KNOX Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald. A Selection from the occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox. Edited by Evelyn Waugh [with Preface]. 550 COPIES WERE PRINTED; THIS COPY WITH SIGNED EPHEMERA AND P.C. WRITTEN BY EVELYN WAUGH. Dropmore Press,, 1949.

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Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black; maroon buckram, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY. NO. 185). WITH THE FOLLOWING ITEMS LOOSELY INSERTED: A) PAPER SLIP SIGNED BY KNOX MOUNTED ON LIMITATION; b) POSTCARD FROM EVELYN WAUGH'S RESIDENCE AT COMBE FLOREY HOUSE, TAUNTON WITH THE FOLLOWING IN WAUGH'S HAND: 'An Addition to the Knox collection'; C) PRINTED BOOKLET (1977) OF A WEDDING SERMON PREACHED BY KNOX IN TAUNTON AT THE MARRIAGE OF HUBERT HOWARD AND LELIA CAETANI, 1951; D) PRINTED CHRISTMAS CARD SIGNED BY ARCHBISHOP DEREK WORLOCK WITH HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION; E) FACSIMILE OF 2-PAGE LETTER TO KNOX FROM G.K. CHESTERTON; f) TWO RELEVANT CUTTINGS. Collects eleven sermons selected and edited by Waugh with lengthy Preface.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

KNOX, Ronald ~(Evelyn Waugh). A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox. Edited by Evelyn Waugh. LIMITED EDITION: no.41/50 copies. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dropmore Press, London, 1949.

Price: US$774.86 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: ~TITLE CONTINUES: sometime Scholar of Balliol College and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Domestic Prelate to His Holiness the Pope. ~Original Full Brown Niger Morocco, decorative gilt title to front board, gilt title to spine, raised bands, a little slight mottling to leather over boards. Top edges gilt, others deckled. Headbands.Text printed on laid paper. Title page printed in red & black. No ownership marks. Original cream handmade paper dustwrapper, completely intact, title printed in red and black to front, title in black to spine, printer's insignia to rear. Minor browning to dustwrapper spine, light foxing to dustwrapper front and rear. With original slipcase, printed title label to slipcase spine, including handwritten no.'41'. Slipcase slightly worn on spine and at entrance. One of a limited edition of 550 copies, of which only 50 were specially bound and signed. The signed copies are very scarce, particularly with both the dustwrapper and the slipcase.~Robust packaging. Size: 102, (4)pp. 27 x 21 cm

Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn; KNOX, Ronald. A SELECTION FROM THE OCCASIONAL SERMONS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX: sometime Scholar of Balliol College and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Domestic Prelate to His Holiness the Pope. Edited by Evelyn Waugh.. Dropmore Press, 1949.

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Description: First edition, deluxe issue. Number 14 of only 50 copies (from a total edition of 550 copies), bound in publisher's Niger morocco and signed by Knox. Top edge gilt others uncut, in buff dustwrapper printed in black and red, bottom edge rough cut. A fine copy in a defective dustwrapper, lacking portions to the spine and with several closed tears. A "purely personal selection" of Knox's sermons, selected by Waugh who also contributes a preface.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom