James E. Walsh

Zeal for Your House

Huntington, IN, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 235p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Tiny indentations in bottom corner of front cover, affecting the jacket in the same area. Front board is also slightly warped. Light foxing on top edge; otherwise clean and tight. Jacket is lightly rubbed, but intact. The memoirs of one of the first Maryknoll missionaries to China, where he was eventually imprisoned by the Communists. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good .

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Book number: 189225

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Rev. C.A. Walworth

Reminiscences of Edgar P. Wadhams, First Bishop of Ogdensburg

New York, Benziger Brothers, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 197p. A gilt brick-red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges minutely rubbed. 1" closed tear in first blank page. Otherwise clean and tight. Bishop Wadhams (1817-1891) was the first bishop of Ogdensburg, New York. He was a convert to Catholicism from Episcopalism. This work contains black and white photographs. Floral patterned endpapers. .

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Book number: 146662

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Fr. Maximilian Walz

Life of Sister Mary Reparata Rose of the Sacred Heart, O.P. (the Child of My Sacrament of Love)

New York, Jose L. Morales, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 149p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a very good dustjacket. Pages mildly age-toned, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is lightly worn along the edges, and there is evidence of a peeled-off sticker straddling the bottom of the spine. Otherwise intact. A very scarce biography of an American Catholic nun and mystic, written by a priest in whom she confided about her ecstatic visions. Very Good .

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Book number: 186486

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Maisie Ward

Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric

New York, Sheed and Ward, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 329p. Ex-library. A green cloth hardcover book in POOR CONDITION. Spine tanned and all edges heavily worn; head of spine and entire bottom edge are reinforced with heavy-duty cloth tape. Label on spine; bookplate, stamps, call number, and card pocket inside. Scattered marginalia, but most text clean, and binding tight. Fair .

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Book number: 188976

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Louis B. Ward

Father Charles E. Coughlin: An Authorized Biography

Detroit, Tower Publications, Incorporated, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 352p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound with a black cloth spine, retaining the original blue cloth boards. POOR CONDITION. Edges worn through and library labels on the spine. REAR HINGE COMPLETELY CRACKED, but pages are still attached. Light stain on page 7 and tear in rear endpaper. Various library markings inside, but text itself unmarked. A damaged but readable copy, OFFERED AS-IS. The life of the controversial Catholic radio host. Fair .

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Book number: 189461

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Maisie Ward

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1943. Hardcover. Former owner's signature on front free endpaper. Light shelf wear to boards with a tiny puncture mark at spine. Otherwise a tight, clean hardcover book in good condition. Red cloth boards. 685p. .

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Book number: 123806

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Wilfrid Ward

The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and Correspondence - 2 Volumes

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1912. Hardcover. Vol I: 654p. Vol II: 627p. Black cloth. 2 hardcover books in poor condition. Spine of cover missing on Volume 2 and detached on Volume 1. Covers very worn, previous owner's name, otherwise textblock tight and unmarked. Complete in 2 Volumes. .

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Book number: 1215043

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Franz Werfel

The Song of Bernadette

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. Hardcover. A clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition. Gray cloth boards. 575p. Franz Werfel's well-known biography of St. Bernadette Soubirous, who encountered the Blessed Mother at the apparition in Lourdes. This story of Bernadette was adapted for the 1943 film with the same name. .

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Book number: 123495

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Keywords: saints

William Weston

An Autobiography from the Jesuit Underground

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 259p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Address label on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is worn at the head and foot of spine. Other edges are mildly worn, but there are a few small closed tears, each 1" or less. The autobiography of a Jesuit priest imprisoned in Elizabethan England. Scarce in dustjacket. Introduction by Evelyn Waugh. Translated by Philip Caraman. .

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Book number: 164601

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Margaret Whitehead, ed

They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola

Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a very good dust jacket. Tight pages throughout the book. 203p, illus. Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The Corsican- born priest worked in British Columbia in the 19th century. .

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Book number: 132388

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Lancelot Law Whyte, ed

Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. , F.R. S. , 1711-1787: Studies of His Life and Work on the 250th Anniversary of His Birth

New York, Fordham University Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 230p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Labels on spine and back cover. Bookplate and card pocket on endpapers; additional library marks and an owner's signature on title page. Dustjacket clippings pasted to front endpaper. Plates lightly foxed. Scattered marks in the margins and a few notes in the index; most pages still clean, and binding tight. A study of a Catholic priest and polymath of Croatian-Italian descent. Fair .

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Book number: 198339

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

The Earl of Wicklow, tr

More About Dom Marmion: A Study of His Writings Together with a Chapter from an Unpublished Work and a Biographical Sketch

St. Louis, B. Herder Book Co, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 128p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Small white smudge on back cover. Convent stamps on endpapers, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is crinkled all over and lightly soiled on the back. Very light edge wear, but otherwise intact. A very scarce biographical study of Benedictine monk Columba Marmion (1858-1923), who was beatified in 2000. Very Good .

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Book number: 186974

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Allen Sinclair Will

Life of Cardinal Gibbons: Archbishop of Baltimore (2 Volumes)

New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1922. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. Ex-library. A set of two red cloth hardcover books in good condition. No library markings on exteriors. Corners lightly bumped. Smudges on spine of volume I. Stamps and paste residue on endpapers. Rough-cut page edges are a bit ragged and flaky on volume I. Otherwise clean and tight. An uncommon biography of James Cardinal Gibbons, illustrated with occasional black and white plates. .

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Book number: 166888

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Folkestone Williams

Lives of the English Cardinals; Including Historical Notices of the Papal Court, from Nicholas Breakspear (Pope Adrian IV. ) to Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Legate. (2 Volumes)

London, Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1868. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. 484p; 543p. Rebound. Ex-library. A set of two hardcover books rebound in green cloth. Call numbers on spines. Card pockets inside back covers. Many library stamps inside both volumes. Otherwise, text free of notes and underlining, and bindings tight. .

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Book number: 162180

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Margaret Williams

Second Sowing: The Life of Mary Aloysia Hardey

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 495p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn and has a small smudge at the top of the front panel. Otherwise intact. A biography of a Sister of the Sacred Heart. Illustrated by Anne Pracny. Ill.: Anne Pracny.

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Book number: 166904

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Keywords: Anne Pracny