The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox; Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII
London: Chapman and Hall, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Top of boards lightly bumped, else fine, fading to spine of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. Item #273
AN EVOCATIVE PORTRAIT OF FIFTY YEARS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICISM First edition of Evelyn Waugh's authorized biography of his friend and fellow convert, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and nine plates.
Ronald Knox entered the Church in 1917 as part of a wave of British literary conversions that included Maurice Baring, Oscar Wilde, Robert Hugh Benson, and G. K. Chesterton. Monsignor Ronald Knox died on August 24, 1957 and was buried after a Solemn Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral with panegyric preached by Father Martin D'Arcy, S.J.
This life consists of Book I: Laughter and the Love of Friends, Book II: Keeping an Armageddon, Book III: The Hidden Stream. Appendix (a chronological list of the chief published works of Ronald Knox), a Bibliography, and an Index. With slip for the "Ronald Knox Memorial Prize" slip tipped in before page 13, not in subsequent U. S. edition. Ahearn 034c. Menendez, The Road to Rome, 678. A handsome copy.
Price: $65.00