London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955]. Original pale blue cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), front board stamped with Chesterton's facsimile signature, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, tanning to endpapers, mild toning to boards, gentle creasing to price-clipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I SAY, AS DO ALL CHRISTIAN MEN..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. Early printing. Large octavo (9 inches tall), original dark red cloth, original dust wrapper. Small Christmas inscription (dated "Xmas 1925") to upper blank flyleaf, spotting to edges and preliminary leaves, mild spine toning, short tears and creasing along top margins of rare original wrapper. Very..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1960. Later edition. Twelvemo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original green cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to edges and spine of the dust jacket. A crisp and clean copy. Bodley Head edition of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's early classic, part of the publisher's smart series of..... More
New York: The John Lane Company, 1905. First American edition. Original red cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), gilt titles to spine and front board. Bookplate. Front upper corner bumped, very slight wear to corners and spine ends. A near fine copy. "THE SERIOUS OPPONENT OF THE LATIN CHURCH IN HISTORY..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943. Early printing. Original green paper wrappers (6 3/4 inches tall) lettered in black. Slight browning to interiors, gentle wear to toned spine ends, mild creasing and soiling to wrappers but still quite sound. A near-fine copy. "TRADITION MEANS GIVING VOTES TO THE MOST..... More
New York: 1943. Mass market paperback. Original paperback (6 3/8 inches tall), perfect-bound in original illustrated wrapper, pink endpapers, all edges red. Text tanned but clean, minor edge-wear. Very good indeed. CHESTERTON'S "FAMOUS PRIEST-DETECTIVE" Second World War printing of Chesterton's Father Brown stories—an excellent copy of the Pocket Book..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1954. Early edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, several tiny closed tears along edges of bright, clean dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "YOU CALL HIM A DUMB OX; I TELL YOU THAT THE DUMB OX WILL BELLOW SO LOUD THAT HIS..... More
London: Faber & Gwyn Limited, 1927. First trade edition. Original yellow paper wrappers (7 1/4 inches tall) with inner flaps, original paper mailing envelope. Fine. "GLORY TO GOD IN THE LOWEST / THE SPOUT OF THE STARS IN SPATE— / WHERE THE THUNDERBOLT THINKS TO BE SLOWEST / AND THE..... More