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Mother Teresa. A Gift for God. Prayers and Meditations. New York: Harper & Row, [c. 1980]....
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Mother Teresa. A Gift for God. Prayers and Meditations. New York: Harper & Row, [c. 1980].8vo. Original gray cloth; dust jacket.
Later printing. INSCRIBED BY MOTHER TERESA on the front free endpaper: "Be holy - because / God / who has created you / because He loved you / is Holy. / God bless you / M Teresa MC / 1/1/82."
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in in Skopje, North Macedonia (at the time part of the Ottoman Empire). At the age of eighteen she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, whose sisters, brothers, and priests serve the poorest of the poor throughout the world. Active in nearly 140 countries, they run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counseling programs; orphanages; and schools. Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honors, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta" in October 2003. Books inscribed by Mother Teresa are rare.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced "$6.95"), with minor wear to head of spine panel and extremities, spine panel creased vertically along center.
Provenance: From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2025 September 10 - 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6321 (go to Auction Home page)
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