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Building up the Waste Places; The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the...

Building up the Waste Places; The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the Post-Reformation Church of England

Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: The Faith Press, 1973. First edition. Quarto (10 inches tall), original brown cloth, tan endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket. Neat early owner signature to front pastedown, gentle bumping to lower corners, excellent dust jacket with only lightest creasing and spotting. A near-fine copy. "THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN... More about Building up the Waste Places; The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the...

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A Time to Keep Silence. Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time to Keep Silence

London: John Murray, 1957. First trade edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, price-clipped jacket with John Murray remainder sticker. A splendid, nearly-fine copy. "AN ANCIENT WISDOM EXORCISING THE MEMORY OF THE CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED OF THE INTERVENING CENTURIES, THAT BRINGS ITS MESSAGE OF TRANQUILITY TO QUIETEN... More about A Time to Keep Silence

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The Golden String; The Autobiography of Bede Griffiths. Bede Griffiths

The Golden String; The Autobiography of Bede Griffiths

New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to free front endpaper, modest edge-wear to dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH WAS PRESENTED TO MY MIND"... More about The Golden String; The Autobiography of Bede Griffiths

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Saints and Scholars; Twenty-Five Medieval Portraits. David Knowles

Saints and Scholars; Twenty-Five Medieval Portraits

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "BEDE THE VENERABLE IS THE FIRST GREAT ENGLISHMAN OF WHOM WE CAN FORM A CLEAR PERSONAL PICTURE" First edition of David Knowles's rewarding portraits of twenty-five great minds spanning a thousand years of... More about Saints and Scholars; Twenty-Five Medieval Portraits

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Monastic Sites from the Air. David Knowles, J. K. S. St. Joseph

Monastic Sites from the Air

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine. First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and local architecture of the religious houses in England, Scotland, and Wales, providing modern witness to the destruction wrought by the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-1541)... More about Monastic Sites from the Air

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The Rule of Saint Benedict; In Latin and English. Justin McCann

The Rule of Saint Benedict; In Latin and English

London: Burns Oates, 1952. Early edition. Small octavo, original green cloth, dark top edge, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Very faint pencil marks to the margins of the preface, toning to folds and spine of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "HEARKEN MY SON TO THE PRECEPTS OF THE MASTER... More about The Rule of Saint Benedict; In Latin and English

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Seeds of Contemplation. Thomas Merton

Seeds of Contemplation

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Early printing. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels. Two embossed blindstamps (title page, pages 49, 140), both paper labels intact, slight toning to spine label, very faint spotting to clean, sharp-cornered boards. A lovely copy. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES... More about Seeds of Contemplation

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The Cloud of Unknowing; Together with The Epistle of Privy Council. Mystic, Abbot Justin McCann

The Cloud of Unknowing; Together with The Epistle of Privy Council

London: Burns & Oates. 16mo, original flexible black leatherette boards, original gold foil dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket, owner signature, neat pencil and ink underlining and pencil notes throughout, else a near-fine example in a price-clipped dust jacket. "THEN WILL HE SEND OUT A BEAM OF GHOSTLY LIGHT, PIERCING THIS... More about The Cloud of Unknowing; Together with The Epistle of Privy Council

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The Genesee Diary; Report from a Trappist Monastery. Henri J. M. Nouwen

The Genesee Diary; Report from a Trappist Monastery

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Early edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over black cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. About-fine. "NOW THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN SAY ON THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING, AT THE END OF THE EVENT THAT STARTED ON PENTECOST, IS 'THANKS BE TO GOD THAT I HAVE BEEN... More about The Genesee Diary; Report from a Trappist Monastery

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Monastic Seals of the XIII Century; A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design...

Monastic Seals of the XIII Century; A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design and Artistic Value

London: The De La More Press, 1902. First edition. Quarto, original vellum spine, gilt and blind stamped gray paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Soiling to spine, toned edges, corners bumped, foxing to blank flyleaf, binding sturdy, closed tear to plate VII (not affecting image) else interior text and plates... More about Monastic Seals of the XIII Century; A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design...

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Contemplative Community; An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Basil M. Pennington

Contemplative Community; An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Washington, D. C. Cistercian Publications/Consortium Press, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Slight fading to edges of near-fine cloth, minor creasing and closed tears to spine ends of dust jacket. Small "St. Jos Abbey" price sticker to bottom of front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE CONTEMPLATIVE... More about Contemplative Community; An Interdisciplinary Symposium

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