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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. First Edition - Softcover. 253 pages. Very clean pale mauve/white patterned-background covers. Light wear to covers' corners and spine-ends. Light yellowing to page-edges o/w very clean pages.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st. Postage reduced within the UK.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 296 pages. 26 cm. Black cloth with gilt lettering to front and to spine. Glossy pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations (numerous b/w archival photographs). Time-line (Chronology). Picture credits. Index. Bibliography. 6 pages of publisher's advertising at end. Light creasing to flaps of dust-cover. A bright, tight, as new coffee-table book. NOTE : Heavy book, may require extra shipping; please inquire.…

Soft Cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. A near Fine unmarked copy. 224 pages. This edition is based on Thomas N. Taylor's 1916 translation from the first definitive Carmelite edition published in 1914. Therese de Lisieux (1873-1897) was born into a devout Catholic home in France. From early childhood she wanted to become a nun and at the age of 15 she entered the Carmelite convent at Lisieux, where two of her sisters were already nuns. She died aged 24 after a long struggle with tuberculosis. She was canonised in 1925. Her autobiography, sometimes known as 'The Story of the Little White Flower', was written at the request of her superiors, for the beneftit of the other nuns. When it was published, the story of her deep and simple piety attracted an enormous following. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R6 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Thus. A paperback book in fine condition, dated 1993. Neat address stamp on the first introductory page of the book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 8vo. viii, 95pp,32pp. In publishers brown cloth decorated in blind with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat spotted and partially faded, slight rubbing to head of spine, otherwise a good copy. Scarce.