The Enthusiast: An Enquiry into the Life, Beliefs and Character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne, Alias Fr. Ignatius, OSB, Abbot of Elm Hill,Norwich and Llanthony, Wales by Arthur Calder-Marshall - 1962

Faber & Faber, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1962. First Edition. 304 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil annotations to front pastedown. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping, but some marking.

Faber & Faber, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. FIRST FABER EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

Faber & Faber, 1962. ~TITLE CONTINUES: Abbot of Elm Hill, Norwich and Llanthony, Wales. ~2 owners' signatures. Laminated dustwrapper unfaded and unclipped. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good+. 304pp., illus. With dustwrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London: Faber and Faber, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Some moderate toning to edges; jacket slightly soiled and edge-worn (now in archival mylar sleeve). Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Llanthony Monastery history leaflet laid in. 304pp..

London: Faber & Faber. 304pp, hardback, very good in a very good wrapper, crossed out owner's signature to front end-paper . Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. 1962.

London: Faber & faber. 304pp, hardback, green cloth gilt, very good in a good wrapper with fraying over spine, wrapper with edge rubs and repair over rear board . Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. 1962.

London: Faber & Faber, 1962. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn with a small nick to the foot of the upper panel, now wrapped in a removable protective sleeve. A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); 304pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198362|| Condition:

Faber & Faber, Russell Square, London 1962 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾" (14½cms x 22½cms), with dust jacket Previous owner's label and name to endpapers. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Father Ignatius, the name by which The Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837 - 1908) was better known, was something of a stormy petrel in nineteenth century religious life. Filled with an enthusiasm which convinced him everything he did was directly inspired by God, he so infuriated his superiors with his ritualism and revival of the Monastic Order of St Benedict that he found no bishop to ordain him priest until at the age of sixty he received dubious 'orders' from Mr Timotheus. The author's account of Lyne's life and multifarious activities is deeply perceptive (and highly entertaining). LOOSLEY INSERTED: Newspaper clipping recalling an incident involving Fr. Ignatius.

Faber & Faber, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1962 first edition hardback in near fine condition. No marks, clean and bright, tight binding, near flawless green cloth boards. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with a little chipping to top page edge and slight marking to rear, generally very good. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

London: Faber & Faber. 304pp, neat gift inscription to ffep, near fine in a very good wrapper, with typed letter signed from the author to a priest discussing a Brother's ms diary from Llanthony, mentioning homosexuality, infestations of fleas, drowning cats &c . Near Fine. hardback. 1st Edition. 1962.