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La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue
by [New Mexico] Chavez, Fray Angelico
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Paterson, NJ: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. SIGNED. 134pp. Octavo [22 cm] Wine colored cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. There is a bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. In a worn price-clipped dust jacket. The front inside flap is detached, but present. The jacket is backed with a number of pieces of old tape along the edges. From the dust jacket-
"La Conquistadora, by Fray Angelico Chavez, though primarily a literary work has information for the historian, color and drama- yes, and humor- for the romantic reader, but most of all it has a moving and pervading love of Our Lady which must appeal to everyone. It is told in the form of an autobiography by the old wooden statue which has been in this country for more than three and a quarter centuries and which was not new when it was carried here from Mexico City."
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To ________, every blessing Fr. Angelico Chavez.
"La Conquistadora, by Fray Angelico Chavez, though primarily a literary work has information for the historian, color and drama- yes, and humor- for the romantic reader, but most of all it has a moving and pervading love of Our Lady which must appeal to everyone. It is told in the form of an autobiography by the old wooden statue which has been in this country for more than three and a quarter centuries and which was not new when it was carried here from Mexico City."
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To ________, every blessing Fr. Angelico Chavez.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66507
- Title
- La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue
- Author
- [New Mexico] Chavez, Fray Angelico
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- St. Anthony Guild Press
- Place of Publication
- Paterson, NJ
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Mexico City; statue; New Mexico
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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