FIRST COMMUNICANTS Manual, in accordance with recent Pontifical Decress. Steinbrener, John Baptist. Publisher to the Holy See. Winterberg, Czechoslovakia. 1929.

320 pages. Frontispiece and 34 full-page illustrations.Woodcut head and tail pieces. Rounded corners. All edges gilt. Original white moiré (watered silk pattern) endpapers. Front paste-down endpaper has a gilt decorated cartonnage border around a brass crucified figure of Jesus on an irridescent metal cross. Contemporary inscription on recto of frontispiece, dated 1933. 56 x 93 mm. Contemporary devotional binding of cream celluloid boards with a pastel coloured representation of Christ with his hand on the shoulder of a young female communicant on the upper cover. Mounted with a functioning side-hinged engraved metal clasp. Spine bound in original tan velvet plush fabric with a plain cover of cream celluloid. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. Not in WorldCat.