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 of the saints in a Romanian library in the 1930s. An irreverent, ecstatic and aphoristic hagiography of various saints inter-spliced with observations on the mystery of suffering, belief and unbelief. A handsome copy in mylar.