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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.

the bottom of the jacket has tear in it. Atherwise the book is fine.

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! Boston, MA: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1931. Limited 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. xxx+213pp. Signed by editor on limitation page. Near Good book. No slipcase. Insecting on spine. Marginalia throughout. (Catholics, Christian Poetry) Inquire if you need further information.

xxx, 213, [1] p. 21 cm. 2575 copies printed. One of 2000 numbered copies on Hamilton's mellow book.Printed by The Southworth Press. Portland. Limited ed. signed by the editor. The editor, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878 - 1962) was an African American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist, and publisher. His work as a critic and anthologist was widely praised and important in the development of East Coast poetry styles in the early 20th century.

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.

Limited to 50 copies on Kelmscott Handmade paper of which this no. 72. Octavo (22cm.); full crimson brocade-like cloth, brown gilt spine label, top edge gilt, red cloth slipcase, printed paper label to slipcase spine; [2],xxx,213pp. Just a hint of spotting and wear to slipcase, else Fine. Signed by Braithwaite, Blunt, and Cram on first colophon page. Quite an attractive production, printed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine.