EARLY YEARS3 copies · $53–$73
A HANDFUL OF DUST2 copies · £34–£19,500
Decline and Fall2 copies · £6,500–£9,500
A LITTLE LEARNING2 copies · £53–£5,000
Edmund Campion2 copies · £4,000–£4,500
NINETY-TWO DAYS2 copies · £58–£3,750
BLACK MISCHIEF2 copies · $47–$575
DECLINE AND FALL; Franklin Library2 copies · $273
HELENA2 copies · $34–$173
OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN2 copies · £100–£148
The Loved One An Anglo-American Tragedy2 copies · $20–$125
MONSIGNOR RONALD KNOX: FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD AND PROTONOTARY APOSTOLIC TO HIS 2 copies · $98–$103
MEN AT ARMS2 copies · $38–$98
Market context
60 copies of Evelyn Waugh's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $60 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
Recent auction results (hammer prices, premiums not included):
Helena, first edition, 1950; and others; and 36 others, largely mid 20th century literatur (forum, 2026-07-02)£300
Scoop, 1938; Unconditional Surrender, signed, 1961; and 5 others by Waugh, inc. jacket to (bonhams, 2026-07-01)£1,700
A Handful of Dust, FIRST EDITION, Jonathan Cape, [1931] (bonhams, 2026-07-01)£7,000
Black Mischief, limited edition, 1932 (dominic winter, 2026-06-01)£120
The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, first edition, with an Autograph Letter signed (forum, 2026-04-23)£280
Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson, first edition, 1939. (forum, 2026-04-23)£120
Listings aggregated from rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide; refreshed continually. Prices are seller asking prices unless marked as auction results.