Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Boston: Little, Brown & co., 1945. First American Edition. Pp, 351. Red cloth covers lettered in black, in original pictorial dust jacket designed by Lester M. Peterson. A near fine copy.

Waugh’s classic novel on the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, set against the backdrop of Brideshead Castle between the 1920’s and early 1940’s.