Pro Vita Monastica: An Essay in Defense of the Contemplative Virtues
by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1923. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. 8 vo. brown cloth with decorative embossing, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. 5 3/4"x8 1/2." xvii+164 pages. Publisher's presentation card laid in. Title page printed in red and black Last leave uncut, one page opened roughly with paper knife, sweat stain along the front edge margin on second half of the book, otherwise very good plus in very good dust jacket frayed and chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001532
- Title
- Pro Vita Monastica: An Essay in Defense of the Contemplative Virtues
- Author
- Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1923
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