Stages on the Road
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8 in. 266 pp. Publisher's blue decorative cloth, red top-stain. Contents include Ramón Lull of Palma, Saint Angela Merici, Robert Southwell, S.J., Margaret Clitherow, To Saint James, & Reply to a Parish Priest. Translated by ARTHUR G. CHATER. Designed beautifully by W.A. DWIGGINS, with a his Designer's Note at rear. Good in good jacket. Fore-corners slight bumped; some damp-staining to top edge, causing red top-stain to bleed somewhat into top margin of textblock. Some spotting to covers and edges, and traces of spotting to endpapers and the occasional page. Jacket heavily sun-faded at spine panel, and heavily worn at extremities, with closed tear at bottom of spine panel. Binding square and tight, text unmarked.
'Here is a book ripe with learning, rich in wisdom, serene in faith, yet always alert & inquiring. It is also the first book in which American readers can really become familiar with Sigrid Undset's splendid personality.' Uncommon in jacket.
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