Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1985. Limited edition. Folio (11 inches tall), original illustrated gray paper boards, burgundy endpapers. Fine. "ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU STAND, O PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND?" Fine Press limited edition of John Henry Newman's Tract One—one of only 525 copies printed by The..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1946. First edition thus. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine book with owner signature on free front endpaper, dust jacket with chipping to toned spine ends and corners. Very good indeed. "I SOUGHT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD AND CLIMBED THE TOPMOST..... More
London: James Burns, 1848. First edition. Contemporary green cloth (7 inches tall), blind-stamped boards with gilt spine, yellow coated endpapers, uncut. Sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid-down, small Brighton bookseller's ticket, ex-Convent library with two early ink inscriptions to blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "HE SEEMED TO FEEL A...... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Albert Bender, 1939. Limited edition. Folio sheet (15 by 10 1/2 inches), printed on watermarked paper, folded once to make four pages. Title in black with printer's device on the front page, fore-and-bottom edges uncut, text in gilt and black with..... More
London: Illustrated News of the World, 1890. Original broadside print (measuring 23 by 16 inches), custom mounted on tabs in a black window mat. Folding crease across center sheet, else Fine. "THEN LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT US A SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST, AND PEACE AT THE LAST"... More