The Little Flowers of St. Francis. This item is unavailable.The Little Flowers of St. Francis

8vo, green buckram cloth, black titles, 357pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) faintly worn at edges, toned to panels. Ownership stamp to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding crisp and firm. Apocryphal stories of St. Francis and his brethren, in an enlarged edition translated from the Latin and Italian by Raphael Brown. These often humorous vignettes of the spiritual life of the original Franciscan friars became the basis for Roberto Rossellini's film The Flowers of Francesco. A nearly fine copy.