Faithful Servant: Spiritual Retreats and Letters of Blessed Claude la Colombière. by Blessed Claude la Colombiere. (translated by William J. Young SJ) - 1960

St. Louis, Missouri.: B. Herder Book Company.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. 8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; viii - 450 pp. Yellow cloth over boards with blue lettering on the spine. Translated from the original French by William J. Young SJ from the text as found in Volume VI of the Grenoble edition of the "Oeuvres Complètes" (1900-1901). Divided into two sections with first being the spiritual retreats: "First Spiritual Retreat", "Second Spiritual Retreat" and "Offering to the Sacred Heart". The second part is the letters, 148 in all, categorized by correspondent. Occasional explanatory footnotes are present in the first part and small explanatory introductions to each of the letters in the second part. Previous owner's stamp on the front free end paper, otherwise the interior is clean and the binding is sound. Minor wear to the fore corners of the boards and the spine tips with some light soiling of the spine and the head edges of the boards. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate wear to the fore corners and the spine tips along with some general though light scuffing and the spine is a tad sunned or darkened. .