This is the Mass
by SHEEN, FULTON; HENRI DANIEL-ROPS and YOUSUF KARSH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Some faint offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very good jacket, with $4.95 price intact. Light edgewear to jacket, with a cou
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Some faint offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very good jacket, with $4.95 price intact. Light edgewear to jacket, with a couple useless pieces of tape to verso, residue from previous amateurish mylar backing.. Super 8vo. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 158 pp. Maroon cloth over matching paper boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 30 full-page reproductions of black & white photographs of Bishop SHEEN -- celebrating the Mass in his own private chapel, his grand-nephew serving as altar boy --, by portrait photographer YOUSUF KARSH, plus color frontispiece. Introduction by Bishop SHEEN. Translated by ALASTAIR GUINAN. Approbations. 'Three world-famous figures have combined their talents to produce this beautiful book dedicated to a greater understanding of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.' A presentable copy of the less common First Printing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1307
- Title
- This is the Mass
- Author
- SHEEN, FULTON; HENRI DANIEL-ROPS and YOUSUF KARSH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Some faint offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very good jacket, with $4.95 price intact. Light edgewear to jacket, with a cou
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hawthorn Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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