Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Council
by Tobin, Greg
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0312873530
- ISBN 13
- 9780312873530
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates. N.Y.* Binding and cover condition: Cream cloth, metallic red title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. Covers very slightly spotted. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a bird in front of a stained glass window, in protective library jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $25.95. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: EX-LIBRARY copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 324 pp. text. xiii pp. author?s note, appendix & blank pages at rear.* Description: Within months of his surprise election, Timothy John Mulrennan, now known as Pope Celestine VI, sends shockwaves throughout the church when he calls for a new ecumenical council, or gathering of the world's bishops - the first since the famous Vatican II in the 1960s. Like Good Pope John before him, this pope will strive to bring important, needed change to the Church he loves. A beautiful journalist who loves a priest...a powerful Irish cardinal who opposes the pope's call for a council...a South American business man who once served in a death squad...An American priest who is torn from his troubled parish to be part of the pope's dream...and a former FBI chief who must protect the life of the pontiff and four thousand bishops from around the world...together they are drawn into the maelstrom of power and passion that is COUNCIL.* A NEAR VG+ copy with minor wear. Still in protected dust jacket.*
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 786
- Title
- Council
- Author
- Tobin, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312873530
- ISBN 13
- 9780312873530
- Publisher
- Saint Martin's Press Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York USA 336
- Date Published
- 2002-08-30
- Size
- 24.3 x 16.4 x 2.9 cm
Terms of Sale
Cocksparrow Books
We offer a 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs. This applies for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
Biblio member since 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
What is a professional bookseller?
Just about anyone can sell a book, but a professional bookseller knows the ins and outs of the rare book trade. Learn more!
Collecting Books on NYC
This gallery is dedicated to some of the best fiction and nonfiction portraying one of the greatest cities in the world. We Heart NYC! Enjoy browsing these books on New York City.
