Catholica - Americana from Heaven-Haven Books

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 (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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item