The Life of Hilaire Belloc
London, Hollis and Carter, 1957 [first edition].
Octavo, xvi, 552 pages plus 17 pages of plates.
Cloth slightly flecked; edges, endpapers and occasional margins throughout the book are a little foxed; ownership details on both flyleaves; a few ink checkmarks to the bibliography; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed, marked and chipped with slight loss.
Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed by Belloc to the previous owner; it is one page, octavo, on 'GK's Weekly' letterhead. It is dated 10 August 1936, and is written in reply to a letter sent to Belloc after the death of Chesterton (in January 1936); 'naturally we must notice the loss of so big a man, all who loved him will wish to see his work carried on until it is inevitably appreciated as it deserves'. Two related newspaper clippings are also in the book.
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