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Pageant of Life, a human drama
by Dudley, Owen Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, 11th impression (1st pub 1932), clipped d/j (fair, chipping and bumping), maroon cloth boards, faded spine titling; text b
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1955. 11th imp. hardback. Good, 11th impression (1st pub 1932), clipped d/j (fair, chipping and bumping), maroon cloth boards, faded spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's neat inscription ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Owen Francis Dudley (1882-1952) was a Catholic priest who wrote detective fiction (amongst other things) that has often been compared to Chesterton's Father Brown stories. This is the 4th book in his Problems of Human Happiness series, set against the backdrop of the battle between Christianity and Communism.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131844
- Title
- Pageant of Life, a human drama
- Author
- Dudley, Owen Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 11th impression (1st pub 1932), clipped d/j (fair, chipping and bumping), maroon cloth boards, faded spine titling; text b
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 11th imp
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 343
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, apologetics, Catholicism, Dudley
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
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