The Book of Mary

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960. 1st ed. Octavo with blue cloth boards in black and yellow pictorial jacket; 224 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Very good (-) copy, boards show some wear; darkening at edges of boards and toning to leaves but clean, tight and bright; Jacket is very good (-) with edgewear, now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Recorded facts about the mother of Jesus, gleaned from the Gospels and from Apocryphal writings, presented by a leading French Roman Catholic scholarContents: The quest for Our Lady, Mary: The quest; Mary in the gospels; The testimony of the texts; The most retiring of characters; A lowly Jewish maiden; Questions without answers; Strange answers from the Apocrypha; Our Lady in the Apocrypha; Truth and falsehood in the Apocrypha; Mary in the early church; The heart in the understanding of dogma; Mary and ourselves. The documents which tell of Mary: The canonical Scriptures; Supplement: Patristic texts; Apocryphal texts. The Quest for Our Lady, Mary; The Quest; Mary in the Gospels; The Testimony of the Texts; The Most Retiring of Characters; A Lowly Jewish Maiden; Questions without Answers; Strange Answers from the Apocrypha; Our Lady in the Apocrypha; Mary in the Early Church; The Heart in the Understanding of Dogma; Mary and Ourselves. The Documents Which Tell of Mary; The Canonical Scriptures; The Annunciation; The Visitation; Joseph’s Fears; The Birth of Jesus; The Shepherds; The Presentation in the Temple; The Magi; The Flight into Egypt; Nazareth; The Boyhood of Jesus: The Finding in the Temple; The Marriage at Cana; Two Allusions to the Mother of Jesus; At the Foot of the Cross; After the Death of Jesus; The Woman of the Apocalypse. Supplement: Patristic Texts; Saint Epiphanius; Saint Augustine; Apocryphal Texts; The Birth of Mary, Glorious Mother of Jesus Christ, According to the Book of James, or Protevangelium; The Book of the Birth of Blessed Mary and of the Childhood of Christ, from the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew; A Passage from The Ascension of Isaiah; Infancy Gospels; History of Joseph the Carpenter; The Book of the Passing of the Most Holy Virgin, the Mother of God; Extracts from the Arabian Book of the Passing of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. Notes: "Original French edition, 'Les Evangiles de la Vierge', copyright 1948 by Robert Laffont, Paris"--Title page verso.