MGR RONALD KNOX: A GREAT TEACHER
London: CTS Publications, 1995. Pamphlet. A clean, tight softcover pamphlet in very good condition. Lavendar and white cover. 20p. More
Catholic Biography
THE TRIALS OF A MIND in Its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 233p. A dark brown embossed cloth hardcover book in good condition. Edges lightly worn. Corners a bit bumped. Lacks front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The author was an Episcopal bishop in North Carolina who eventually converted to Catholicism during a trip..... More
CLAUDE DUBUIS: Bishop of Galveston
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., 1947. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 268p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good condition with a like dustjacket. Library markings, stamps, and card pocket inside. Stamp on bottom edge of text block. No library marks on jacket. Text clean and binding tight. The jacket is chipped..... More
LIFE OF MERE MARIE DE LA PROVIDENCE: Foundress of the Helpers of the Holy Souls
London: Burns & Oates, 1904. 4th edition. Hardcover. 318p. Red cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-librayr: number painted on spine, stamp on endpaper and title page, otherwise clean and tight. With preface and appendix by the Rev. Sydney F. Smith. More
A SHORT MEMOIR OF ESTERINA ANTINORI
Dublin: M.H.Gill and Son, Ltd., 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. 119p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine and corners bumped. Spine dirtied. Front and back endpapers slightly tanned. Text clean and tight. The memoirs of a young girl, raised in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in..... More
BENEDICT IN THE WORLD: Portraits of Monastic Oblates
Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002. Paperback. 211p. A softcover book in very good condition. 2" crease on front cover, where there is also some price sticker residue. Former owner's gift inscription on title page. Otherwise clean and tight. A collection of short biographies of oblates of the Order of..... More
NEWMAN: HIS LIFE AND SPIRITUALITY
New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. Paperback. Light shelf wear to edges of covers. Sun fading on spine. Otherwise a clean, tight paperback book in good condition. 387p. More
THE APPRENTICE SAINT
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 269p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition with cream dustjacket in good condition. Corners and spine lightly rubbed and bumped. Text clean and tight. Dustjacket edges rubbed and bumped, with slight nicking around spine at top and bottom. Retelling of..... More
MAN OF THE BEATITUDES: Pier Giorgio Frassati
Ottawa: Novalis, 2000. Paperback. 170p. A softcover book in fine condition. Small, faint crease and price sticker residue on front cover. Back cover very lightly soiled. Otherwise clean and tight. A biography of the Italian Catholic activist. Introduction by Karl Rahner. The author was Pier Giorgio Frassati's sister. Includes a...... More
DEATH'S DECEIVER: The Life of John P. Machebeuf
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 280p. New unread hardcover book, still in shrinkwrap. A biography of the first bishop of Denver. More
THE ABBE EDGEWORTH (1745-1807)
New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 202p. Brown cloth. Ex-library hardcover book in good reading condition. Clean and tight other than a few library onwership markings. More
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1943. Hardcover. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper. Light shelf wear to boards with a tiny puncture mark at spine. Otherwise a tight, clean hardcover book in good condition. Red cloth boards. 685p. More
THE WILFRID WARDS AND THE TRANSITION I. The Nineteenth Century
Somerset: Sheed & Ward Inc., 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 428p. Ex-library. Red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Corners bumped and cover faded and discolored. Call number on spine. Library stamp on half title page and back endpaper. Card pocket and due date paper glued on back endpapers. Closed tear..... More
CONFESSIONS OF A TWENTIETH-CENTURY PILGRIM
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. 150p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. Muggeridge's account of his conversion to Catholicism. More
THEY CALL ME FATHER: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a very good dust jacket. Tight pages throughout the book. 203p, illus. Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The Corsican- born priest worked in British Columbia in..... More
SECOND SOWING: The Life of Mary Aloysia Hardey
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1942. Anne Pracny. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 495p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn and has a small smudge at the top of the front panel. Otherwise intact..... More
THE SANDS OF TAMANRASSET: The Story of Charles de Foucauld
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 279p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is lightly edgeworn, and the spine is faded. Otherwise intact. Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) studied and worked among the..... More
THAT ALL MAY BE ONE: Ut Omnes Unum Sint
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 187p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is lightly rubbed and has a faded spine. Otherwise intact. A biography of Mother Maria Gabrielle, a Trappistine..... More
THE THREE SISTERS OF LORD RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN and Their Convent Life
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912. Hardcover. 310p. A gilt-decorated navy blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Endpapers have tanned patches. Cover is lightly rubbed, and the back panel has a few small, faint stains near the bottom. Otherwise clean and tight. The story of three Irish Sisters..... More
GILBERT: The Man Who Was G.K. Chesterton
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 270p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. The book is clean and tight. The dustjacket's glossy coating is creased along the edge folds, and there are faint indentations on the front where a preice sticker was..... More
THE CARDIJN STORY: A study of the life of Mgr. Joseph Cardijn and the Young Christian Workers' Movement which he founded
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1959. Hardcover. 196p. A very good hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. Some spotting on back jacket, a few chips on spine, otherwise clean and tight. Includes some b/w photographs. More
CARDINAL BERNARD GRIFFIN: Archbishop of Westminster
London: Rockliffe, 1955. Hardcover. 131p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. Former owner's isncription on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. the dustjacket is minutely chipped, and the spine is faded. the back is slightly tanned. Otherwise in excellent condition. A biography..... More
CHEERFUL ASCETIC: The Life of Francis Xavier Seelos, C.SS.R.
New Orleans: The Redemptorist Fathers, New Orleans Vice Province, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 436p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Corners bumped and pen notes on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and, though hinges are a touch shaken, securely bound. A German Redemptorist missionary in the United..... More
BISHOP CHALLONER: A Biographical Study Derived from Dr. Edwin Burton's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BISHOP CHALLONER
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 285p. A brick-red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine sunned. Endpapers foxed. Signature on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. A biography of Richard Challoner (1691-1781), and English Catholic bishop. Contains a few black and white plates. More
PUGIN: A Mediaeval Victorian
London: Sheed & Ward, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 357p. Red cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Some light cover wear, previous owner's name, otherwise pages clean and tight. A biography of Augustus Pugin, English architect and designer, who brought about a revival of Gothic architecture and designed the..... More