History from Star of the Sea Books

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. , 1967. First edition. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with mild creasing to the foot of the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "MY SUBJECT IS WAR -- AND THE IMMORALITY OF WAR" First book edition of this collection of articles by Dr. Gordon Zahn, a continuation… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Thick octavo (9 5/8 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, cartographic endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Faint damp-stain to top edge, dust jacket with minor creasing to flap, slight edge-wear, small closed chip to bottom of front panel. A near-fine copy. First edition of… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth stamped in blue, photographic endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket. Small abrasion, gentle creasing and wear to corners and spine ends of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this "lively narrative history of one of the country's earliest colleges" by the distinguished Jesuit… Read more about this item

Boston: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1966. Second printing. Large octavo, original half red cloth over black cloth spine, original dust jacket. About fine. Second printing of Noonan's history of the classical and ecclesiastical views of contraception, published a year after the first printing. "The first account of the growth of the Church's doctrine from the first century to the present,… Read more about this item

South Bend and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to top of front panel. Near-fine. First edition in English of Hans Maier's study of the political upheavals of the 19th century, from the University of Notre Dame Press… Read more about this item