The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ? by Ian Wilson - 1978

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1978. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. Good/edges are heavily ripped and wor. Hardcover with dust jacket in good minus condition. Light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and binding tight.

Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1978. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has a small amount of pencil markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Doubleday & Company. Later. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Spots to edges, else tight and clean. DJ shows rubbing, chipping, creases, minor browning.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Good. Slightly smaller book, brown cloth spine, brown boards, gilt lettering bright but rubbed too on spine, map inside covers and adjacent end papers shows route of Shroud to Europe, 272 lightly browned pages including appendices and notes, 3 photo sections and more illustrations and maps. DJ price-clipped, illustration of shroud on background on front, face on shroud on back. DJ has very slight wear to front bookfold edge, tiny thin creases at top and bottom front edge, slight wear to top back tip and spine edges, two very tiny tears at top back edge. Near Good DJ/Very Good book.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, Inc, 1978. Book. Illus. by Photographs & Sketches. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. used. Original 2-tone cloth, Map end papers, former owner inscription on reverse of ffep. Former owners book-plate on half-title page, 272 pages. Clean and tight. Illustrated dust jacket has chips and small tears to extremities. Wrinkle/fold marks to head and tail of spine..

U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean unmarked copy except for owners signature . DJ clipped and shows some wear.Synopsis: One of the most baffling questions concerning the Shroud's authenticity is how - and where - it was preserved through the centuries. Ian Wilson traces the history of the cloth from its creation almost two thousand years ago. He proposes ingenuous solutions to the gaps in its history - explanations that link the Shroud to the Mandylion that belonged to the Emperors of Constantinople, to legends of Veronica's Veil and the Holy Grail, as well as to the powerful Knight's Templars of Medieval Europe. The Shroud Of Turin is a fascinating detective story that offers some intriguing answers to questions that have surrounded this frail piece of linen for centuries.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Clean, tight, unmarked; age tanned; light creasing and edge wear to dust jacket - large chip to upper back corner of dj; price clipped; price sticker removal damage to spine edge; wear to corners; otherwise minimal wear; Scientists and historians worked to untangle the tantalizing mystery surrounding the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the cloth in which Christ was buried. This book tells the story of that search, which combines elements of mystery, intrigue, and the most advanced techniques available to doctors, police, and other specialists of the day. A fascinating detective story that offers some intriguing answers to questions that have surrounded this frail piece of linen for centuries.