Author: GORREE, Georges
Title: Charles de Foucauld
Description: Lyon, Editions du Chalet, 1957. Hardcover. Preface by Georges Mercier. Introduction by Rene Voillaume. Small 4to. Tan cloth with red spine lettering and gilt front board decoration. 202pp, (3pp). Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine. Bright and tight first edition, entirely in French, of this largely-pictorial biography of the French cavalry officer turned African explorer/geographer and finally Catholic priest (1858-1916), living among the Tuareg tribe of Algeria as a hermit until being assassinated -- a martyr on the fast track to canonization. Boldly inked1961 inscription on front flyleaf (likewise in French) translates: "Best wishes from one to a pair who do not write often" -- unsigned and in an unidentified hand. Not Mercier's, but Voillaume's or Gorree's?.
Keywords: Religion
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Title: Charles de Foucauld
Description: Lyon, Editions du Chalet, 1957. Hardcover. Preface by Georges Mercier. Introduction by Rene Voillaume. Small 4to. Tan cloth with red spine lettering and gilt front board decoration. 202pp, (3pp). Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine. Bright and tight first edition, entirely in French, of this largely-pictorial biography of the French cavalry officer turned African explorer/geographer and finally Catholic priest (1858-1916), living among the Tuareg tribe of Algeria as a hermit until being assassinated -- a martyr on the fast track to canonization. Boldly inked1961 inscription on front flyleaf (likewise in French) translates: "Best wishes from one to a pair who do not write often" -- unsigned and in an unidentified hand. Not Mercier's, but Voillaume's or Gorree's?.
Keywords: Religion
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48826
- Book number: 48826
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