St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo, original half white cloth and black paper boards with printed label, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, gentle shelf-wear to corners, minor bumping to top of boards, loss to upper margins of dust jacket, not affecting text. Very good... More about Saint Thomas Aquinas; Being Papers Read at the Celebration of the Sixth Centenary of the...

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "ESPOUSING LADY POVERTY" First edition of Bishop's life of "Il Poverello," published shortly after Bishop's death in 1973. Bishop was professor emeritus and curator of the Dante and Petrarch Collections of Cornell University. "Francis... More about St. Francis of Assisi

Westminster: The Newman Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original crimson cloth, crimson top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine with "ursuline nuns" written in ink to front pastedown. Dust jacket is near-fine with only modest creasing and rubbing to edges. A near-fine copy. First American edition of this biography of... More about Robert Bellarmine; Saint and Scholar

1929: Sheed & Ward, London. First edition. Octavo, original paper boards over cloth spine, original dust jacket. Top edge slightly dusty but boards are sharp and clean, mild offsetting to gutters and early owner signature to free front endpapers, toning to spine of dust jacket. "A TRUE EXAMPLE OF A.... More about The Secret of the Curé D'Ars; With a Note on the Saint by G. K. Chesterton

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

London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First edition thus. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. Subtle toning to the flap folds of the dust jacket, else Fine. "EYES SPEAK TO EYES, HEART TO HEART, AND NONE BUT THOSE BLESSED LOVERS UNDERSTANDS WHAT PASSES BETWEEN THEM" Orchard Books... More about The Love of God; A Treatise

Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 2005. First edition thus. Octavo, original navy paper boards, ribbon marker, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to edges of dust jacket, book and dust jacket both about-fine. Modern small press edition of The Little Flowers. A smart reprint of the 1915 edition, translated by H.... More about The Little Flowers of Saint Francis; The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

London: Burns & Oates, 1959. First English translation. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small inkstamp to top of free front endpaper, short tears to lower folds of the dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are near-fine. "THE CULT OF ST. THÈRÉSE OF LISIEUX HAS A...... More about The Hidden Face; A Study of St.Thèrése of Lisieux

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: 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

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

New York: P. J. Kenedy Sons, 1922. First edition. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Ink owner stamp to bottom edge of the text block, toning to spine, two short closed tears and mild soiling to panels of dust jacket. A near-fine copy."IGNATIUS WAS A MYSTIC WHO LOVED... More about Saint Ignatius of Loyola; Imitator of Christ 1494 to 1555

Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1947. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth with 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 APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA" First edition of Repplier's biography of the famed 18th... More about Junipero Serra; Pioneer Colonist of California