Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. Slight lean to the spine, two short closed tears and mild toning to the spine of the dust jacket. First edition in English of William Weston: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan. The Jesuit missionary William Weston... More about William Weston; The Autobiography of an Elizabethan
Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of The Little Flower, 1932. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original brown and black cloth lettered in silver. Very gentle wear to the front board. About-fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS AND THESE TOO MANY OF... More about Father Coughlin's Radio Discourses 1931-1932
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Very gentle lean to the spine, light toning to the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British Jesuit. Robert Southwell and... More about The Life of Robert Southwell; Poet and Martyr
Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, faint wrinkling to pack panel, very gentle toning to spine of dust jacket. An excellent copy. "CATHOLICS WERE INDEED ROMAN IN THEIR TRADITION, RITUALISTIC IN THEIR DEVOTION, AND ETERNALLY BOUND TO... More about Catholic Revivalism; The American Experience 1830-1900
London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with a tiny pin-hole to the spine and modest edge-wear and soiling to still-bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NOW GIANTS WERE UPON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS"... More about Generation of Giants; The Story of the Jesuits in China in the last Decades of the Ming Dynasty
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, with only minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. “MOTHER TERESA’S VISION OF THE STREET, WHICH DROVE HER OUT AMONG THOSE ROTTING WITH DISEASE AND WRACKED..... More about Such a Vision of the Street; Mother Teresa - The Spirit and the Work
New York: Paulist Press, 1988. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Pencil note to front pastedown: "inscribed to Fr. David Bromfield, professor at CUA." Book about-fine with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor edge-wear to upper corners and spine. First edition of this critical edition of... More about Isaac T. Hecker: The Diary; Romantic Religion in Antebellum America
London: Hollis & Carter, 1950. Second impression. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. About-fine book with only gentle toning to the spine, small tape stain to inside flap of the dust jacket. An excellent copy. "FATHER, I ABANDON MYSELF IN YOUR HANDS, DO WITH ME WHAT YOU... More about Desert Calling; The Story of Charles de Foucauld
Lyon: Petri Rigaud, 1607. Early edition. Small octavo (6 3/4 inches tall), contemporary brown morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, central coat of arms within a lozenge design of small leafy tools, corners with sprigs, fillet border. Calligraphic ink inscription in Latin dated 1611 to blank flyleaf, mild dampstaining... More about De Vita B. Francisci Xavierii; Qui primus è Societate Iesu in Indiam & Iaponiam Evangelium...
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY... More about You are the Future (with) I Believe in Youth; To the Young People of the World
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, original dust jacket. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Small tape stain to upper corner of free front endpaper. Mild toning to spine, small chip to bottom of back panel of dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of... More about St. Paul
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First American edition. Octavo, original half brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. The book is nearly-fine, the rare pink dust jacket is stained, torn, and chipped on the spine and the lower front panel but whole with the illustration largely unaffected. A.... More about A Saint in the Slave Trade; Peter Claver
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New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Gift inscription, dated 1982, to free front endpaper of near-fine book, toning and gentle wear to upper edges of dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this authorized biography of Dorothy Day and the... More about Dorothy Day; A Biography
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, orignal dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's lovely... More about Something Beautiful for God; Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. First edition of this extended dialogue between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler, based on the five-episode mini-series for BBC television the previous year. Beautifully illustrated with 24 photographic plates and maps. Opens with... More about Paul, Envoy Extraordinary
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, mounted labels, cartographic endpapers, uncut, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor creasing to edges of bright and fresh dust jacket. About-fine. "THE ATLANTIC COAST KNOWS LITTLE BUT HIS NAME, AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN THAT; BUT... More about Junipero Serra; Pioneer Colonist of California