Original maroon plasticized cloth with blue spine decoration lettered in gilt. Eureka ! This is probably the most sought-after volume of the Fathers of the Church series, of which this is Volume 5. Except for a light waterstain on top edge only, this volume is as new. Two other Augustine volumes are listed separately (as new). Volume 1 contains: The Happy Life; Answer to Skeptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil; and Soliloquies. Believed first edition of this translation, since there are no other dates of publication. Although published by CIMA in New York while the other 15 in the lot came from Catholic University in America Press, Washington, D.C., the bindings are substantially the same. I found no other bound copies of Volume 1 for sale, although print-on-demand copies are advertised for $175. 450 pp. wth index. (No series list in this early edition).