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The Strolling Saint: Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the State of Piacenza
by SABATINI, Rafael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. A 1924 first edition of the revised edition of Rafael Sabatini's novel, first published in 1913. This is the story of an Italian man who was groomed by his mother to become a saint, but later abandoned this calling. --- In linen-finish black cloth-covered boards with titling in orange to cover & spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With fragment from the dust jacket pasted to front paste-down, slight sunning to cloth and mild soiling to textblock edges, otherwise a tightly-bound, sturdy copy.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; vi, 442 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86295
- Title
- The Strolling Saint: Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the State of Piacenza
- Author
- SABATINI, Rafael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1935
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- Paste-down
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