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The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker
by Vincent F. Holden
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958 The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 1958. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bumping to tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tear on bottom or rear panel. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 508 pp 8vo. This is the first completely documented life of Isaac Hecker who was born in NYC in 1819 and at an early age this German-American knew God had special work for him. He eventually was drawn to the Catholic Church and become a priest although later he joined the Redemptorist Congregation and cared for German-speaking Catholics. In 1858 after a meeting with Pope Pius IX he returned to the US to join the Paulist Fathers with the intention of converting America to Catholicism as he felt that Americans were looking for the truth and that once he showed them the Church in it true form that they would embrace it. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015988
- Title
- The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker
- Author
- Vincent F. Holden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Bruce Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Milwaukee, WI
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Catholic Church, Catholicism, Redemptorist Congregation, Paulist Fathers, Father Hecker, German Catholic, German-speaking Catholics, Brook Farm, Fruitlands, New England Intellectuals, Pope Pius IX
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
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- Tight
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- Shelfwear
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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