From Union Square to Rome
Published by The Preservation of the Faith Press, Silver Spring, MD, 1938
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Anagoge Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.Anagoge Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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8vo, brick red cloth, white titles, blindstamped boards, bevelled edges, 173pp. Stated First Printing, November 1938. Review copy, with a tipped in photo slide featuring a press portrait of Day, and a hand-signed letter from the publisher addressed to Newsweek. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50) mildly spotted to panels, small closed tear to upper edges of both panels, chipping and loss to lower edges of front panel, most noticeably the "Y" of Day. The spine crown of cloth is partly sun bleached, endpapers and page leaves age toned. The first book length publication by Dorothy Day following her conversion to the Catholic faith and founding of the Catholic Worker Movement, and the first of two autobiographical works (The Long Loneliness would later be published in 1951). "From Union Square to Rome", written and dedicated to her brother, focuses on Day's youth and activity in communist movements, ending with a brief narrative of her conversion. Previously excerpted in The Sign, America, and Preservation of the Faith magazine. A scarce first printing, exceedingly scarce in dust jacket. Presents handsomely in mylar. .…
Seller Inventory # 652
Bibliographic details
- Title
- From Union Square to Rome
- Author
- Dorothy Day
- Publisher
- The Preservation of the Faith Press, Silver Spring, MD
- Publication year
- 1938
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- CATHOLICA, CHRISTIANITY, NEW YORK
Anagoge Books
Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
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