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Courageous Calling: A Biographical Novel
por Seramur, Clare Simone
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Very Good
- Livreiro
-
Savage, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este item
New York, Washington, Hollywood: Vantage Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. A biographical novel about Mother Elizabeth Seton. Seton (1774-1821) was the first natural born United States citizen to be canonized by the Catholic church. She converted to Catholicism in 1805 after the death of her husband, with whom she had five children. Her legacy includes founding the first Catholic girls' school and founding the religious order, the Sisters of Charity. She was canonized in 1975. "Clare Simone Seramur tells us the epic story of this lovely, aristocratic Protestant girl of Old New York in our nation's infancy, who, as a young widow with five children to rear, becomes a convert to the Catholic faith, unintentionally alienating her friends and relatives at the very time she needs them most" (jacket).
8vo. Bound in light blue paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Slight fading and bumping around edges. Yellowing to pages throughout, though text remains bright. Includes frontispiece illustration of Mother Elizabeth Seton. Blue illustrated price clipped dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Spine panel has faded to grey. Minor creasing and chipping to edges of dust jacket as well as minor rubbing to front and rear panels. 223 pages.American Biography. AMERBIO/041715.
8vo. Bound in light blue paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Slight fading and bumping around edges. Yellowing to pages throughout, though text remains bright. Includes frontispiece illustration of Mother Elizabeth Seton. Blue illustrated price clipped dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Spine panel has faded to grey. Minor creasing and chipping to edges of dust jacket as well as minor rubbing to front and rear panels. 223 pages.American Biography. AMERBIO/041715.
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- Livreiro
- The Kelmscott Bookshop
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 28151
- Título
- Courageous Calling: A Biographical Novel
- Autor
- Seramur, Clare Simone
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Vantage Press
- Local de publicação
- New York, Washington, Hollywood
- Data de publicação
- 1961
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Savage, Maryland
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
