Boys Town: Where the Homeless Boy Finds Comfort, Happiness and Opportunity (cover title). Signed Copy by Father Flanagan. [FLANAGAN, Edward J.] - no date [1939]
by Father Flanagan. [FLANAGAN, Edward J.]
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Boys Town: Where the Homeless Boy Finds Comfort, Happiness and Opportunity (cover title). Signed Copy
by Father Flanagan. [FLANAGAN, Edward J.]
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- Paperback
- Signed
- first
Boys Town, Nebraska: Father Flanagan's Boys Home, no date [1939]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Father Flanagan at the first page: "Father Flanagan/ Boys Town, Nebr.,/ Xmas 1939." Tall quarto (12.25" x 9.25"), 16 unnumbered pages & covers, profusely illustrated from photographs. Original pictorial light card covers, stapled.
Lightly soiled, modest edge wear particularly at the corners, lower cover irregularly browned, otherwise very good or better.
"There is no such thing as a bad boy."
Father Flanagan (1886 -1948) revolutionized how orphaned and disadvantaged youth are cared for and will no doubt be declared a saint by the Catholic Church imminently.
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Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Format/Binding Pictorial paper wraps, stapled
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Father Flanagan's Boys Home
- Place of Publication Boys Town, Nebraska
- Date Published no date [1939]
- Keywords Boys Town, Nebraska, Father Flanagan, Autograph, Signed, Homelessness, Orphans. Religion, Catholic, Catholicism, Education, Citizenship