Search Results: Catholica - Devotional from Heaven-Haven Books

16mo (5 x 7) 1st edition. Flexible black cloth with gilt titling, all edges stained red. 312pp. Cloth frayed at tail of spine with discreet rubbing to covers, with the front hinge separating at copyright page, though intact.
Binding firm with clean text.
Spiritual conferences, counsels and prayers for nurses and those discerning a vocation in nursing, for both men and women, written by Franciscan friar and popular devotional author Fulgence Meyer.
A rather uncommon copy of a specialty devotional, in serviceable shape.

Stated 1st edition. Black cloth with red and gilt stamping, 615pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (5.00) showing small closed tears to top edge and mild rubbing to covers. Else an about fine copy preserved in mylar.

Tall 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 535pp. Unclipped dust jacket (25/- net). Stated second impression. Dust jacket shows mild rubbing to rear panel, endpapers toned, ownership signature to front endpaper. A few light marks present to introduction, else unmarked. Firmly bound, square and sharp. The celebrated life of Christ by the 20th century German-Italian theologian and philosopher. An uncommon British edition in dust jacket. A handsome copy in mylar.

1st edition. Blue papered boards with blue titles, 166pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (2.75), showing minimal chipping to top edge of spine and rubbing to rear panel. Else an about fine copy. A book of meditations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.

First Edition. 8vo, beige buckram cloth with gilt titles, 111pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75), showing mild rubbing and faint marks to front panel, minor loss and sunning to spine. Contents clean, binding firm and sharp. A posthumous publication of the English Catholic mystic and devotional writer, a book of meditations for Holy Week. A lovely copy in mylar.

Reflections on the General Principles of the Religious Life, on Perfect Charity the End of the Religious Life, on Vocation, the Vows, the Rules, the Cloister Virtues and the Main Devotions of the Church. With an appendix of Maxims and Counsels of Saints and Spiritual Writers"
16mo (4.75 x 7) 911pp with 12 pages of advertisements at rear. Black cloth with gilt titles, black endpapers. Early printing, presumably before 1930 with 'New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago' listed to publisher's statement on title page. August 27th, 1907, John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York imprimatur.
Black cloth with gilt titles at spine; all edges stained red. Boards show minor fading especially around heel and crown of spine, with light foxing and discoloration to text edges. Binding is firm and square with the lightest bit of starting to front hinge at frontispiece opposite title page. Text is clean with the exception of an ink inscription to half title page.
An exceptional copy of one of the most scarce Lasance titles.

18mo (4.75 x 7) Flexible black cloth with gilt stamping, all edges stained red. 719pp with table of contents at rear. Boards show some scuffing and fading at edges, with the lettering faded and sunned to spine. Binding is firm with clean text save for a previous price in ink to front endpaper.
A devotional manual of conferences for religious, written by Franciscan Friar Minor and devotional author Fulgence Meyer, of the Province of St. John the Baptist in Cincinnati. Later printing, stated 'twenty second thousand' to title page. Foreword by Right Rev Joseph Chartrand, Bishop of Indianapolis.
A wonderfully serviceable copy of a rather scarce and once popular devotional for religious.

1st edition. Aquamarine full cloth with black titles, decorative endpapers, 106pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (two dollars) showing minimal toning and fading to covers. An about fine copy of a scarce Franciscan devotional book detailing the Stations of the Cross of St. Francis of Assisi. Beautifully illustrated and designed.

8vo (6 x 8.25). 1st edition. Very good in light blue cloth with gilt titles at spine. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) shows wear to edges and a trace of foxing to edges of flaps, with minor nicks to head and tail of spine. An attractive copy with firm binding and clean text, preserved in mylar. Bishop Sheen s book on the Blessed Virgin Mary, structured in two parts The Woman the World Loves and The World the Woman Loves. A rather scarce Sheen title.