Pleasantly nice personal library: after living in Rome!

At a cool Art Nouveau cafe in Rome I was chatting with another expat as he was telling me how his collection of liturgical books was the "mother of the mothers." I had to agree. After living in Rome one does have the opportunity to get the best books before anyone else, right?

Back stateside, during the 1960s purge, a lot of the Marshal Tito clerics and others threw a great many of these wicked old books of yesteryear into the dumpsters. So in America, ther's only a handful left. However, in Italy, many more existed from the start and have survived (Grazie a Dio!).

Along the Italian coastline I have gotten the coolest liturgical books, all in Latin, that one could ever imagine. The best deals were in Naples, but I got some niiiice books in Genoa, Turin and of course, Rome, too! Under the Italian sun there are many used book sellers and they often have at least one or two liturgical books in stock, albeit expensive!