This is the Mass
New York: Hawthorn Books, (1958). First Edition. Super 8vo. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 158 pp. Maroon cloth over matching paper boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 30 full-page reproductions of black & white photographs of Bishop SHEEN -- celebrating the Mass in his own private chapel, his grand-nephew serving as altar boy --, by portrait photographer YOUSUF KARSH, plus color frontispiece. Introduction by Bishop SHEEN. Translated by ALASTAIR GUINAN. Approbations. Some faint offsetting to endpapers, else fine in very good jacket, with $4.95 price intact. Light edgewear to jacket, with a couple useless pieces of tape to verso, residue from previous amateurish mylar backing.
'Three world-famous figures have combined their talents to produce this beautiful book dedicated to a greater understanding of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.' A presentable copy of the less common First Printing.
Price: $150.00