Ronald Knox
Chapman & Hall, 1959.
First edition. Deluxe issue, one of 29 copies, printed on superior paper for presentation by the author. Original publisher's brown buckram with top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper, "For Bruce Walker with kindest regards from Evelyn Waugh 8th October 1959". A fine copy.
Bruce Walker was the production manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. "It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy" - Martin Stannard (Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966)
Stock ID: 44537
£6,500.00
