Peter Thomas Rohrbach Translator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Quarto hardcover, approx. 11 x 8.5 inches, brown cloth boards, no dust jacket. Map endpapers printed in red titled Plan of Convent and Grounds of the Carmel of Lisieux. Illustrated throughout with full page and in text black and white photographs, with captions and commentary. Good. Boards show moderate shelfwear with rubbing to corners and spine ends, small frays at tips, and a light scuff to front board. Barcode label affixed to rear board. Binding square and sound. Several lines highlighted on one page; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. ---. Authoritative photographic album of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, Doctor of the Church, prepared by the Office Central de Lisieux with commentary by the Carmelite scholar Fr. Francois de Sainte-Marie. Sections include Photography in a Carmelite Convent, A Smiling and Expressive Face, The Limitations of a Photograph, Celine's Paintings, The Retouched Photographs, Praise and Blame, Official Statements about the Photographs, and The Present Edition, followed by the portraits arranged chronologically. English text by Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, O.C.D., with ecclesiastical approvals dated 1962. This Christian Classics issue is an authorized reprint and not the 1962 first printing by P. J. Kenedy or Harvill. A substantial visual reference for devotion and scholarship on the Lisieux Carmel, with endpaper map of the convent and numerous captioned plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardcover with dustjacket, features authentic, untouched photographs of Saint Therese, book has a few areas of what appears to be white paint on the top edge of the back cover and a long but mild surface-mark on the front cover, the binding is tight, the contents are fine and there are no other remarkable flaws, the jacket has the same surface mark as the book, the front flap has a crease and moderate rubbing to the glossy surface (a common flaw) the original price is present, the jacket remains presentable, and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included; ; 225 pages.