8vo, red cloth with black titles, 232pp. Boards show mottling and discoloration to top edge, endpapers toned with ownership plate. Price clipped dust jacket shows a few soil marks, toned spine, light chipping to edges. Text clean, binding firm. Short essays and meditations on great literature, from the Ancient Greeks to Hillaire Belloc, by the British Monsignor Ronald Knox, Biblical translator, theologian, author, friend and associate of the novelist Evelyn Waugh.

A handsome copy in mylar.

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Bookseller: Heaven-Haven Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: B-107
Title: Literary Distractions
Author: Ronald Knox
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Date Published: 1958
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Catholica - Literature; Essays & Literary Criticism;

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Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.

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