Cardinal Bourne Preface (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xiv 138pp hardback, red cloth black-lettered gift inscription to ffep, lettering to spine faded.

softcover. Condition: Good +. Softcover (approx. 4 3/4" wide by 7 1/8" tall / 18 cm). ix [1] 330 pages. Translated into English. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Cardinal Mercier. Addresses begin with Christmas 1914. Last entry Lenten Indult 1917. Wrinkled spine, light wear. Mercier was Cardinal Archbishop of Malines. World War I, The Great War. 092508A.

Hardcover. 644p. A green cloth hardcover book in acceptable condition. Streaky stains on back cover. The cloth is splitting and worn along the edges and corners. Previous owners' signature and private library stamps on endpapers and title page. The front hinge has been reinforced with tape, and the rear hinge, once cracked, has been repaired. Small closed tear in page 351. All pages tanned, but text unmarked and all pages fully attached. A worn but usable copy. A Catholic hymnal with most selections in English, and others in Latin. Blind-stamped on the front cover is "The Summit Country Day School" (a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio).

3. London, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1925, in-8°, XVI+456 pp, tinted plates h.t., bibliography in the notes, index, ed.gilt cloth, edges of cover slightly bumpred but a very fine copy. From the library of Cardinal Mercier , with his facsimile autograph stamp on the flyleaf.