Item #900175 Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Evelyn Waugh.

Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1953.
With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands Including the Author's. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red cloth over thick beveled boards, gilt decoration front board, gilt top-edge, deckled fore- and bottom-edges, 49pp, illus. Fine. Item #900175

#299 of a Limited Edition of 350 copies of which 300 are for sale, signed by the author on limitation page. In this dystopian romance, Mile Plastic, who works at a popular state-sponsored euthanasia center, and Clara, whose ambitions to become a dancer lead her to submit to sterilization and resultant beardedness, encounter love. A crisp, clean, highly collectible copy, fine.

Price: $650.00