M.J. Spalding

Sketches of the Life, Times, and Character of the Rt. Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget, First Bishop of Louisville

Lousiville, Webb & Levering, 1852. First Edition, First Printing. Leather. 405p; 8p catalogue in back. Ex-library. A hardcover book bound in 1/4 black leather with marbled green boards. Acceptable reading condition. Edges heavily scuffed; lots of little rub marks on the boards. Label on spine; stamps, call number, bookplate, and card pocket inside. Pages browned and foxed with age. Scattered pencil marginalia, but most text unmarked, and binding tight. Mid-19th century biography of Bishop Flaget, who died in 1850. Fair .

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Book number: 188638

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Walter Starkie

The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James

New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 339p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good reading condition with dustjacket. Label on spine; stamps, call number, bookplate, and card pocket inside. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is worn along the edges and encased in an old mylar cover with a label on the spine. Scarce memoir of a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Fair .

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Book number: 188335

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Karl Stern

The Pillar of Fire

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. Hardcover. 310p. Ex-library. A black cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Corners and spine ends worn, and sticker residue on spine. Library markings and card pocket residue inside. Text itself is clean and binding is tight. The author's account of his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism. Fair .

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Book number: 182579

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Maria Sticco

Father Gemelli: Notes for the Biography of a Great Man

Chicago, Franciscan Herald Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 302p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is mildly worn, with a tiny tear on the edge of the rear flap fold and a small closed tear at the bottom of the spine. Otherwise intact and clean. A very scarce biography of Fr. Agostino Gemelli (1878-1959), a Franciscan friar and psychologist who was commissioned by the Vatican to examine the wounds of Padre Pio. .

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Book number: 180182

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Werenfried von Straaten

They Call Me Bacon Priest

Haarlem, N.V. Drukkerij De Spaarnestad, 1961. Paperback. 155p. A small softcover book in very good condition. The spine is creased. Otherwise clean and tight. Father von Straaten was a Dutch missionary who worked among World War II refugees. This is his memoir, containing many black and white photographs. Measures approx. 7" x 4.25.

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Book number: 143372

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Rev. D.J. O'Sullivan

Life Sketch of Mother Mary Lawrence, F.M. M.

Boston, Propagation of the Faith Society, 1919. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 58p. A red pictorial cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Light shelf wear and a few pale stains on cover. Signature on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. Contains black and white photographs. Mother Lawrence was an American missionary in China in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. .

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Book number: 148844

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

David Francis Sweeney

The Life of John Lancaster Spalding: First Bishop of Peoria, 1840-1916

New York, Herder and Herder, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 384p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Small white smudge at top of back cover and owner's signature on front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly rubbed, but fully intact. Spalding co-founded the Catholic University of America and was the primary compiler of the Baltimore Catechism. Very Good .

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Book number: 193540

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Christopher Sykes

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First American Edition. Hardcover. 462p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Inscription inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly edgeworn, but intact. Contains black and white photographs. .

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Book number: 160797

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Jennie Masters Tabb

Father Tabb: His Life and Work

Boston, The Stratford Company, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 174p. Ex-library hardcover book in good condition. Original red cloth. Old label on spine, labels/stamps on endpapers and title page. Text is clean and complete, tight and unmarked. A biography of the priest and poet, John Bannister Tabb. The author was Father Tabb's niece. Contains many black and white plates. .

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Book number: 1249376

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

William Luke Tancrell, ed

Edward Dominic Fenwick: Papers 1803-1832; Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop

New York, The Dominican Province of St. Joseph, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 428p. Ex-library. A large, glossy hardcover book in excellent reading condition. Virtually like new, but for a library label on the spine and a card pocket inside the back cover. Text clean and binding tight. The collected letters of the first bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio. Measures approx. 11.25" x 8.75. Fair .

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Book number: 189468

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Maria del Carmen Tapia

Beyond the Threshold: A Life in Opus Dei

New York, Continuum, 1998. Paperback. 364p. Ex-library. A softcover book in good reading condition. Spine lightly creased, and cover lamination starting to form air bubbles salong the edges. Label on spine; library stamps, call number, and card pocket inside; otherwise clean and tight. Fair .

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Book number: 188583

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

P. Franco Teodori

IL Beato Guido Maria Conforti: Arcivescovo-Vescovo Di Parma

Vatican City, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1999. Paperback. 440p. A new softcover book. Text in Italian. .

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Book number: 150968

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Sister Mary Teresa

The Fruit of His Compassion: The Life of Mother Mary Veronica, Foundress of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion

New York, Pageant Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 563p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustjacket. The book is clean and tight, and the jacket barely shelf-worn. An excellent copy! Foreword by Cardinal Spellman. Very Good .

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Book number: 186487

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Sister Mary Teresa

Purchase Price: The Story of Mother Mary Agnes

Toledo, OH, Monastery of the Visitation, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 166p. Ex-library. A softcover book in good reading condition. Spine is tanned and spotted with stains. Uneven fading on the covers. Label on spine; convent stamp, bookplate, and card pocket inside. Text clean and binding tight. Biography of Mary Agnes Faulhaber, foundress of the Toledo branch of the Sisters of the Visitation. Fair .

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Book number: 188573

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

Herbert Van Thal, ed

Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. 386p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Light stains on cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is mildly edgeworn. Otherwise fully intact. A chronological sampling of Hilaire Belloc's writings, augmented by the editor's biographical notes. .

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Book number: 147223

Catalogue: Catholic Biography