Francis C. Kelley

Leters to Jack Written by a Priest to His Nephew

Chicago, Extension Press, 1917. Second Edition. Hardcover. 254p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Corners bumped, cloth faintly soiled, and hinges a bit shaken from years of handling. Pages still securely attached and text unmarked. Advice for young men by a Catholic priest. .

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Book number: 202071

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Matthew Kelly

The Rocking Chair Prophet

Blue Sparrow, 2023. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 306p. A hardcover book in essentially fine condition with a like dustjacket. As new, except that the top corners are lightly bumped. Clean and tight; jacket fully intact. Inspirational fiction by the author of REDISCOVERING CATHOLICISM. As New .

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Book number: 190383

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Grace Kennedy

Father Clement; a Roman Catholic Story

Edinburgh, William Oliphant, 1831. Seventh Edition. Leather. 360p. A small hardcover book with a brown leather spine and corners and marbled boards. Very good condition. Edges and surfaces heavily rubbed. Light foxing inside. The frontis has faded onto the title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding secure. An anti-Catholic novel first published in 1823. It is the best-known work by Scottish author Grace Kennedy (1782-1825) and precipitated numerous literary responses from various pro-Catholic writers. Measures approx. 5.75" x 3.75.

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Book number: 171138

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Thomas Kernan

Now with the Morning Star

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. 234p. A grey cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Endpapers deeply tanned; otherwise clean and tight. A novel about Catholic resistance in Nazi Germany. Very Good .

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Book number: 195209

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Aline Kilmer

Candles That Burn

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 68p. A hardcover book in very good condition with the RARE dustjacket. Some light shelf wear along the edges, and occasional small brown spots on the very edges of the pages. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned and lightly soiled, and the edges have been reinforced with clear tape. Aline Kilmer was a Catholic poet and the widow of Joyce Kilmer. Good .

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Book number: 181073

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Joyce Kilmer

Main Street and Other Poems

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1917. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 78p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a FAIR dustjacket. Corners and spine ends rubbed. and small tear in the gutter of the rear endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned and chipped, and the rear flap is missing. The corners are crudely reinforced with clear tape. The dustjacket has the price of $1.00 on the spine. .

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Book number: 181075

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Ronald Knox

Barchester Pilgrimage

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce in dustjacket. Ex-library with stamps on free end papers. Former owner's signature on front pastedown. Minimal shelf wear to boards. Tear to back of dustjacket 2.5x.25"; tear at spine .25". Wear to dustjacket corners, inside corners clipped. Knox's addition to Trollope's well-known Barchester series. .

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Book number: 123810

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Ross Labrie

The Catholic Imagination: In American Literature

Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A new hardcover book in dustjacket. 306p. This book examines the contributions of great American Catholic writers, from Orestes Brownson and Caroline Gordon to Flannery O'Connor and Ralph McInerny. .

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Book number: 124237

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Barbara Lachman

The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen

New York, Bell Tower, 1993. 3rd Printing. Paperback. 187p. A softcover book in fine condition. A fictional journal based in the life of St. Hildegard. .

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Book number: 180910

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Rupert Langenstein

The Constant Cross

Milwaukee, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 109p. A brick-red cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Covers stained and spine tanned. Text is unmarked and binding is tight. A study of how the Passion of Christ has been used in modern literature. .

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Book number: 180369

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Deborah Larsen

The Tulip and the Pope

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. 265p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. As new, except for an owner's address label inside. A novel about a young woman's life in a convent. .

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Book number: 201845

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John B. Lee, ed

Under the Weight of Heaven: Writing from the Abbey of Gethsemani

Ontario, Black Moss Press, 2008. Softcover. A new softcover book. Black and orange cover. 63p. A collection of poetry. .

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Book number: 123861

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Peter Levi

The Hill of Kronos

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 222p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly tanned on the spine. .

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Book number: 176829

Catalogue: Catholic Literature

C.S. Lewis

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1964. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 232p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label residue on spine, stamp on title page, and small label inside back cover. Dime-sized stain affecting pages 216 through the rear endpapers. Otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked book in very good condition. Second printing from the same year as the first edition. C.S. Lewis was one of the Inklings, a literary group that also included J.R.R. Tolkien. Good .

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Book number: 197145

Catalogue: Catholic Literature

Henry Lexau, comp

A Treasury of Catholic Digest: Favorite Stories of Fifty Years 1936-1986

San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 598 pgs. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Some yellowing along and small tearing at the top of the dust jacket spine. A collection of the most popular stories from Catholic Digest magazine in celebration of the publication's fifty-year anniversary. .

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Book number: 178677

Catalogue: Catholic Literature