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213 pp. Blue cloth with gilt decoration. Foreword by The Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt and an Introduction by Ralph Adams Cram. Library stamps and stickers, pocket on back endpaper; cover worn and faded with Library call No. on spine. Text clean, no tears.

First edition. Edited by William Stanley Braithwaite. Japanese vellum and papercovered boards. Long gift inscription on two preliminary leaves, spine a trifle soiled else fine in original good cardboard slipcase whch has been covered with contact paper. One 575 copies Signed by Braithewaite. An attractive edition printed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine. A collection of poetry by Catholic nuns; biographies of the nuns who contributed are not provided. A very uncommon item edited by Braithwaite, the accomplished African-American poet.

SIGNED by editor. 120/500 on Worthy Hand and Arrows paper (total issue on var. papers: 575 signed, 2000 regular.) Pale mauve papers, vellum spine lightly soiled. Mauve box much soiled, some breaks. Ink non-editorial gift inscription from poet, playwright and critic Samuel Loveman.

Extremely ornate and detailed gilt tooled full black leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite compartmental tooling. Stiff silk endpapers. xxx, 230 pp., no illustrations. Custom bound by the Harcourt Bindery in Boston, this is one of 50 copies printed on Kelmscott paper and signed by the editor, the author of the Foreword (Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt) and the Introduction (Ralph Adams Cram). Printed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine.This copy un-numbered on the limitation page. In a custom cloth slipcase, and with a folded prospectur laid-in, as well as an article from the newspaper on this book and it's various editions. The prospectus brings out sevral issues which compete with the information in the newspaper article, and with the book in my hands. The prospectus makes no mention of this version of this book (numbers 26-75) as being bound in gilt tooled leather, but the more expensive edition (numbers 1-25) were bound in elaborated tooled leather. Also, the prospectus states that this verision has one hand-written poem by "the Sister" inserted into it, but the newspaper makes no mention of this feature for this version. Regardless, a very scarce book made even more desireable by the leather binding and slipcase. VG- with only the slightest hints of wear beginning

Octavo. xxx, 214pp. One of fifty copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Signed by Braithwaite, Hugh Francis Blunt, who wrote the Foreword, and Ralph Adams Cram, who wrote the Introduction. A broad collection of poems, largely on religious subjects, some of which reimagine often-male realms of theology through the female gaze. Braithwaite was himself an acclaimed poet, writer, and anthologist of African descent, who developed a love of writing at a young age while working at a publishing company to support his family. Bound in red silk brocade with matching slipcase. Slipcase stained and rubbed, but volume itself is fine. Together with a copy of the standard edition of 2000 copies printed on Hamilton's Mellow Book paper. This edition bound in blue cloth with cream paper over boards and gilt stamping, with original dust wrapper. Some toning to wrapper and few chips, else very good.

xxx. 213pp. Bright gilt top edges. Vellum spine with bright gilt title on spine and lilac paper over boards with gilt decoration. Rare original glassine dust jacket with open tear in spine panel. Some pages uncut. Lilac slip case with printed label, Fine. Number 542 of 500 numbered copies, numbered 76 to 575, printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press, Portland, ME, in the month of December 1931. Printed on Worthy Hand and Arrows paper. Signed by William Stanely Braitwaite. An extraordinary fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall