Nuns

Austin, Texas: Von Boeckmann. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. Book is clean and tight. Ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. Dust jacket has small chips and tears plus one tear on top front and one on top of back. The Order was begun in France, the missionary Sisters were sent out to Texas in 1852. Here in Corpus Christi, we have a Convent and schools from Pre-K to High School and there is a mural at the Convent showing the history of the Order and a museum. ;... Read more about this item

Sydney: E.J. Dwyer. 1995. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Nice copy. 243 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

London: Faber & Faber. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 239 pages. A social anthropologist's study of two different congregations of Roman Catholic nuns. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: Sisters of Mercy. 1976. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Pale dustjacket is lightly marked. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 370 pages. The biography of the Mother General of the Melbourne Province of the Sisters of Mercy and the first Superior General of the Australian Union of... Read more about this item

Sydney: Sisters of the Good Samaritan. 1977. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good+ condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners, chipping to spine ends. Some minor marking to DJ. Small "split" to base of spine at hinge - still very solid. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings/maps. Signed by author on Title Page. 200 pages A history of Sisters of the Good Samaritan in South Australia.... Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1970. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 376p., a few period illustrations, hardbound in the "collected" format: 8x5 inch teal-blue openweave cloth boards gilt. Lacks the "series" dust jacket, unfortunately. Slight wear to extremities, a bright sound copy, clean and unmarked. The collected works of Aldous Huxley.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan. 2002. Near Fine condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 193 pages. Taken into care at 7, years of discipline and abuse from the orphanage nuns and foster parents, who is discovered by her family later in life. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Melbourne: David Lovell. 1995. Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Small abrasion to the upper portion of the front free endpaper. Spine ends a touch rubbed. DJ spine a little sunned. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 306 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Moscow: Novosti, 1989. 38p., staplebound booklet, very good. From a woman's viewpoint.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. American hardbound first edition in excellent shape. x, 280p., vii, first American edition red cloth boards with green and gilt spine labeling; spine panel a bit sun-faded, corner-tips minutely turned, small adhesion to back cover. A sound clean copy that lacks the jacket.

[Madrid]: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1983. 177p., illustrated with folded line-maps and tables, 11x8 inch wraps lightly shelfworn, foxing to front endpaper and textblock edges; ownership label on front endpaper blacked out, interior otherwise clean. Text in Spanish.