Lot 269
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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. 8°. Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, half tone plates. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (small white stain to upper cover, some light staining to lower cover). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 29 PRESENTATION COPIES, this copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Bridget [Grant, Waugh's sister-in-law] with love from Evelyn 8th October 1959."
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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. 8°. Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, half tone plates. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (small white stain to upper cover, some light staining to lower cover). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 29 PRESENTATION COPIES, this copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Bridget [Grant, Waugh's sister-in-law] with love from Evelyn 8th October 1959."

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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. 8°. Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, half tone plates. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (small white stain to upper cover, some light staining to lower cover). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 29 PRESENTATION COPIES, this copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Bridget [Grant, Waugh's sister-in-law] with love from Evelyn 8th October 1959."
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