A Pearl to India by Vincent Cronin - 1959

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. 297 pages. Brown pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

E. P. Dutton, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY 1959 first edition (stated) Dutton. Hardcover octavo. 297p. De Nobili was the first missionary to establish Christianity in interior India. VG in Good Plus dust jacket (just faint wear on dj.) .

Hart-Davis, 1959T. unknown_binding. Very Good. in x in x in. Rupert Hart-Davis 1959 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

London: Rupert Hart Davis. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing. Foxing and fading to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 297, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 3 plates. 1 full page map. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Biography of Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656), Jesuit missionary to southern India. "In 1606 Nobili went to live in Madurai, South India. Here against immense odds he became the first European to learn Sanskrit and to study the Vedas and non-dualist Vedanta. Suspected of 'appeasement' by Europeans, and by the Brahmins of being a Turk in disguise, Nobili single-handed fought a battle to bring Christianity to the Indians on fair terms." - from dust-jacket blurb. Illustrations: Roberto de Nobili; A Gate-tower of the Madurai temple; The goddess Sarasvati; Tirumala Nayak. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.