1990, ISBN: 9780393027624

New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. A gorgeous copy. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($19.95). Protect… Mehr…

New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. A gorgeous copy. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($19.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bizarre true story of Sarita Kenedy East, Brother Leo Gregory, J. Peter Grace, and the Catholic Church in Texas. Illustrated with 3 family trees and 10 pages of photos. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (1234567890) on the copyright page. Subtitle: "The Stranger-than-Fiction Saga of a Trappist Monk, a Texas Widow, and Her Half-Billion Dollar Fortune." Bound in the original blue boards with a maroon cloth spine stamped in shiny gold. From the Dust Jacket: "Sarita Kenedy East was the aging, melancholy mistress of a cattle kingdom as big as Rhode Island: La Parra, 400,000 acres of South Texas rangeland next door to the fabled King Ranch… Under her lands lay an ocean of oil worth hundreds of millions… Brother Leo - the alleged Svengali of this saga… became the lonely widow's spiritual advisor… Before she died she made him trustee… But Brother Leo ran into some formidable opposition… IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL DO MY WILL, based upon two decades of investigative reporting and interviews with almost every major character, details this extravagant drama, an epic even by Texas standards.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine jacket. 8vo. 383pp., W. W. Norton, 1990<

ISBN: 0393027627

Sarita Kenedy East is the aging mistress of 400 acres of south Texas rangeland. When a Trappist monk visits her in 1948, he discoveres that underneath her empire lay an ocean of oil worth… Mehr…

Sarita Kenedy East is the aging mistress of 400 acres of south Texas rangeland. When a Trappist monk visits her in 1948, he discoveres that underneath her empire lay an ocean of oil worth millions. When she dies, Sarita leaves her fortune to Leo, the monk, who encounters a firestorm of opposition including the Catholic Church. Illustrated. administrative law,biographies,civil procedure,judicial system,law,legal theory and systems,murder and mayhem,politics and social sciences,rules and procedures,social sciences True Crime, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.<

ISBN: 9780393027624

Sarita Kenedy East is the aging mistress of 400 acres of south Texas rangeland. When a Trappist monk visits her in 1948, he discoveres that underneath her empire lay an ocean of oil worth… Mehr…

Sarita Kenedy East is the aging mistress of 400 acres of south Texas rangeland. When a Trappist monk visits her in 1948, he discoveres that underneath her empire lay an ocean of oil worth millions. When she dies, Sarita leaves her fortune to Leo, the monk, who encounters a firestorm of opposition including the Catholic Church. Illustrated. If You Love Me, You Will Do My Will Michaud, Stephen G. / Aynesworth, Hugh, W. W. Norton & Company<