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Price: US$387.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's Original blue cloth with bright gilt title to spine and in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with a little rubbing to outer edges,mainly to head and tail of the spine and with a couple of miniscule closed tears to the head of spine.Price clipped.Laid in at the front of the book is an inscribed slip by Evelyn Waugh which reads '' For Jack with warmest regards Evelyn 8th October 1959 '' dated of course the same year as this book was first published.To the rear of the signed slip is a book auction catalogue entry for 'Basil Seal Rides Again'The book has some foxing present along both the top edge and to the fore-edge.The internal text block remains in clean condition and there are no turned corners etc and it comes complete with the Ronald Knox Memorial Prize Tipped in to the verso of the Preface and printed in blue.This is a great opportunity to acquire a laid in but personal note from Evelyn Waugh,one of the finest Writers of the 20th Century.8vo 358pp First Edition 2nd Impression [1959]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. The Life of Ronald Knox. Chapman & Hall, London, 1959.
Price: US$940.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth hard covers, in unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author, without further inscription, beneath his name on the title-page. Covers are moderately bumped and soiled; jacket is edge-worn, and the red title is faded from the spine. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Still a neat and sound copy. Portrait frontispiece. Ronald Knox Memorial Prize notice slip is tipped to blank page facing Preface. Index. 358pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada