Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1980. This volume is in Fine, unread condition, with a Near-Fine unclipped dust jacket (click on photo). It contains short biographies on some 5,000 Catholic saints. The book is bound in beige boards with brown spine cloth and gilt spine lettering. The dust jacket has light age toning and several tiny tears. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 647 pages. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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JOHN J. DELANEY , the former director of Doubleday Religious Publishing and founder of Image Books, was an active figure in the world of religious publishing for more than forty years. He also authored A Woman Clothed with the Sun, and translated The Practice of the Presence of God . ARTHUR JONES is currently an editor at large at the National Catholic Reporter , and has previously worked at Forbes and the Financial Times (London). He is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Pierre Toussaint.

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Bookseller: Grimalkin Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000935
Title: Dictionary of Saints
Author: Delaney, John J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
ISBN 10: 0385135947
ISBN 13: 9780385135948
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: Catholicism, Religion
Bookseller catalogs: Religion and Theology;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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...