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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: 90586More details Price: $25.00 -
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: 89228More details Price: $24.50 -
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: 70825More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 45439More details Price: $15.00 -
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: 33786More details Price: $35.00