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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, tan full cloth with brown titles, 367pp. Price clipped dust jacket. Reprint edition, from the original 1930 text. Boards show minor fading, toning to endpapers, dust jacket toned with a few small chips to edges. Firmly bound with clean text. An anthology of essays on Saint Augustine, first published on his feast day in 1930, the fifteenth centenary of his death. Includes essays by Christopher Dawson, Jacques Maritain, Erich Przywara, Etenne Gilson, Maurice Blondel, and various English Jesuits. A handsome copy in mylar. Scarce.

8vo (5.5 x 8) Stated 1st edition. Black cloth with rosary wrapped lily escutcheon to front board, gilt titles at spine. 273pp. Lily and sacred heart motifs stamped to endpapers, bevelled page edges, top edge stained red. Near fine with light bumping to cloth at spine. Lacks the scarce dust wrapper.
A biography of St. Teresa of Avila by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, wife of G.K. Chesterton. In the first Chapter, she strikingly compares the vitalities of St. Teresa to that of her husband's famous nemesis, George Bernard Shaw. "These two great figures, the fervent Catholic, the fastidious Protestant, can join hans across the centuries in their persistent hunger for experience, their relentless courage toward life. Each soul flourish best in its fit soil, and the end for all is surely the attainment of an increasing and eternal growth."