Jesuits: Biographical Essays

First edition. xvi, 230p. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed, bumped; torn and frayed spine head; slightly cocked. Very lightly rubbed and worn top corners. Text block edges just starting to fox and tan; water stain top corner (does not affect page margins). Signature binding. Tanned endpapers. Gutter cracked mid-way through. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean and bright. "This book is a twentieth-century tribute to a saint who died four hundred years ago on 31st July 1556. His life and the poetic mystical realism that informed it are sketched in the opening essay. The other men whose lives are here briefly told are his sons in the Lord: they are all Jesuits, members of the Society of Jesus. "