8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 786pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (36.00) with heavy creases to panels, loss to spine crown and top edge of front panels. A comprehensive biography of the Italian counter-reformation saint and doctor of the church, founder of the Redemptorist order, focusing in spirit on his pastoral care for the simple, poor and forgotten. Written by a French Redemptorist priest and translated into English. Rather uncommon. A good copy in mylar.