Title: This is the Mass

Publisher: Hawthorn Books

Publication Date: 1958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

4to, maroon quarter cloth over maroon papered boards, gilt titles, 159pp. Stated First Edition, January 14, 1958. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95). Ex parochial school library copy with stamping to front and rear endpapers, no additional markings. A soil mark beginning at front endpaper bleeds over to a section of text block onto rear endpaper, boards show mild rubbing, corners bumped. Dust jacket edge worn with creasing to lower corner of front panel. An exposition of the Tridentine Rite of the Catholic Mass, with black and white photographs of Bishop Sheen celebrating mass by Yousuf Karsh, with accompanying text by Henri Daniel-Rops. With an introduction by Bishop Sheen. The first in a series of collaborations between the three, followed by This is Rome and This is the Holy Land. Scarce first printing. A handsome copy in mylar.