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1st Edition. Very good in purple cloth with embossment to cover and spine. Corners bumped, light fading to spine. Unclipped dust jacket shows quarter loss to top edge of spine as well as spine edge of front cover. Soiling to endpapers and toning to pages. Else internally clean, sharp, and square. Scarce in dust jacket.

8vo. Softcover wrappers, 200pp. 1st thus. Wrappers lightly faded and rubbed with some chipping to crown of spine. Text clean, binding firm. A nice copy. The Catholic University of America Studies in American Church History Series, Vol XXXI. Text by Sister Letitia Mary Lyons of the Sisters of the Holy Names in Marylhurst, Oregon.

8vo (5.5 x 8) Stated Third Edition. Brown cloth with gilt stamping and floral embossment, gilt titles and pictorial stamping to spine. 504pp including notes. Brown endpapers, portrait of Mother Elizabeth Seton frontispiece. Boards are scuffed with fraying to corners and spine ends. Binding is fragile with some pages lightly rippled midway through text block, including a section of pages that show a closed tear down the center, but are in tact. Foxing to flyleaf and toning to pages, else contents clean with sound binding.
The third edition of the original 1853 publication by American Catholic historian, priest and native Baltimorean Charles White. Mother Anne Seton, widowed religious and founder of the parochial school system in the United States, was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975. This is the first and most authoritative and popular hagiography of the Saint. Includes plates with etchings and drawings of Mother Anne Seton and places of her residence.
An attractive copy of an antiquarian edition.

8vo (6 x 8.25) Green cloth with gilt titles, 170pp. Stated 12th printing to front flap of dust jacket (unclipped with 2.50 price). Front corners of boards are bumped with dust jacket showing minor toning and a few closed tears to top edge. Ownership signature to verso of free front endpaper, else unmarked. A handsome copy in mylar.
M. Raymond of the Abbey of Gethsemani writes of the life of Brother Mary Joachim ("from texas cowboy to Trappist monk"), a 19th century Kentucky born outlaw who became a Brother at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Warmly inscribed by Father Raymond with a portrait prayer card of Brother Joachim, printed by the Abbey, affixed to front endpaper. A handsome and collectible copy of Trappist and monastic Americana.
[from holy card] "John Green Hanning was a wild tempered youth who ran away from his father's Kentucky home to become a Texas cowboy. But his roving career ended at the gate of an austere Trappist monastery. There he was received as a lay brother and spent the rest of his… Read More

8vo, aqua blue cloth with silver titles, 408pp. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows small chips and tears to front panel, a bit of loss to head and foot of spine. Interior clean and bright, binding firm. A memoir by the Jesuit priest, Catholic convert, American racial justice activist and son of the American painter of the same name. Book is offered together with 'On Turning Seventy', a small pamphlet printed for friends upon the author's seventieth birthday, published by the America Press. A handsome copy in mylar.

Large 8vo, Red pictorial gilt embossed boards cloth with gilt bordering at spine, titular blindstamp to rear board, Cardinal John McCloskey frontispiece photo with tissue guard, 701pp plus publisher's catalog index. Spine is considerably faded with fraying to crown and tail; corners bumped with right corner frayed, binding somewhat aslant. Pages are mildly foxed, showing a gift inscription to front endpaper, else unmarked. Binding fragile though intact. A handsome copy in very good condition for age with vivid covers. First thus of a revised and expanded edition of The History of the Catholic Church in the United States, beginning with the Indian Missions and chronologically detailing the Church's settlement in U.S. states & territories up until the Western Missions of California, Nevada and Utah. Uncommon.

Tall 8vo. Softcover wrappers, uncut pages, 128pp. Wrappers rubbed especially at rear with light chipping and a closed tear to crown of spine. Contents clean, binding firm. A handsome copy. "Narrative of a Voyage to Maryland" by Father Andrew White, S.J., initially written in 1634, translated from the Latin, followed by "An Account of the Colony of the Lord Baron of Baltimore", by the Baron Cecil Calvert. Bilingual text in English and Latin. Includes an appendix of 'Extracts from Different Letters of Missionaries, From the Year 1635 to the year 1677', edited by Rev. E.A. Dalrymple, S.T.D. Fund Publication, No. 7, issued by the Maryland Historical Society and printed by John Murphy in Baltimore, 1874. 1st Latin-English trade edition thus of an exceedingly scarce work of Catholic Americana and Maryland History.