Edel Quinn: Envoy of the Legion of Mary to Africa. A Heroine of the Apostolate, 1907-1944. by Suenens. Msgr. Leon-Joseph - 1954

Dublin, Ireland.: C. J. Fallon Limited.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 8vo - 21.5 x 13 cm.; xviii - 272 - (6) pp. Blue cloth over boards with red lettering on the spine. From the author's introduction: "Edel Quinn was a frail young girl, given up by the doctors, who went off as a lay missionary to bring the Legion of Mary to British Central and East Africa." Translated from the French "Une Héroine de l'Apostolat: Edel Quinn" with no translator mentioned. Illustrated with black and white photographs and 2 maps. Five page preface by Archbishop Riberi, the Internuncio to China at the time. Two page glossary followed by the two mentioned maps at the back. Minor wear to the spine tips and the fore corners of the boards while the interior is clean and the binding is sound. The dust jacket is quite worn and a tad sunned with tape repairs on the inside. .