The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker
de Vincent F. Holden
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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EUR 11.27EUR 7.89
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Sobre este artículo
Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958 The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 1958. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bumping to tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tear on bottom or rear panel. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 508 pp 8vo. This is the first completely documented life of Isaac Hecker who was born in NYC in 1819 and at an early age this German-American knew God had special work for him. He eventually was drawn to the Catholic Church and become a priest although later he joined the Redemptorist Congregation and cared for German-speaking Catholics. In 1858 after a meeting with Pope Pius IX he returned to the US to join the Paulist Fathers with the intention of converting America to Catholicism as he felt that Americans were looking for the truth and that once he showed them the Church in it true form that they would embrace it. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015988
- Título
- The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker
- Autor
- Vincent F. Holden
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- The Bruce Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Milwaukee, WI
- Fecha de publicación
- 1958
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Catholic Church, Catholicism, Redemptorist Congregation, Paulist Fathers, Father Hecker, German Catholic, German-speaking Catholics, Brook Farm, Fruitlands, New England Intellectuals, Pope Pius IX
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biographies;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...