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Divine Disobedience. Profiles in Catholic Radicalism
by Gray, Francine du Plessix
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Tan cloth stamped in silver. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (slight toning, a few closed tears)
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth stamped in silver. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (slight toning, a few closed tears). First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. First book from the author and essayist, Francine du Plessix Gray (1930-2019). Divine Disobedience won the National Catholic Book Award; her other works included the best selling Lovers and Tyrants (1976), biographies of Madame de Staël and the Marquis de Sade, and an autobiographical work, Them, A Memoir of Parents (2005), which won the National Book Critics Circle award.
Inscribed to her longtime friend Robert Silvers, founding editor of the New York Review of Books: "To Bob with gratitude and devotion always, Francine 5/20/70". Provenance: from the Library of Robert Silvers
Inscribed to her longtime friend Robert Silvers, founding editor of the New York Review of Books: "To Bob with gratitude and devotion always, Francine 5/20/70". Provenance: from the Library of Robert Silvers
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 317790
- Title
- Divine Disobedience. Profiles in Catholic Radicalism
- Author
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Format/Binding
- 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Tan cloth stamped in silver. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (slight toning, a few closed tears)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- American | Theology & Religion | Women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Social Thought; Philosophy & Religion;
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