THE ROSE AND THE LILY the story of two South American saints
by Frances Parkinson Keyes:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Peter Davies London 1962 G/G (price clipped dj rubbed at edges with few small chips, dust marks to edges of back flap, clean red cloth with silver titles on spine, gift inscription front free endpaper and few small marks, light speckles outside page edges, internally pages clean and unmarked) octavo 221pp. First British edition. 16pp b/w plates (publisher's note apologising for transposition of illustrations due to a binder's error). Biography of St. Rose of Lima, the first person to be canonized in the New World, and Marian of Quito, better known as "The Lily of Quito" and patron saint of Ecuador.
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- THE ROSE AND THE LILY the story of two South American saints
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- Frances Parkinson Keyes:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Davies London 1962
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