8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; (22) - 226 - (6) pp. First published in 1984 simply as "Thomas Merton", this is the Cistercian Publications' edition (Cistercian Studies Series #102) with the addition of a 40 page afterword, "Scholarship and Thomas Merton", added by the author for this edition. Twelve page listing of notes and references, 8 page select bibliography, and a 12 page general index. Previous owner's name stamped on the first page, otherwise clean with a sound binding and showing only very minor shelf wear to the edges of the covers. View More...
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 260 pp. A biography of St. Louise de Marillac (1591-1660), yes, but more than that, this is an extensive look at her spirituality and her relevance today. Sister LaFleur is a member of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston, Ontario and has dedicated years to the study of the life and teaching of de Marillac. Eight page bibliography at the back and extensive footnotes accompany each chapter. The cover edges show very mild shelf wear, otherwise very clean and tight with the appearanceof having been used very little if at all. View More...
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Montreal, Quebec., Aide a l'Eglise en Detresse.: 2015
Seller ID: 31372
ISBN: 2981083635
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
4to - 26.5 x 16.5 cm.; 64 pp. The text is in French. Preface by Mgr. Georges Casmoussa. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A series of 12 short biographies of Philomène Mujawimana, Claudia Strada, Bernadette Bona Genova Bodushka, Meena Barwa, Maria Presentación López Vivar, Hanan Youssef & Micheline Lattouf, Daniela Baronchelli, Maria Elena Díaz Tercero, Angelita Ibrahim, Karolina Mukakagina, Cacilia Zhao and Marie-Marcelle Desmarais. Previous owner's name on the first page. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, otherwise very clean and sound. View More...
Publisher:
Boston, Massachusetts., St. Paul Editions.: 1977
Seller ID: 33670
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 181 - (11) pp. Translated into English by the daughters of St. Paul. One page foreword by Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin followed by a 3 page description of Fr. Alberione by Pope Paul VI. Illustrated with a centre section of 64 pages of black and white photographs. The library markings are a label ghost/scar on the lower spine and a monastic library stamp on the first page. Previous owner's name and address on the inside of the front cover. Otherwise clean with a sound binding and showing mild wear to the edges of the covers. Otherwise clean with a sound binding. View More...
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Boston, Massachusetts., Daughters of St. Paul / St. Paul Editions.: 1959
Seller ID: 33950
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 13 cm.; 153 pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A translation of the Italian "Figura di San Paolo" by Rev. Joseph Barbero SSP which in turn was a translation of the Latin work "Effigies Divi Pauli Sive Vitae Apostolicae" which was revised and edited by Rev. Romualdo Galdos SJ. The final translating and editing for this present work was done by the Daughters of St. Paul. The library markings on the book are a stamp on the front free end paper and attachments on the back free end paper. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper also, o... View More...
Publisher:
Caraquet, New Brunswick., Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph.: 1986
Seller ID: 34189
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Fine
24mo - 14.5 x 11 cm.; 57 pp. White paper wraps with reddish lettering in a saddle stapled binding. A biography of Marie de la Ferre (born in 1589) in Roiffe, France who is described as having "the spirituality of joyful service of Jesus Christ in the most abandoned" similar to that of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. An as-new and unused booklet. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View More...
Publisher:
Saint Louis, Missouri., Fathers of the Sacerdotal Fraternity.: 1952
Seller ID: 32983
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
12mo - 18.5 x 12 cm.; 15 pp. Green and white wraps in a saddle stapled (single staple) binding. A brief biography with a 1 page chronology. Essentialy a booklet published so as to promote the cause of Fr. Prevost with that informaion on the inside of the back cover. Quite minor wear to the wraps, otherwise in a near-fine to fine condition. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View More...
Publisher:
Notre Dame, Indiana., University of Notre Dame Press.: 1963
Seller ID: 33415
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good
12mo - 18 x 10.5 cm.; xiv - 113 pp. Translated from the French edition, 'Quatre Saints", of 1951 by Dorothea O'Sullivan. "Following an introductory essay on holiness, the author examines four kinds of spirituality; those of Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Francis de Sales." The library markings are a label on the lower spine, a pocket and stamp on the first page and another quite small pocket on the inside of the back cover. Wear and scuffing to the covers and the spine is faded. Otherwise clean with a sound binding. View More...
Publisher:
Montreal, Quebec., Les Editions Paulines.: 1988
Seller ID: 33470
ISBN: 2890391817
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; 415 pp. The text is in French. Illustrated with 12 pages of black and white photographs. Three page fold-out chart facing page 336, "La vie du Père Frédéric et son contexte historique" which covers 1830 to 1920. Père Frédéric Janssoone OFM, lived from 1838 to 1916. Very mild wear to the edges of the covers, else fine. View More...
Publisher:
Lanham, Maryland., University Press of America.: 1991
Seller ID: 4525
ISBN: 0819182214
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Near Fine
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; viii - 244 pp. Footnotes, Bibliography, Index. Petre (1863-1942) was an aristocratic Victorian English woman who was involved in what has come to be known as Roman Catholic Modernism and was an associate of George Tyrrell, von Hugel and Bremond. The text block edges show slight soiling, else fine. View More...
Publisher:
Montreal, Quebec., Centre Missionaire Ste Therese.:
Seller ID: 31499
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 45 - (3) pp. The text is in French. No date of publication is given. Full colour card stock wraps in a saddle stapled binding. A series of 20 excerpts from the writings of St. Thérèse each illustrated with a reproduction of a painting by Zotique Steben. The illustration is on the verso of the page (left hand side) and the text is on the facin recto (right hand side). The top fore edge coner of the booklet has a slight crease, otherwise clean with a sound binding. All-in-all, a rather beautiful presentation. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it i... View More...
Publisher:
London, UK., The Office of the Vice-Postulation.: (1961)
Seller ID: 34065
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 23 pp. White paper wraps with green lettering in a saddle stapled binding. John Kemble was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Four page appendix of an anonymous poem composed in the early 1800's about John Kemble. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View More...
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; (8) - 277 pp. Dark brown cloth over boards with yellow lettering on the spine. First published in 1967. this is the revised edition with corrections. Forty-three pages of notes, a 10 page bibliography and a 15 page index. Minor wear and light fading to the edges of the boards, otherwise very clean with a sound binding. The dust jacket is faded on the spine and the margins and worn on the edges. View More...
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; viii - 215 pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering (a tad faded) on the spine. Illustrated with a black and white frontis drawing of the saint and a black and white map on page viii, "The Land of St. Alphonsus". The library markings, none of which are external, are a stamp on the title page and a pocket on the back paste down end paper. Mild shelf wear to the spine tips and the fore corners of the boards, otherwise very clean with a sound binding. View More...
Publisher:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin., Bruce Publishing.: 1958
Seller ID: 34075
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; viii - 215 pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a black and white frontis drawing of the saint and a black and white map on page viii, "The Land of St. Alphonsus". Very mild wear to the spine tips, otherwise very clean with a sound binding. The unclipped dust jacket has mild wear to the edges. View More...
Publisher:
Edmonton, Alberta., Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Alberta.: 1989
Seller ID: 33457
ISBN: 0920862683
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xxiv - 485 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Twelve page introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan. Extensive footnotes throughout. Six page chronology. Two full page black and white maps along with 53 other illustrations. Two appendices "Szeptycki / Sheptyts'kyi Genealogy" by Andrzej A. Zieba with charts one of which is a 4 page fold-out, and "Toronto Conference on Andrei Sheptyts'kyi" and lastly a 27 page index. Very minor wear to the spine tips, otherwise fine. The dust jacket is faded on the spine, else fine. View More...
Publisher:
Cambridge, UK., The Little Sisters of Joy.: 2014
Seller ID: 31567
ISBN: 0955300711
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Fine
8vo - 21 x 14.5 cm.; 130 pp. A description of the author's life from 1999 to 2009 and "my love affair, set to last a lifetime, with Canada and particularly Toronto, which I regards as my spiritual home." Illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by the author with an inscription on the title page. Loosely laid in are 3 sheets of paper, 2 describing the book and the community of sisters and the third, a signed letter from the the author to a Canadian prelate. View More...
Publisher:
New York., Editions De La Maison Francaise: 1941
Seller ID: 11448
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Good+
8vo - 22 x 17 cm.; 42 - [6] pp. Ivory covers with a yap on the fore edge of the covers. Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1939 as one of the reflections in "I Believe" - a collection edited by Clifton Fadiman and put together so as to provide ". . . a spiritual and intellectual last will and testament to our generation . . ." Rather humbling to read now. The essay is a faithful translation of the original English of 1939 with some minor additions. As to condition: the covers are soiled, the yapped fore edge is creased and the fore edge corners are splayed. Interior is clean. This e... View More...
Publisher:
New York., Holt, Rhinehart and Winston.: 1968
Seller ID: 32806
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; vii - (3) - 277 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt and white lettering on the spine, gilt device on front board. The text block head edge is stained a pale yellow as issued. Translated from the French of 1966 "Le Paysan de la Garonne: Un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps présent" by Michael Cuddihy and Elizabeth Hughes. First published in English in February of 1968, this is a stated first edition on the copyright page. Maritain wrote this when he was 85 years old. He takes apart the "modern theology" for he sees the new trends as kneeling before... View More...
Publisher:
Westminster, Maryland., The Newman Press.: 1950
Seller ID: 30619
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; vii - 364 pp. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Mapped front end papers. First published in 1936, this is the second printing. Seven page bibliography and an 8 page index. The library markings are a label and a label scar on the lower spine, a stamp on the title page and attachment remains on the back paste down end paper. Minor wear to the fore corners of the boards and the spine crown, moderate wear to the the tail of the spine and the lower third of both front and back joints. The interior is otherwise very clean and the binding is sound. A clea... View More...
