Norman Hapgood and Henry Moskowitz

Up from the City Streets: Alfred E. Smith; a Biographical Study in Contemporary Politics

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 4th printing. Hardcover. 349p. Ex-library. A brown cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Edges visibly worn; a few small nicks in the edges as well. Label on spine; bookplate, stamps, call number, and card pocket inside. Otherwise clean and tight. A biography of Al Smith, the first Catholic to be nominated for the presidency. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fair .

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Book number: 188970

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Norman Hapgood and Henry Moskowitz

Up from the City Streets: Alfred E. Smith; a Biographical Study in Contemporary Politics

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. 4th printing. Hardcover. 349p. A brown cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Binding is slightly cockeyed, but still tight, and the corners are lightly bumped. The text is unmarked. Biography of the first Catholic to be named as a major political party's presidential candidate. Al Smith was the Democratic candidate in the 1928 election; he lost to Herbert Hoover, due in part to anti-Catholic bigotry so widespread in his day. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very Good .

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Book number: 191940

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

John A. Hardon

A Prophet for the Priesthood: A Spiritual Biography of Father Gerald M.C. Fitzgerald

Bardstown, KY, Eternal Life, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 174p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Owner's gift inscription inside front cover; otherwise like new. Text clean and binding tight. An uncommon biography of the Catholic priest who founded the Handmaids of the Precious Blood, focusing on his priestly spirituality. Very Good .

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Book number: 191980

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Bernard Haring

Free and Faithful: An Autobiography; My Life in the Catholic Church

Liguori, MO, Liguori/Triumph, 1998. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 194p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. The book appears unread. Memoir's of the German Catholic priest and famed 20th century theologian. Contains a few black and white photographs. As new .

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Book number: 142261

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Sr. Caroline Hemesath

From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854-1897), First Black American Priest of the United States

San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 2006. Hardcover. 251p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket, as new. Reprint of a book originally published in 1973. Fr. Tolton was declared Venerable in 2019. As New .

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Book number: 195513

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Lady Herbert

A Short Memoir of Esterina Antinori

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, Ltd, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. 119p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine and corners bumped. Spine dirtied. Front and back endpapers slightly tanned. Text clean and tight. The memoirs of a young girl, raised in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rome, who died at age seventeen after a pious life. .

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Book number: 125497

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Rev. George S. Hitchcock

A Pilgrim of Eternity: The Story of a Unitarian Minister

London/St. Louis, Catholic Truth Society/B. Herder, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 252p. Ex-library. A red cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Call number on spine and seminary stamps inside. Endpapers tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. Hitchcock tells the story of his Unitarian friend's conversion to Catholicism. Fair .

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Book number: 194928

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Michael D. Hoffman

Acts of Recovery: The Story of One Man's Ongoing Healing from Sexual Abuse by a Priest

Chicago, ACTA Publications, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 95p. A thin softcover book in fine condition, as new. As New .

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Book number: 195573

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Henry Hogarth

Henri Bremond: The Life and Work of a Devout Humanist

London, S.P.C.K. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 180p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a dustjacket in very good condition. The book is clean and tight, except for two very light scratch marks in the front cover cloth. The jacket is lightly edgeworn, but otherwise intact. Bremond (1865-1933) was a Jesuit philosopher. This biography contains occasional black and white photographs. .

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Book number: 146584

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Vincent F. Holden

The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker

Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 508p. A hardcover book in very good condition, lacking the dustjacket. Blue cloth. Covers mildly rubbed. Otherwise clean and tight. Contains black and white photographs. Very good .

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Book number: 1272307

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Vincent F. Holden

The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker

Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 508p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Edges mildly rubbed. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly tanned and edgeworn, but still fully intact. Contains black and white photographs. Very good .

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Book number: 148285

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Helen Walker Homan

Star of Jacob: The Story of the Venerable Francis Libermann, Founder of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 329p. A hardcover book in very good condition with partial dustjacket. Edges lightly worn and spine faintly sunned. Small tape stains on endpapers; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is lacking the back panel and back flap. The spine and front panel are quite chipped and edgeworn, but protected in a mylar cover. A scarce biography of the founder of the Spiritans. Very Good .

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Book number: 182679

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Georges Huber

My Door Is Always Open

Notre Dame, IN, Fides Publishers Association, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 158p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a FAIR dustjacket. Some faint soiling on the cover; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket has a large closed tear across the back and some chipping along the top. A biography of Cardional Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna. .

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Book number: 180457

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[Christine Hoiningen-Huene]

Sister Augustine, an Old Catholic: Superior of the Sisters of Charity in the St. Joannis Hospital at Bonn

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 338p. A brick-red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges mildly rubbed; very faint soiling here and there on the cloth. Early owner's name on title page. Patchy tanning in gutter of pages 118-119. Otherwise clean and tight. A biography of Amalie von Lasaulx (1815-1872), a Catholic nun who joined the Old Catholic schism after the First Vatican Council. Very Good .

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Book number: 187902

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

David Abner Hurn

Archbishop Roberts S.J. : His Life and Writings

London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1966. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 196p. Ex-seminary library copy of a brown cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Apart from having the usual library stamps and markings, plus a sticker on the spine, the book is clean and tight. First edition of this biography of Thomas Roberts, an English Jesuit who was Archbishop of Bompbay, India. Contains an appendix featuring an interview of Archbishop Roberts conducted by James Mossman and Stanley Burke. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. .

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Book number: 142407

Catalogue: Catholic Biography