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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
