Mystic from Star of the Sea Books

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

Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 2005. First edition thus. Octavo, original navy paper boards, ribbon marker, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to edges of dust jacket, book and dust jacket both about-fine. Modern small press edition of The Little Flowers of St. Francis. A smart reprint of the 1915 edition, translated by H. E. Cardinal Manning and featuring 8… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1983. Later edition. Octavo, original pale green boards over brown cloth, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, gentle bump to top corner. An about-fine copy. "THE MOST COMPLETE STANDARD EDITION OF THE NOBEL LAUREATE'S VERSE" First printing of this comprehensive critical edition of William Butler Yeats's poems, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Authorized by Anne and… Read more about this item

London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine. "CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like… 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