The Third Mystic of Avila: The Self Revelation of Maria Vela, a Sixteenth Century Spanish Nun

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. First U.S. fedition. A bit musty, two closed 1 inch jacket tears, one with a small associated crease, jacket lightly toned, jacket price clipped. 1960 Hard Cover. 300 pp. Frontispiece woodcut portrait of Maria Vela. Translated into English, with a foreword, by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Maria Avela y Cueto was a Cistercian nun, whose spastic episodes of euphoria led many to believe she was possessed by demons; though she claimed to be a messenger from God.