Helena

London: Chapman & Hall, 1950.

First Edition, first impression. Original blue cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket with Daily Mail Book of the Month wraparound band, also excellent. Light soiling to backstrip of jacket, else fine. Waugh's historical novel on the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I.