BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. The First American Edition, frist printing, published September 1945, LIMITED TO 600 COPIES ONLY OF WHICH ONLY 450 WERE FOR SALE., printed before the first American trade edition. 8vo, publisher's original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine panel, In the original dustjacket. 351 pp. A very pleasing and well-preserved copy, the text-block still quite clean and fresh, hinges strong, the cloth unfaded and with very minimal mellowing. The jacket is complete, attractive and still in very nice condition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRECEDING THE TRADE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY 450 COPIES FOR SALE, ISSUED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE ENGLISH EDITION.
Waugh’s novel of the Machmain family was a departure in style for him and a highly successful one at that. The novel speaks of a world forever changed by war, tells an extraordinary love story and vividly depicts the conflicts between traditional religion and modern life. It is the first of Waugh's "Catholic Novels" and is now a classic. Both Time Magazine and Modern Library rank it as one of the top 100 novels of the century and it was the basis for what is still one of the most popular television miniseries of all time.