London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., circa 1950. First edition. Thin 12mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original printed and illustrated paper boards. Bookplate. Interiors largely fine, very gentle soiling to sharp-cornered original boards. A near-fine copy. "THE SPIRIT OF SAINT THÉRÈSE" First edition—in the original stiff paper boards—recounting Peter Anson's..... More about A Pilgrimage to Lisieux; The Pilgrim's Sketch Books
New York: Fordham University Press, 1940. First edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), original red cloth, illustrated cartographical endpapers, uncut. Cracked hinge with slack front board but endpapers remain intact, very faint tanning to illustrated pastedowns, partially unopened. A near-fine copy. "SHE BUILT AN ORATORY WITHIN HER HEART WHICH SHE... More about Katharine Tekakwitha; The Lily of the Mohawks
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...
London and New York: Scepter, 1977. First edition in English. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. closed tear to upper left of the front panel, toning to the edges of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I HAVE TO PASS UNNOTICED AND DISAPPEAR, SO THAT JESUS ALONE BE IN... More about Msgr. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer; A Profile of the Founder of Opus Dei
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
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First American edition. Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. Dusty top-edge to nearly-fine book, dust jacket with only mild wear to the spine ends. A near-fine copy. First English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s first book, with a Foreword by Eberhard Bethge, one..... More about The Communion of Saints; A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church
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. "LOVE IS A MARVELLOUS AND HEAVENLY THING... More about Robert Bellarmine; Saint and Scholar
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, scarce original dust jacket with several closed tears, creases and small chips. Very good indeed. "BEFORE ALL ELSE PRAYER MUST PERMEATE OUR ENTIRE LIFE, TAKEN AS A WHOLE AND IN ALL ITS DETAILS... More about Ignatian Methods of Prayer
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: Hodder and Stoughton, [1954]. Early edition. 12mo., original patterned red cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with early owner signature, whisper of tanning to front flyleaf, front jacket flap torn with loss, spine faded, slight edge-wear. Very good indeed. "HIS FIGURE STANDS ON A SORT OF BRIDGE CONNECTING MY... More about St. Francis of Assisi
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1905. First edition. Quarto (10 7/8 inches tall), original sewn brown cloth boards with gilt titling. Easter presentation inscription to front pastedown, gentle foxing and spotting to title page and last leaf only, text block just a little tender in original boards with a.... More about An Alphabet of Saints; Rhymed by Robert Hugh Benson Reginald Balfour: Charles Ritchie; Drawn by...
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
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
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London: The Westminster Press/Faber and Faber Limited, 1952. First edition. Poster: Large original broadside (30 by 20 inches; 76 by 51 cm) with central color linoleum cut, very light edge-wear with a couple of tiny nicks and tears, custom matted and framed. Book: Small quarto (9 1/2 inches tall), original... More about Murder in the Cathedral [with] The Film of Murder in the Cathedral
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
New York: Duffield and Company, 1907. First edition thus. Small thin octavo, original decorated paper boards over black cloth spine, uncut. Very modest edge-wear to boards. Nearly-fine. "PRAISE BE TO THEE, O LORD, FOR OUR MOTHER THE EARTH" Charming 1907 rendition of The Canticle of the Sun. The years preceding... More about The Canticle of the Sun
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
Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Limited edition. Small quarto, original 3/4 red morocco with patterned paper boards, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Book near-fine with some wear to intact original slipcase. Handsome limited edition of the "Fioretti di San Francesco," decorated by Valenti Angelo with a title-page... More about The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Quarto (14 3/4 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Corners bumped, slight wear to spine and edges of original boards. Very good indeed. "WE ARE LOST. WE HAVE BURNED A SAINT" First American edition of Funck-Brentano's pictorial biography of Joan of Arc, gloriously... More about Joan of Arc
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
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...
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge, minimal edge-wear, vertical slice to center of front panel, crease to front flap of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PRESENT STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO REPAY A DEBT TO... More about Sources of Renewal; The Implementation of the Second Vatican Council
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
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
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1956. Early edition. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, photographic endpapers. Jesuit stamp to blank flyleaf. Housed in a custom blue morocco chemise and slipcase. Fine. "THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE WHICH MAKES IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY DISTINCTIVE" Limited printing of the Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola, combined with... More about St. Ignatius' Own Story; With a Sampling of His Letters