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  • MARIETTE IN ECSTASY. by Hansen, Ron.
    Hansen, Ron.
    MARIETTE IN ECSTASY.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - This novel about a beautiful 17 year old postulate in a 1906 upstate New York convent who begins to bleed from stigmata raises provocative questions about the nature of faith. It is "a stunning immersion into the society of a small convent at the turn of the century, where a mysterious and ultimately harrowing world lies beneath the lovely, placed surface of everyday life." SIGNED on the title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-060182148.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 90586
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  • A SAINT FROM TEXAS. by White, Edmund.
    White, Edmund.
    A SAINT FROM TEXAS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bloomsbury, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this noted gay American author, a self-proclaimed 'archaeologist of gossip', the story of twin sisters fleeing a dried up oil town in 50s Texas, one to a convent, the other to a glitzy life in Paris. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1635572551.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89228
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  • ADVENT OF DYING. by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
    Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
    ADVENT OF DYING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery feauturing the septuagenarian nun and amateur sleuth, Sister Mary Helen. Set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED and dated on the front endpaper "To -- Happy reading! I hope you enjoy this mystery" . 277 pp. ISBN: 0-385-295065.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 70825
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  • MARIETTE IN ECSTASY. by Hansen, Ron.
    Hansen, Ron.
    MARIETTE IN ECSTASY.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: HarperPerennial, (1992.). SIGNED - This novel about a beautiful 17 year old postulate in a 1906 upstate New York convent who begins to bleed from stigmata raises provocative questions about the nature of faith. It is "a stunning immersion into the society of a small convent at the turn of the century, where a mysterious and ultimately harrowing world lies beneath the lovely, placed surface of everyday life." SIGNED on the title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0981180.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 45439
    Keywords: convent life, Fiction
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  • MARIETTE IN ECSTASY. by Hansen, Ron.
    Hansen, Ron.
    MARIETTE IN ECSTASY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This novel about a beautiful 17 year old postulate in a 1906 upstate New York convent who begins to bleed from stigmata raises provocative questions about the nature of faith. It is "a stunning immersion into the society of a small convent at the turn of the century, where a mysterious and ultimately harrowing world lies beneath the lovely, placed surface of everyday life." SIGNED on the title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-060182148.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 33786
    View cart More details Price: $35.00