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SOULCATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book) set in a California convent perched high above the Pacific Ocean, with "six nuns and one prurient priest, falling away day by day - a book as recessive as the life there which is in turn a reduction of the world outside to pain, loneliness and violence." The author herself spent 5 years in a convent before leaving the religious life. 190 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-030075661.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (remainder dot, chip to front cover of dj).
Book ID: 87339More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TWO NUNS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Sheed and Ward, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about two lives dedicated to the service and God, and two minds at war on how to do this; The author had herself entered a convent. Originally published in French as Deux Mondiales in 1962, and a finalist for the Prix Goncourt; translated into English by Emma Crawford. 221pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (a tight copy, but with some light edgewear to the dj, orig price of 4.00 still present)
Book ID: 66850More details Price: $15.00 -
STRANGE LOOP.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Ludwig, a confirmed rationalist and distinguished professor of philosophy, returns as a guest to the convent where, as a young man after the war, he had become attracted to a mysterious figure in a convent turret" - a young woman, a refugee from the war, who believed she was (or who was) a werewolf. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-525243054.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 75691More details Price: $16.50 -
STRANGE LOOP.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Ludwig, a confirmed rationalist and distinguished professor of philosophy, returns as a guest to the convent where, as a young man after the war, he had become attracted to a mysterious figure in a convent turret" - a young woman, a refugee from the war, who believed she was (or who was) a werewolf. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-525243054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83901More details Price: $18.50 -
LYING AWAKE.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in a Carmelite convent just outside modern Los Angeles. 8 illustrations by Stephanie Shieldhouse. SIGNED on the title page. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-3754052328.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new)
Book ID: 59979More details Price: $18.50