Search Results: henry morse priest of the plague by caraman philip

Fontana, 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UK: Fontana, 1962. Book. Fair. Mass Market Paperback. Paper yellowed. Shelfworn covers. Paper peeling from lower 1/2" of spine. Front hinge weakening but binding secure overall. Pages unmarked..

Collins Fontana Books, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. First Issued in Fontana Books. 192 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

British: Fontana, 1962. Solid with a few creases on the front cover.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.

London.: The Catholic Book Club. ix, 201pp. DW has some edge wear.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback.

Longmans, 1957. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (top and fore-edges spotted - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 203, illus with b&w plates (prelims toned; no inscriptions).

Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. Good in Good dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.. 1957. Hardcover. Has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; Ex-Library; 201 pages; A biograpjy of the 17th-century priest who battled the Black Plague,. .

London, Longmans, 1957.. xii. 202pp. : ill. (frontis. plates) ; 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W photographic illustrations. A very good copy.. First edition.

Longmans, 1957. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (top and fore-edges spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 203, illus with b&w plates (prelims toned; no inscriptions).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 1957. (Hardcover) 201pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrations, appendices, index. There is a previous owner's stamp and some small tape stains on the front free endpapers and the dust jacket is price-clipped. "Unlike Philip Caraman's classic translations, John Gerard and William Weston (see back of this jacket), this is an original and unusual biography. About this book the author writes: 'For a long time I have wanted to study the life of what I might call an 'ordinary' priest in the seventeenth century. I took a risk and settled on a man whose name was unknown". Biography of Henry Morse. Time Period 17th Century. Identified on spine as Priest of the Plague. Locale: London--England. (Biography, Biography, Exiles, Plague, Priests).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on top text block edge. .

Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1957. First edition.. Hardback.. Black and White illustrations. VG+ in Very Good dust jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 201 pp. : illus. ; 22 cm. Contents; Early years -- First imprisonment -- Rome -- St. Anthony's -- The Sea Horse -- York gaol [i.e. jail] -- Flanders -- St. Giles-in-the-Fields -- Priest of the plague -- The dying and the dead -- Increase and decline -- At the sign of the sun -- Old Bailey -- Archbishop Laud -- Chaplain in the field -- Last arrest -- Newgate -- Tyburn. Subjects; Morse, Henry 1595-1645. Plague England London. Religious aspects.