New York: Benziger Brothers, 1925. Hardcover. 637p. Red decorated cloth. A clean, bright, unmarked hardcover book in fine condition. Much nicer than normally encountered. This book is a compilation of entries from "Butler's Lives" and other sources with updated entries for "recently canonized" and American saints. It functions as a...... More
New York: Doubleday, 2003. Second Edition, revised and updated. Hardcover. 702p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is a bit crinkled along the top edge and has a small slit..... More
Radio Eireann, 1958. Paperback. 94p. A softcover book in very good condition. Edges of cover worn, chip in front cover, a few marginal notes in pencil, newspaper article pasted on back endpaper. A collection of writings on St. Patrick by various authors, edited by Rev. John Ryan. More
Edinburgh: Neill & Co, 1877. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to, pp. 50, 2 plates, [first work], pp. 4, double-page plate (second work), cont. quarter red skiver morocco, cloth sides, spine rubbed & faded. From the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol XIL. Session 1876-77, [and] Note of..... More
Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 1983. 1st Edition. Paperback. 93p. A small yellow softcover book in fine condition. Measures approx. 7" x 4.2" More
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co, 1952. 7th printing. Hardcover. 502p. A very good hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. Jacket faded and lightly worn, previous owner's name blacked out on endpaper, otherwise pages clean and tight. Translated by Frederic C. Eckhoff. A biography of St. Paul and accounts..... More
United States: Joseph I. Dirvin, 1963. Paperback. 31p. A staplebound softcover booklet in good condition. Edges worn; inscription inside front cover; otherwise, text clean, and pages fully bound. In-text black and white illustrations. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 498p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Edges faintly tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is edgeworn, but intact. A biography of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Contains black and white photographs. More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 117p. A royal blue gilt cloth hardcover book in good condition. Cloth is rubbed. Sticker on front pastedown endpaper. Scattered pencil markings inside. Otherwise, most pages clean, and binding tight. A rare title by the Italian Jesuit editor Joseph Finotti (35540). A...... More
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, 1920. Paperback. 298p. Ex-library copy of a softcover book in very good condition. Usual library stamps and markings inside and on spine. Edges lightly worn and tanned. Spine crooked and creased. Otherwise clean and tight. A study of the life of St. Joseph with..... More
Washington DC: ICS Publications, 1993. First English Language Edition. Paperback. 357p. A softcover book in very good condition. The spine is a bit crinkled; otherwise clean and tight. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF EDITH STEIN Volume Five. English translations of Stein's writings. Martyred at Auschwitz, Stein was a Catholic convert and..... More
London: Collins, 1979. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. 63p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The dustjacket's spine head is minutely chipped. Edges rubbed and front flap's bottom corner clipped. Otherwise in overall..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 96p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Tanned patches on pages 82-83. Otherwise clean and tight. The dustjacket is minutely rubbed along the edges, but otherwise fully intact. A biography of St. Teresa of Avila. More
Stocksfield: Oriel Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 199p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in near-fine condition. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped, but otherwise pristine. Includes a gazetteer of religious houses for women. More
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bottom and top edges of covers and dustjacket are damaged, possibly chewed by animal. Text is undamaged. Good reading copy. More
Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2015. 1st Printing. Paperback. 237p. A new softcover book in fine condition. Lives of Dominican saints. More
Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1973. 1st paperback edition. Paperback. 740p. Tan cover. A softcover book in very good condition. Some light fading on cover, previous owner's name stamped on endpapers and title page, otherwise pages clean and tight. Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez, with introductions by..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1940. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 118p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Faint stains on cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is mildly chipped, but otherwise intact. A biography of one of the pioneers of the Sisters of the Sacred..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 203p. Navy cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: mark on cover from label, stamps on endpaper, stamp on page edge, binding shaken, cover dirtied, otherwise pages clean. A biography of Mother Marianne of Molokai who accompanied Father Damien in..... More
London: Burns, Oates, & Co., 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 215p plus 4p catalogue in back. A small, gilt, brick-red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine tanned. Old inscrtiption opposite title page. Light foxing near beginning and en of text. Otherwise clean and tight. A scarce biography of a...... More
Maryland: The Newman Press, 1958. Hardcover. 189p. Ex-library. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges bumped and cover faded. Call number on spine. Library stamp on front endpaper and other pages. Otherwise clean and tight. Contains black and white photos. More
Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1960. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 189p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. A few fragments of the dustjacket are stuck to the front cover due to light dampstaining. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly edgeworn and has a dampstained..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919. Hardcover. 268p. A green cloth hardcover book in good condition. Edges rubbed and slightly bumped. Spine crooked and slightly dirtied. Both hinges shaken but intact. Ex libris sticker on front pastedown endpaper. Address stamp and pen inscription from 1919 on front free endpaper..... More
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 151p. A gilt green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. A few pages in Chapter 1 have tiny pencil markings in the margins. Otherwise clean and tight. The cover is in excellent condition. A literary and historical criticism of the early works..... More
St. Paul, MN: Carillon Books, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 187p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. Book is clean and tight. The dustjacket is lightly worn at the head and foot of the spine. Otherwise intact. In an attempt to make sainthood seem..... More