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WAUGH (EVELYN)
The Life of The Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("Evelyn Waugh") on the title-page, Chapman and Hall, 1959

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

The Life of The Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("Evelyn Waugh") on the title-page, frontispiece portrait, publisher's blue cloth, a couple of small spots on upper cover, pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, extremities of spine slightly frayed), 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1959

Footnotes

"In an age of subjective fiction Evelyn Waugh stands out as an objective novelist. He is not given to self-analysis.... His biography of Ronald Knox demanded and elicited a deeper level of portraiture" (Patrick Balfour, article for the Sunday Times, 13 September 1964).

Provenance: Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976). Balfour was himself of course a distinguished biographer, notably for his Atatürk: The Rebirth of a Nation, 1964.

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