Herder and Herder, 1967, 1969. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original gray and original black cloth, original dust jackets. Volume II Augustinianism) is mildly ex-library with only blank card pocket, and “Theology” written in ink, on the free front endpaper. A near-fine pair. Pair of first American editions of Henri... More
New York: Random House, [1940]. First edition. Small folio (10 1/4 inches tall), original blind and gilt stamped blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Book fine, bright dust jacket with tape repairs to folds of the verso, gentle edge-wear, minor soiling and creasing to upper margins of both panels... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with paper spine label, original dust jacket. Bookseller's label, book about fine, in a good price-clipped dust jacket with toning and small stains. First edition of the early medieval historian's biography of Alcuin's life and work in Anglo-Saxon England and... More
New York: Meridian Books, 1961. Second printing. 12mo., original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, gentle scuffing to the bright dust jacket, else fine. "ANDREWES IS THE FIRST GREAT PREACHER OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLIC CHURCH" (T.S. ELIOT) Second printing—published a month after the first printing—of Lancelot Andrewes's devotional manual..... More
London: The Westminster Press, 1952. Large folio (30 x 20 inches; 76 x 51 cm). Original color linoleum cut, with text. Slightly curled from having been rolled (but never folded), very light wear at edges, with a couple of tiny nicks and minor edge tears, otherwise. About-fine. THE MARTYRDOM OF... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "CULTURE CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY CONSCIOUS--THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO IT THAN WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF; AND IT CANNOT BE PLANNED BECAUSE IT IS ALSO THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND OF ALL OUR PLANNING" First American edition, published... More
New York: The Barry Vail Corporation, 1931. Limited edition. Quarto (12 1/2 inches tall), original three-quarter red crushed morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Partially unopened, very minor edge-wear and faint toning to top of front board. A wonderful copy. "HOW GREAT IS THE DIGNITY OF CHASTE WEDLOCK, VENERABLE... More
London: John Murray, 1957. First trade edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, price-clipped jacket with John Murray remainder sticker. A splendid, nearly-fine copy. "AN ANCIENT WISDOM EXORCISING THE MEMORY OF THE CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED OF THE INTERVENING CENTURIES, THAT BRINGS ITS MESSAGE OF TRANQUILITY TO QUIETEN... More
New York: The Press of Valenti Angelo, 1951. Limited edition. Large slim octavo (10 1/4 inches tall), original stiff illustrated wrappers, original cream printed dust wrapper, original glassine dust jacket. Chipping to fragile original glassine. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. A nearly-fine copy. "HERE BEGIN THE PRAISES OF... More
New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Folio (14 3/4 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards over quarter beige cloth spine, navy top edge, patterned endpapers. Spine tender but holding, corners bumped, slight wear to spine and edges of original boards. Very good indeed. First American edition of Funck-Brentano's pictorial... More
St. Louis: B Herder Book Company, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only minor rubbing to front panel, creasing and closed tear to back panel. A near-fine copy. First edition of Garrigou-Lagrange's work on Aquinas, a commentary on the first section... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/2 inches tall), contemporary three-quarter brick red morocco, patterned boards, black satin ribbon marker, original stiff pictorial wrappers. About fine. "THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM POSSESSES WHAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF ERIC GILL'S WORK IN EXISTENCE"... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1948. First American edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Spine leaning, early gift inscription (dated April 1949) to free front endpaper, toning to spine and faint soiling to fore-edge of dust jacket. An excellent, near-fine copy. "TO READ DANTE IS A JOY. TO... More
New York: Pantheon, 1957. First edition. Quarto, original navy cloth spine over light blue cloth boards, original dust jacket. Gentle bump to top corner of front board, slightest of shelf wear to bottom of the boards, small chip to bottom of front panel and closed tear to back panel of... More
New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to free front endpaper, modest edge-wear to dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH WAS PRESENTED TO MY MIND"... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth, original dust jacket. Light toning to spine and edges of book, staining to gutters of pastedowns, spine of bright dust jacket toned, spine ends and corners chipped and creased. Very good indeed. "CAMPION IS SUNG BY ONE WHO... More
New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1936. First edition. Quarto (7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches), original beige cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Cloth boards with modest soiling and foxing to joints and edges, two short closed tears to front panel of price-clipped dust jacket. Interiors and plates... More
Sevilla: Litografia-Imprenta Gomez Hnos, 1931. First edition. Octavo, original decorated paper wrappers. Spine toned, soiling to edges of paper wrapper, corners creased, interiors clean, plates bright. Very good indeed. First edition of this heavily illustrated 1931 guide to Holy Week in Sevilla, Spain. With preliminary essays by Jose Diaz Hernandez... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original decorated navy cloth, yellow top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Owner signature. Mild toning to spine, open tear at the head of the spine, short closed edge tears, not affecting lettering. A near-fine copy. "ANTI-CATHOLICISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PORNOGRAPHY... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First American edition. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt. Owner signature, dated in year of publication, very mild edge-wear. A near-fine copy. "THE GREAT PROPHETIC EXPONENT OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE AGES" First American edition of this compendium of Ruskin's remarks on... More
London: Argo, 1967. Quarto, original 12-inch vinyl recording, original printed insert, original inner sleeve, original cardboard outer sleeve. Very minor wear to cardboard sleeve, small hole punch clean-through sleeve in upper left corner. "THE POET SPEAKS" Original phonograph record of David Jones reading selections from his two most important works... More
Ditchling: Pepler & Sewell, St. Dominic's Press, 1935. Limited first edition. Octavo, linen over tan paper boards, buff printed wrapper. Scattered marginal notes in light pencil. Slight creasing and chipping to original dust jacket. A lovely about-fine copy. Limited first edition, number 180 of only 300 copies, of this early... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Second edition, third printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine of near-fine book. dust jacket with only a faint smudge to front panel. Nearly-fine. Early printing of the first translation in English of Kierkegaard's "psychological deliberation" on original sin... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine. First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and local architecture of the religious houses in England, Scotland, and Wales, providing modern witness to the destruction wrought by the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-1541)... More