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Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China

Claudia Devaux and George Bernard Wong · 2000 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Chicago, Loyola Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 206p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Wong, a Chinese Jesuit, was put in prison for 25 years by the Communist Chinese because of his religious faith. Contains black and white photographs. .

Pugin: A Mediaeval Victorian

Michael Trasppes-Lomax · 1932 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 357p. Red cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Some light cover wear, previous owner's name, otherwise pages clean and tight. A biography of Augustus Pugin, English architect and designer, who brought about a reviv...

Reluctant Dissenter

James Patrick Shannon · 1998 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 228p. A new hardcover book with a likewise dustjacket. From the back cover, "the moving, first-person account of the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to resign from his office over a mat...

The Diaries of Beatrice Webb.

WEBB, BEATRICE / MACKENZIE, NORMAN AND JEANNE.(EDITORS). · 2001 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. 155553483X. Abridged by Lynn Knight. "Fabian socialist, social researcher and reformer, and cofounder of the London School of Economics, Beatrice Webb was at the center of British intellectual and political life for nearly seventy y...

Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms.

FESTING, SALLY. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Viking, 1995. 0670843032. 1st edition. Biography of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. "The development of her sculpture is interwoven with its chief influences, people and places, setting her life against the great creative forces of her surroundings, first in Yorkshire a...

James Gillis, Paulist

James F. Finley · 1958 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Garden City, Hanover House, 1958. Hardcover. Tan cloth, without the dustjacket. 270p. A hardcover book in very good condition. A couple name stamps from a convent library on half-title and title pages else complete, unmarked, clean and tight. Biography of the popular Catholic ...

The Fruit in the Seed: Chapters of Autobiography

Margaret Leigh · 1952 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

New York, Sheed & Ward, Inc, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 128p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Stamp inside front cover and paste residue inside back cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly chipped, most visib...

The Life of Christina of Marykate

Monica Furlong, trans · 1997 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Berkhamsted, Arthur James, 1997. Paperback. 123p. A new blue softcover book. Appears unread. From the VISIONARY WOMEN series. Christina of Marykate (ca. 1097-1155) was an English hermit devoted to celibacy. This 14th-century biography is translated by Monica Furlong. .

Thomas Cranmer Theologian

G. W. Bromiley · 1956 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 108p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition with dustjacket in good condition. Corners and spine lightly bumped and rubbed. Very light discoloring on cover. Former owner's signature and address on fro...

Life of the Venerable Louis Marie Baudouin

Pierre Michaud · 1914 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York, Benziger Brothers, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 502p. Red cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: number painted on spine, previous owner's name, binding slightly shaken, edges of cover worn, otherwise pages unmarked. Written by The Abbe Pierre Michau...

Great Catholics

Claude Williamson, O.S.C., ed · 1939 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Macmillan, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 1st prtg. 456p. Hardcover, original cloth. Ex-seminary library copy. Old label on spine, stamps on endpapers. Pages slightly yellowed from age. A book in good condition. Biographies of famous Catholics from history. .

LAURA KEENE; A British Actress on the American Stage, 1826-1873

Bryan, Vernanne · 1997 · Books On The Boulevard

$33.25 (€30.17 | £25.17 | ¥5,308)

Near Fine McFarland Publishing First 6.5 X 1 X 9.5 inches; 222 pages 0786400757

The Path I Trod

Terence V. Powderly · 1940 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 460p. Ex-library. A green cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Call number on spine; library bookplate and card pocket inside. Stamp and call number on title page, but otherwise, te...

The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatness, or the Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight

ROPER, WILLIAM; ISRAEL GOLLANCZ (ED) · 1903 · Round Table Books, LLC

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

London: Alexander Moring (The De La More Press), 1903. First Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with tissue-protected engraved portrait frontispiece. Includes Dedicatory Letter, Introduction to the Original ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson. A Biography.

ASSOULINE, PIERRE. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. 9780500290521. "An intensely private individual, Cartier-Bresson nonetheless took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years,discussing such subjects as his youthful devotion to surrealism, his lifelong passion for drawing, his e...

Salvatore Ferragamo: The Art of the Shoe 1898-1960

RICCI, STEFANIA; EDWARD MAEDER · 1992 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Boston: Rizzoli, 1992. 0847814963. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0847814963. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped lettering on cover, photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated with full-page, full-color photographs of Ferrag...

John Charles Mcquaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland

John Cooney · 1999 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Dublin, The O'Brien Press, 1999. Paperback. 526p plus index. A paperback book in very good condition. Spine and covers creased; many pages near the beginning are slightly bent. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs. Very Good .

Distances a Personal Evocation of People and Places

CONN, STEWART · 2001 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Scotland: Scottish Cultural Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1840170433. Near Fine 1st Edition paperback with uncreased spine. corners very lightly bumped. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Publisher's slip laid in. Carefully packaged and despa...

His Doubtful Excellency

Jan Drabek · 2006 · Rainy Day Books

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Book Very Good. Ekstasis Editions Canada Very slight wear.

Memories of Grandmother Manda

Kovac, Elsie Herranen · 1990 · Rainy Day Books

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Book Good. Christian Press Canada Very light wear. Lower corners faintly finger smudged.