Search Results: RELIGION - Christianity - Catechisms Books

Liturgical Pr, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ boards show moderate edge wear/ corners and spine bumped/ small stain on page edges

Chicago: Loyola Pr, 2001. 96pp A guided tour through the Bible for busy people in search of wisdom. First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. As New.

Previous owner's name & address written on title page, otherwise text is clean & tight & unmarked. Contains 213 Q&A's. Mild yellowing with age. Minimal shelf wear/mild yellowing of cover along edges.

Paulist Pr, July 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good Softcover. 1994 Paulist. Faint cover mark. Otherwise, flawless item.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1998. Hardback. Fine/Fine.

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Press, 1998. 2d . Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, sturdy book, gray cloth spine, dark purple boards, purple lettering very fine on spine, gray color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 438 pages with some illustrated portraits. DJ colorfully designed, dark blue background to spine and back, center back dark red with praise from Norman Dorson and Lawrence E. Sullivan. Two copies available in this condition: DJ and book, both As New.

St. Louis, MO, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Tall octavos, blue cloth, edgeworn Illustrated. The original diocese of St. Louis covered most of the upper Midwest.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1883. Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. engraved portrait frontisp.. 12mo, 274 pages, tawny decorated cloth Beaudry was raised Catholic. He served in the Civil War as the Chaplain to the Fifth New York. Engraved portrait frontispiece. This "is the experience of one struggling out of Romanism into Protestantism. The candour with which the author deals with Romanism will commend this volume to every truth-loving person - Rev. Martin Cady."

Archdiocese of Chicago, ( 1981 ). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Tall octavos, red cloth, in publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with photogravures.

Fair condition (lacking title page) HC, no DJ. Text in German/Deutsch; blackletter. Full vellum over boards (early 19thC?) with red leather spine panel, gilt stamped titles; marbled end papers (double-comb waved); silk ribbon marker; all edges red. Clean, slightly darkened, square covers and spine are Very Good; tightly bound; title page and one other prelim leaf lacking; clean interior with light - moderate foxing; terminal leaf is pasted to end paper so text of this Register (Table of Contents) is readable recto only. Engraving impressions are Good, relatively sharp and clear. Early edition of very popular catechism noted for its 104 full page copperplate engravings (52 New Testament; 52 Old Testament). 18 x 11 cm. Pagination: [26] [1], 2 - 408, [7]; unpaged plates are numbered 1 - 52, 1- 52. See, OCLC #51589593.

Philadelphia: [ C. Grate ], 1853. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 302pp., contemporary black cloth, leather spine label, internal stains. Three ownership marks of William P. Johnston, of Walworth County, Wisconsin. OCLC cites the e-book version of the 1863 edition of this work. "The large editions of the "Lives of the Saints," published some twent-five years ago in Philadelphia, was too expensive for the poorer classes, by reason of its bulky size; and that which was published in Baltimore ... ten years ago, too much condensed, by the small print, for old and weak eyes. ... Here the reader is presented with a beautiful book, in a convenient form, well adapted for the centre-table in the parlour -Preface. With the canonical approval of Bishop John Neumann, the American bishop, and male citizen, to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. 2011-2012 has been declared The Neumann Year, in observance of the bicentennial of his birth.