Paulist Press, 1984. 8vo, tan cloth, gilt titles, 88pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with mild rubbing to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A brief book on prayer by the Franciscan friar, spiritual writer, retreat master, and media personality, once director of the St Francis House, a......
Oxford University Press, 1965. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 298pp. Biblical map endpapers. First thus. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) mildly edge-worn. Prints the Old Testament Apocrypha or the deuterocanonical books, additions and fragments of the Revised Standard Version, edited by Bruce M. Metzger. A fine copy. .
Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1969. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 404pp. First issue, unclipped dust jacket (6.00). Ex convent library copy with pen mark to front endpaper, tape residue to boards. Contents clean, binding firm. The collected letters of the Irish foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, the first complete edition.....
Warner Press, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, orange stiff softcover wrappers, unpaginated. First issue. Spine completely sunned, a few creases to wrappers, adhesive residue to spine edge of title page. Firmly bound with clean text. The creator of Peanuts takes a look at Church Young People (from title page).....
University of Chicago Press, 1995. 8vo, drab green cloth, gilt titles, 128pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (18.95) with mild toning to flaps and panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An early work by the young Cioran, inspired from a stint studying the lives.....
Oxford University Press, 1956. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 294pp. First thus. Unpriced dust jacket with moderate toning to panels, light wear to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper, a few instances of toning to pages from the insertion of newspaper clippings. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Dostoyevsky’s 1861.....
The Westminster Press, 1957. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt decorated titles, 421pp. First thus. Ex-church library copy with card pockets and stamps to endpapers, tape marks to dust jacket, which is chipped and rubbed to panels. Contents clean, binding firm. Prints selections from Menno Simons, Thomas Muntzer, and other sixteenth century.....
Samuel Walker, 1952. 8vo, flexible blue cloth, black titles, 308pp. Unclipped dust jacket (15/-) mildly rubbed, toned to panels. Volume II only of a series on Marian shrines, this volume records shrines in America, Belgium, Canada, France, Holland, Italy, and Mexico. Replete with photographic plates. Dedicated to Pius XII. A......
Franciscan Herald Press, 1982. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles, 518pp. First edition. Price-clipped dust jacket with small closed tear to front panel, mild rubbing and sunning to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. 800th anniversary edition, 1982 of the original 1925 text, a comprehensive hagiography of St Francis and.....
Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Aquamarine full cloth with black titles, decorative endpapers, 106pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (two dollars) showing minimal toning and fading to covers. An about fine copy of a scarce Franciscan devotional book detailing the Stations of the Cross of St.....
Kirkwood, MO: Maryhurst Normal Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo (5 x 7.5) Red textured cloth with gilt titles, 334pp. 2 copies for sale in near identical shape. Each firmly bound with clean text; in about fine condition. A scarce critical work on the immense Catholic influence on the poetry.....
Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1962. Hardcover. Reprint edition. 8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 346pp. Unclipped dust jacket (7.50) shows sunning, chipping and a few pen marks. Internally clean, binding firm. Volume One only of a two part treatment of the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas by a professor.....
Benziger Brothers, 1909. 8vo, burgundy gilt stamped cloth, 497pp plus advertisements. First edition. Front hinge repaired at half title, paper split at rear hinge. Pages are rippled and some show water damage. Contents clean, binding firm. Scarce manual of devotions, novenas and legends of the Virgin Mary and the fourteen.....
Benziger Brothers, 1909. 8vo (5.75x8.25), beige pictorial decorative cloth, 497pp plus eight pages of advertisements, black and white illustrated plates. Early printing, in a variant binding of beige cloth stamped with a variant image from the standard issue burgundy cloth. Corners bumped, spine edges slightly frayed. Binding firm and square.....
Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1951. 16mo, black leatherette, gilt titles, gilt edge stain, 256pp, 158pp [Epistles and Gospels]. 1951 printing of the original 1939 publication. Moderate fading to leather present at spine edges and corners, with a few small creases to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. ‘A Manual.....
Pittsburgh: Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers, 1977. 12mo, black leatherette, gilt titles, all edges stained red, 465pp. 1977 printing. Front and rear hinge lightly exposed, marginal wear to edges of boards. Contents clean, binding sharp and secure. A lengthy treasury of Catholic prayers for mothers, with petitions to various saints, special.....
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1965. 8vo, red buckram cloth, black titles, 138pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.00) with minimal loss to edges of panels. Ownership markings to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. Second volume in a six volume series on the Church Fathers, this volume dedicated to the epistles of.....
Doubleday & Co., 1979. 8vo, brown quarter cloth over black paper boards, gilt titles, Russia and Mount Athos monastic map endpapers, 178pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) with mild rubbing and toning to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Stories of visits to Orthodox monasteries in Russia and.....
Padova: E.V.AR. 1941. 16mo, brown leather with pictorial ‘bakelite’ front panel, floral endpapers, 206pp. Text in Italian. Minor rubbing to rear panel and fading to corners, light toning to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and secure. A rather uncommon Italian miniature prayerbook, with devotions for confession and communion taken from.....
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. 8vo, red paper boards, black titles, 311pp. Book Club Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket toned to panels, sunning to spine, small chips and closed tears at spine crown. Board corners bumped with some cracking to spine ends. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A handsome early book.....