The City Set on a Hill : The Story of the Vatican
by Van Der Veldt, James A
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. Published 1994. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Illustrated in black and white. Scarlet red cloth with gilt cover illustration and spine lettering, 299 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in good condition with conspicous edgewear including three black spots along the bottom edge of the cover and three dampstains at bottom of text block edge, which bleed into margins but do not touch text, lightly rubbed spine ends and corners, sound text block, good hinges, name atop left corner of frontis, otherwise clean contents with no markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in fair condition with heavily rubbed and chipped extremities, with the front cover design well intact. . Signed by the Author. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020726
- Title
- The City Set on a Hill : The Story of the Vatican
- Author
- Van Der Veldt, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CATHOLICISM VATICAN HISTORY ROME POPES PAPAL DUTCH CATHOLIC AUTHORS LAOCOON SCULPTURE AT VATICAN CITY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy, Theology, Religion, Spirituality;
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Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- 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....