WAUGH (EVELYN) The Holy Places, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 17 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, from an overall edition of 950 copies, title and frontispiece printed in red and black, frontispiece and 3 woodcut illustrations by Reynolds Stone, light damp-stain to upper margin throughout and on covers, publisher's red niger morocco, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., small 4to, Queen Anne Press, 1952; Love Amongst the Ruins, LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, this copy "out of series" (inked on limitation leaf), printed in red and black, illustrations (some after the author), publisher's buckram, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1953; together with 2 autograph letters signed ("E. Waugh", and "Evelyn"), and one letter by his wife Laura, addressed to Alan Pryce-Jones (5) "I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT MISS [MURIEL] SPARK EXCEPT THAT I QUIETLY ENJOY HER BOOKS" - Two letters from Waugh to Alan-Pryce Jones, one dated 22 August 1963 from Combe Florey House, mentions Muriel Spark ("... in no need of encouragement"), that he does occasionally write for the Spectator magazine "when there is some writer who seems to be getting too little or too much praise...", or when it relates to some "expensive book on Victorian painting or architecture which I want for my library...". The other, undated and written from Madresfield Court (home to the Lygon family, and inspiration for "Brideshead"), relates to a request from Pryce-Jones for some reminiscences, noting "I like the idea but at the moment can remember nothing of the smallest interest connected with my childhood...", but will try to come up with something, and asking to meet when next in London. Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000); by descent to the present owner.