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Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest: A History and Bibliography of Imprints 1876-1899
by [Leaf Book] Schoenberg, Wilfred P
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About This Item
Portland: Champoeg Press, 1957. First edition, limited to 804 copies. 8vo, 75, [1]pp. Mounted portrait frontis, facsimiles, photographs. Pages partially uncut. Original title leaf from "Szmimeie-s Jesus Christ: A Catechism of the Christian Doctrine in the Flat-Head or Kalispel Language" from St. Ignatius Print, 1880 laid in. Red cloth boards with vignette hand press illustration on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. Bumped lower corners else near fine.
Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.
Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.
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- Title
- Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest: A History and Bibliography of Imprints 1876-1899
- Author
- [Leaf Book] Schoenberg, Wilfred P
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 75, [1]pp. Mounted portrait frontis, facsimiles, photographs. Pages partially uncut. Original title leaf from "Szmimeie-s J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited to 804 copies
- Publisher
- Champoeg Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland
- Date Published
- 1957
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