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First printing. The second book by this award-winnng Egyptian born photographer. Fifty quiet and often moving black of white photographs of people of all ages and all religions at prayer - a Mexican woman keeping vigil beside a grave, a Balinese mother teaching her child to say grace, a man dancing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and more. Printed on heavy gloss stock on the recto only - the pictures need no commentary, Winner of the first Carl Allison Evans award. Unpaginated (the plates are numbered). 10 1/4 inches tall by 9 1/2 inches wide. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (very slight sunning to spine of dj.) .ISBN # 0-394529308 

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