Pacific Novelty Co. Postcard book, staple bound. Brown softcover wrappers, pastedown plate of Junipero Serra to front wrap. Contains 24 sepia toned postcards of the Franciscan Mission churches in California. Undated, likely 1910s. San Diego de Alcala postcard is tipped in, all others adhered to binding. A nice copy of.....
Benziger Brothers, 1924. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt titles, 180pp. First American Edition. Ex seminary library copy with discreet marks to endpapers, catalog card at rear, sticker to spine. Mild fraying to corners and cloth edges. Contents clean, binding firm. A biography of the medieval Italian saint and founder of the.....
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......
Sheed and Ward, 1930. 12mo, black cloth, gilt titles, 110pp. First edition. Mild fading and bumping to board corners, light chipping to spine edges. Association copy, with bookplate from Helmut Lothar Ripperger, notable research librarian and English translator of the medieval Golden Legend. Contents clean, binding firm. Brief introduction to.....
Marquette University Press, 1964. 8vo, grey softcover wrappers, 123pp. Wrappers show faint rubbing and creasing, soil mark to front wrapper, ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. Treatise by the Spanish Jesuit philosopher, translated from the Latin by J.F. Ross. A nice copy.
St. Augustine’s Press, 2004. 8vo, grey pictorial laminate boards, 170pp. Boards mildly rubbed, interior clean, as new. Excerpt from Metaphysical Disputations of the Spanish Jesuit philosopher. Translated from the Latin and edited by John P. Doyle. A nice copy. .
St. Augustine’s Press, 2002. 8vo, black laminate pictorial boards, 267pp. Corners bumped, mild wear to spine edges. Binding firm. Very minimal pen underlining to a portion of text. Excerpt from Metaphysical Disputations of the Spanish Jesuit philosopher. Translated from the Latin and edited by A.J. Freddoso. A nice copy.
1944. Doubleday, Doran & Company. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt and black titles, St. Francis blindstamp, 234pp. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) Later printing, WWII era with War Bonds advertisement to rear panel. Rear panel rubbed, small closed tear to front panel, light wear to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper. The.....
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.....
London: Burns & Oates. 8vo, blue-green cloth, gilt titles, green top stain, 449pp. First Edition in the Orchard Books series by Burns Oates. Unclipped dust jacket (18snet) mildly faded to panels, wear to edges. Contents clean, binding firm and sharp. Translation of the French devotional classic by Algar Thorold, edited.....
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The Devin Adair Company, 1958. 8vo, full black cloth, silver decorated titles, 399pp. Discreet ex library copy with tape residue marks, catalog card to front endpaper, numerical stamp to title page. Unpriced dust jacket has textual loss to spine, rear panel rubbed, lightly chipped and toned to flaps. Contents clean.....
Sheed and Ward, 1957. 8vo, pink buckram cloth, black titles, 338pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) mildly toned, rubbed to panels. Ex convent library stamping to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. A compendium of Newman’s autobiographical sketches, memoirs and journals, edited and introduced by Henry Tristam of the Oratory.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 8vo, contemporary binding, 430pp plus 127p appendix. Bound in red calf over marbleized paper, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands, marbleized endpapers, all edges marbleized. First one volume edition, following the serial publication in seven separate tracts with the “Answer to.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, aqua blue cloth with silver titles, 408pp. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows small chips and tears to front panel, a bit of loss to head and foot of spine. Interior clean and bright, binding firm. A memoir by.....
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.....
Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1929. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt titles, 167pp. Third impression, 1929. Boards with a few marginal soil marks, discreet rubbing to rear panel, fading to edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A book on the divine indwelling and the operations of grace within the soul presented.....
Hanover House, 1958. 8vo, green buckram cloth, black titles, 357pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) faintly worn at edges, toned to panels. Ownership stamp to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding crisp and firm. Apocryphal stories of St. Francis and his brethren, in an enlarged edition translated from the Latin.....
TAN Books, 1977. 16mo, softcover wrappers, 112pp. First pocket edition of the original 1938 text by Burns Oates. Wrappers mildly worn to edges. Contents clean, binding crisp and firm. ‘A brief outline of the main principles of ascetic and mystical theology.’ The celebrated treatise on the three conversions (purgative, illuminative.....
Everyman’s Library, 1973. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 397pp. Later issue. Unpriced dust jacket moderately toned and rubbed to panels, sunned to spine. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The complete treasury of the sayings and deeds of Saint Francis and company, together with the Mirror of Perfection, a biography.....
Franciscan Herald Press, 1945. Staple bound softcover pamphlet, 16pp. Wrappers toned, mild creasing to corners. Small devotional keepsake gathering the authentic ‘lauds’ from the writings of St Francis, including his annotation of the Our Father, salutation of the Blessed Virgin, and prayer to obtain divine love. A nice copy.