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In the House of the Lord
by Robert Flynn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1969. SIGNED & DATED. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Signed by Robert Flynn and dated Feb 27, 1969, on the first free endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges. Corners mildly bumped. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Faint diagonal crease to the signature page. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.95) with light shelf wear, light crease/indentation to the upper front panel. No tears or chips. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Robert Flynn's second novel tracks a day in the life of Pat Shahan, minister of a Protestant church in a large city. Young, devout, and honest, Shahan seeks revelation—and is offered a revolving neon cross for the church steeple; he seeks vision—and gets a pep talk from the church treasurer. Striving to serve the Lord, he is dragged into a "Great Crusade" which is nothing more than a publicity stunt that ends disastrously. Shahan's day sees him ministering to the sick and dying, pacifying angry parishioners and counseling troubled ones, seeking inspiration for a sermon, trying to calm his mother by phone, and losing patience with his family. Pat Shahan is a thoroughly human minister.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2392
- Title
- In the House of the Lord
- Author
- Robert Flynn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Brodart
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- VG/VG
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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