Rome, Typis Societatis, 1951. Edition unknown; text in Latin. Inscribed by Maritain to Doris Dana (in French): "To my beloved goddaughter Doris on this day of her first communion with all my tenderness (and my love of Latin) the missal of the old/ Jacques." Dana was, as is apparent here, a lifetime friend of Maritain. She was also a friend of Carson McCullers and Truman Capote, and the partner and translator of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dana introduced Mistral to McCullers and Capote. Although Maritain inscribes this volume mentioning Dana's "first communion," a landmark in life usually associated with childhood, Dana would have been 31 years old at the time this was published, in 1951. Bound in soft leather; small stain front cover; very good. [#035848] SOLD