Joseph G. Cosgrove

Accent on Laughter: A Life Sketch of Father Lawrence A. Conley, M.M. , Maryknoll Missioner in South China

New York, McMullen Books, Inc, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 102p. Ex-library. A softcover book in FAIR condition. Back cover is nearly detached and also lightly stained. Spine creased and rubbed, and faint stains on front cover. Label on spine; call number and card pocket inside. Otherwise, text clean and pages tightly bound, despite damaged cover. READING COPY ONLY. Fair .

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Book number: 189494

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Michael Crosby, ed

Solanus Casey: The Official Account of a Virtuous American Life

New York, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000. Paperback. 275p. A softcover book in fine condition, as new. Casey was beatified in 2017. As New .

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Book number: 194126

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Claude Cuenot

Teilhard de Chardin: A Biographical Study

Baltimore, Helicon, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 492p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good reading condition with dustjacket. Call number on spine. Library markings and card pocket residue inside, but text clean and binding tight. The jacket is lightly rubbed, but encased in an old mylar cover with library markings. Fair .

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Book number: 182602

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

James F. Cunningham

American Pastor in Rome

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. 285p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Tape stains on edges of cover and on endpapers. Convent stamp inside; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly wrinkled and sunfaded, but intact. The autobiography of an American priest who spent most of his clerical career in Rome. Illustrated with two sections of black and white photographs. Very Good .

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Book number: 190496

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

David B. Currie

Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1996. Paperback. 215p. A softcover book in good reading condition. Edges rubbed and exensive notes and underlining in text. Binding is tight. The conversion memoir of a former fundamendalist Protestant. Fair .

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Book number: 194309

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Georgina Pell Curtis

Some Roads to Rome in America: Being Personal Records of Conversions to the Catholic Church

St. Louis, B. Herder, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 532p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Edges rubbed, spine toned, and binding slightly cockeyed, though still tight. Call number on spine and seminary library markings inside. However, text itself is clean. Fair .

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Book number: 195142

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Viscount St. Cyres

Francois de Fenelon

Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, 1970. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. 311p. A brown cloth hardcover book in fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. 1970 reprint from Kennikat Press; originally published in 1901. .

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Book number: 160619

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

A Sister of Notre Dame

The Message of Francis Thompson

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 77p. Spine red cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Previous owner's name, endpaper clipped, endpapers darkened, corners bumped, otherwise pages clean and tight. A paper written about the writings of Francis Thompson, a British poet who was a devout Catholic. .

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Book number: 125421

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

V. F. O'Daniel

The Right Rev. Edward Dominic Fenwick: Pioneer Missionary in Kentucky, Apostle of Ohio, First Bishop of Cincinnati

Washington DC, The Dominica, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. 473p. Brown cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: mark from sticker on spine, stamp on page edges, stamp on title page and endpapers. Some fading on endpapers, previous owner's name, corners bumped. Otherwise clean and tight. Fair .

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Book number: 1214925

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Rev. V.F. O'Daniel

Very Rev. Charles Hyacinth Mckenna, O.P. , P.G. , Missionary and Apostle of the Holy Name Society

New York, The Holy Name Bureau, 1917. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 409p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Spine slightly faded. Label on spine, stamps on endpapers and title page, and card pocket in back. Early owner's inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. Good .

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Book number: 197470

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Gavan Davis

Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1973. Softcover. A softcover book in good condition. Light shelf wear to cover edgesand corners. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated cover. 293p. A biogrpahy of St. Damien de Veuster, often known as "Damien the Leper" or simply Father Damien. This book follows his ministry to lepers at a remote colony in Kalawao up until his death from leprosy, contracted at the settlement. Father Damien is one of the great saints of the 19th century, so clearly a witness to the Gospel that even the New York Times called for immediate canonization following his death. .

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Book number: 123276

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Helen Caldwell Day

Color, Ebony

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 182p. Ex-library. A mint-green hardcover book in good reading condition. Call number on spine, dustjacket clipping taped on front endpaper, and seminary library stamps inside. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The memoirs of a black American woman who converted to Catholicism and was part of the Catholic Worker Movement. Fair .

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Book number: 194674

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Dorothy Day

From Union Square to Rome

Silver Spring, MD, Preservation of the Faith Press, 1939. 1st Edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. 173p. Ex-library. A salmon-pink cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Spine tanned, slightly cockeyed, and marked with a call number. Glue stain inside front cover. Owner's inscription and various library stamps on endpapers, title page, and a few inner pages. Text itself is clean and binding is secure. A sturdy reading copy. A scarce publication by the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. In this memoir, Dorothy Day describes her conversion to Catholicism. .

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Book number: 173340

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Helen Caldwell Day

Not without Tears

New York, Sheed and Ward, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 270p. A beige hardcover book in good condition. Possibly ex-library, as there is sticker residue on the spine and portions of the jacket were once taped to the endpapers, leaving behind some additional residue. A few retreat house stamps inside, but text unmarked and binding tight. A black woman's memoirs of becoming Catholic. Scarce. .

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Book number: 179956

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Ilia Delio

Birth of a Dancing Star: From Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian

Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, 2019. Paperback. 218p. A softcover book in very good condition. Dampstaining on back cover and last 50 or so pages. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 193708

Catalogue: Catholic Biography