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New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt black labels to spine and front board, gray top edge, original dust jacket. Slight edge-wear. Near-fine. "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE CHURCH WRITTEN BY THE MOST CATHOLIC OF HER GREAT SAINTS" Modern Library edition of Saint Augustine's Theology of History, complete in the original dust jacket.… Read more about this item

New York: Alba House, 1965. First American edition. Octavo, original red linen boards, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine with short closed tear to top and faint toning to the bottom of dust jacket. About fine. First American edition of this biography of Augustine's formative years, centering on the Confessions, and illustrated with 3 plates. The text is prefaced… Read more about this item

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935 . First edition. Small octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Minor soiling to yellow cloth and top of textblock, trace of foxing to the fore-edge, dust jacket spine toned with creasing to the ends, modest soiling on both panels. Rare complete with original dust jacket. Very good indeed. FOUR SINGULAR CATHOLIC LIVES.… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. Year of publication in ink at base of title page, slight toning to spine and creasing to inner flap rear panel of dust jacket. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket. "THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND POLITICAL… Read more about this item

New York: Paulist Press, 1988. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Pencil note to front pastedown: "inscribed to Fr. David Bromfield, professor at CUA." Book about-fine with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor edge-wear to upper corners and spine. First edition of this critical edition of the diaries of Isaac Hecker, covering the years 1843-1845.… Read more about this item

"TO HAVE REMAINED INDEFINITELY AS AN ANGLICAN WOULD NOW MEAN FOR ME SPIRITUAL DEATH" First edition recounting Edward Charles Rich's 1956 "submission to the Catholic and Roman Church," in the original typographic dust jacket. Rich's Anglo-Catholicism grew into an Anglo-Papalism, driven by a desire for unity and a need for authority. The text, divided into nine chapters, concludes with Rich's epiphany:… Read more about this item