The Book Of High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography Michael Williams

Paper slip with Michael Williams' signature affixed to front free endpaper. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top corner of front board lightly bumped, else fine. ''New Edition with New Material'' stated on title page. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has short closed tear to bottom edge of front panel; lightly age toned; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 406 pages. The spiritual autobiography of C. [Charles] Michael Williams (1877-1950), founder and first editor of Commonweal, the lay Catholic weekly journal of opinion. Williams held the post of editor until 1938. ''The interesting life story of the son of a Halifax sea captain who, as a nomadic newspaper reporter and literary free lance, runs the gamut of religious experience and emerges from Bohemianism and radicalism into the light of orthodox truth.'' - New York Herald