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Westport, Connecticut and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxii, 218pp., (i). Mildly ex-library, with no exterior library markings. A couple of tiny spots to front cover. Text clean. Binding sound. A good, clean, sound, and attractive copy

Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1961. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. v, 113pp. Mildly ex-library with only light wear to cloth. Text clean and binding sound

Strangnas: Societas Sanctae Birgittae, 1973. Soft cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 16pp. Short pamphlet. Volume is quite worn, including bumps and short tears, some wear, and creases to extremities, soiling and some staining to covers and here and there to interior. Ink and pencil notes throughout. An acceptable working copy. SCARCE

New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Second Printing . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 534pp. Felix Reichmann's bookplate to front paste-down. Tiny bumps to upper corners of boards. General light wear and just a touch of soiling to exterior. A hint of foxing to pages. Text clean and binding sound

Roma: Laurentianum, 1965. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 31pp. Off-print. Extractum ex Periodico Laurentianum An. VI - Fasc. 4 - 1965. From the library of Allan B. Wolter, with his signature in pencil to front cover. Bound in original wrappers. Exterior quite worn, though volume remains intact. Wear includes several small bumps to extremities, with several short tears and light soiling to wrappers. Text clean and binding sound

London: Blackfriars Publications, 1955. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (14pp.). Small pamphlet. Several minor dings to extremities of pamphlet, with light soiling and several stains to wrappers and a few pages. Numerous, discreet check marks in ink to margins. Binding sound.

New York: Park Lane, 1982. Reprint . Cloth. Good+/Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 192pp. Ex-library. This 1982 printing is a reprint of the 1977 printing by Thames and Hudson Ltd. Minor wear to extremities of boards. Price-clipped dust-jacket admits to minor wear and is attached in several areas by clear plastic tape. This is a clean and sound copy

New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1961. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. x, 212pp. Light wear and mild soiling to exterior. Previous owner's information largely crossed out with black marker on front free endpaper; else, no markings to volume. Overall, a clean, sound, user friendly copy

Rome: Collegio S. Bonaventura, 1933. Soft cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 43pp. Archivum Franciscanum. Historicum. Bibliographical information (Publisher, Year printed, and Publisher Place) derived from other sources. Paper somewhat brittle. Pages uncut, and, volume therefore unread. Back cover almost completely detached and binding may break when volume opened. A clean reading copy

London: Mansell, 1976. Cloth. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. viii + 79pp. Light rubbing and mild soiling to cloth, else, a very good, clean copy

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1937. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x, 212pp. Bound in original blue cloth. A little fading to lettering on spine. Several minor dings and worn through areas to extremities of lightly soiled covers. Some tanning to paper, with foxing and light soiling to endpapers. Text clean. Binding sound. Dust-jacket is very worn is covered with an archival quality protective cover. Overall, a good, clean, sound, and still largely attractive copy. SCARCE with dust-jacket

Firenze: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum / Quaracchi, 1907. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 9pp. Extractum ex periodico "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum". Several small tears and bumps to extremities. Some minor wrinkling and soiling to covers and interior. No writing to text and binding sound. A good reading copy

Place of publication not identified: Sonderdruck aus Archiv fur Liturgiewissenschaft, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pp. 7-77. Several small bumps to extremities of volume, with just a touch of soiling to exterior. A fairly discreet, approximately 1" tear to covers at lower spine. Some tanning to paper. Text clean. Binding sound. A nice copy

New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. Third Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 487pp., (iv). Several minor dings to extremities, with light soiling to covers and faint spotting over edges of pages. Text clean. Binding sound. A good, sound working copy 0

New York, N.Y.: The Human Life Foundation, Inc, 1978. Soft cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 14pp. Several short tears and minor bumps to extremities, with mild, faint staining and a little yellowing to covers. Text clean. Binding sound

Roma (Italy): Pontificio Ateneo Antonianum, 1995. Soft cover. Good. 33pp., (i). Text in Italian and English. Ex-library, bound in original wrappers. Only light wear and a touch of soiling to exterior. Text clean and binding sound

Roma: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1923. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 77pp., (ii). Two fold-outs. Ex-library, though exterior has cleaned up nicely. Rebound in burgundy library cloth. Lacks original front free endpaper. Neat clear tape repairs to many pages at extremities, with several pages admitting to additional small chips and tears. The reading of the text is not effected by this wear. No writing to text. Binding starting at lower hinge with title-page being completely detached, but laid in. Still a good, solid copy. SCARCE

New York: Privately Printed, 1910. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 113pp., (ii). Limited edition 0f 985 copies. Signed by Peter Fenelon Collier's son, Robert J. Collier. All 31 called for mounted illustrations and portraits are present and in place. Exterior is bound in dark green, with a gilt decoration to spine and gilt lettering to front cover, along with gilt rule border on front and back boards. Several small bumps to extremities. Paper over boards admits to a number of chips and tears, as well as some general light to medium soiling. Some browning to interior. Minor, short tears to margins of just a few pages. No writing to text. Reprinted in the book are memorials for Collier, including "letters from friends," which includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain, as well as tributes from the press. Additionally, the illustrations portray Collier in some of his past times, including playing Polo and steeple chase. Overall, a well… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (iv), 84pp. Introduction by Andrew H. Horn. With clear plastic cover. Small bump to upper corner of front cover and text, minor crease to width of front cover, near top of book, a tiny bump to lower corner of volume near edges of pages, and with minor wear to extremities of wrappers. Text clean and binding sound. Overall, definitely remains an attractive, albeit "good" copy. This volume was once owned by Mr. Emerson G. Wulling, of La Crosse, WI. The original mailing label used to mail this volume to him in La Crosse is laid in. The label is from Mr. Ward Ritchie; Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, in Los Angeles. Wulling was a great advocate of books and printing, and the first press he founded evolved into the Sumac Press. Additionally, he was active in the Ampersand Club in Minneapolis

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 327pp., (vii). Binding slightly cocked, with several small bumps to extremities of covers and light wear and several very faint stains to cloth. Minor dings to extremities of a small number of pages. Text clean. Binding firm. Minor wear to dust-jacket which is covered in a mylar protective cover. Overall, remains a largely attractive, clean, user friendly copy