[Caldey Island, Wales]: Printed by the Community, [1931]. Octavo (8 1/8 inches tall), staple-bound in original decorated paper boards. Faint foxing to preliminary leaves, gentle toning to spine, slight bumping to upper corners, gutter cracked at half title. A near-fine copy. "THE 'ISLE OF SAINTS' AS IT HAS BEEN CALLED..... More
Westminster: Dacre Press, 1958. Clare Dawson. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original decorated blue and white cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, original dust jacket with mild toning, small chip to bottom front panel, short closed tear and sticker abrasion to rear panel. A near-fine copy. "IN HIS OWN..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PREDICAMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAN" First edition of this study of the most prominent Existential thinkers with a special focus on Jean-Paul Satre, Karl Jaspers..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner gently bumped, mild edge-wear, small closed tear to front to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST AND THE WEST HAVE AN AFFINITY BETWEEN THEM THAT GOES MUCH..... More
New York: Random House, 1937. Thick folio (12 3/8 inches tall), original black textured cloth, gilt spine, top edge gilt, original dust jacket wrapper with mounted color illustrations, original cardboard slipcase with printed spine label. About Fine. "I WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR MY WINDOWS SINGING" Limited edition of Charles Jay..... More
London: Burns and Oates Limited, 1961-1966. Eight volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt and blind-stamped, original uniform dust jackets. A nearly-fine set. "NEO-PLATONISM WAS THE LAST BREATH, THE LAST FLOWER, OF ANCIENT PAGAN PHILOSOPHY; BUT IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. AUGUSTINE IT BECAME THE FIRST STAGE OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY"... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1932. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original brown and black cloth lettered in silver. Very gentle scuffing to front board but about-Fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS, AND THESE TOO MANY OF..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1904. Original red cloth (7 7/8 inches tall), gilt spine, original printed dust wrapper. Faint scattered foxing, gentle toning and neat tape repair to verso of wrapper. A near-fine copy. "TRUE HOPE'S A GLORIOUS HUNTER & HER CHASE / THE GOD OF NATURE IN THE..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First edition. Octavo, original blue pebbled blue cloth, gilt front board, original pictorial dust jacket. Book fine, original dust jacket with faint red stains (the ink used in printing frequently ran or offset, this copy is no exception), several short tears..... More
Boston: Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1948. Octavo (9 inches tall), stapled in original illustrated wrapper. Staples rusted, modest damp-staining to lower margins, illustrations almost entirely clean. Very good indeed. "CHRIST OFFERS THE BLESSED SACRAMENT OF HIS BODY AND BLOOD TO A HEEDLESS WORLD"" First edition of Allan Crite's modern day..... More
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Thus. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Quarto (11 5/8 inches tall), original gilt navy cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to original boards, bumped lower corners, complete dust jacket chipped and torn along the spine folds but intact and sheathed in plastic. Very good indeed. "WHEN WE SPEAK OF..... More
London: Burns Oates Washbourne, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, neat underlining and marginal notes to early chapters, gentle toning, slight creasing and chipping to original jacket. Very good indeed. "REGARDED BY MANY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES'..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. A fine copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. "THE CHURCH, THIS PERFECT SOCIETY, IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST" First edition of this collection of essays..... More
London: C and J Rivington, 1823. Second edition. 12 mo. (7 3/4 inches tall), early pebbled brown morocco, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Binding sound, mild sporadic foxing, faint offsetting from illustrations, slight puckering to title page under pasted illustration. A nearly-fine copy. "YOU ARE BORN A...... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), sewn in original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Ex-Franciscan library, partial bookplate on endpaper, very minor wear to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. "MARY'S SOUL IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN GOD'S CREATION" First edition of..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Folio (13 inches tall), original blind-stamped cream boards, uncut, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Small spot to top edge, trace of soiling and toning, very shallow vertical crease, tiny nicks top edge of back panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, with only minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. “MOTHER TERESA’S VISION OF THE STREET, WHICH DROVE HER OUT AMONG THOSE ROTTING WITH DISEASE AND WRACKED..... More
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995. First edition. Oblong folio (11 1/8 by 14 1/8 inches), 12 loose prints, original folded paper wrappers with illustrations on both panels. Prints and wrappers Fine. POWERFUL WITNESS TO THE EVILS OF VIOLENCE, POVERTY AND RACISM Scarce first edition of this selection of 12..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1894. Second edition. Contemporary crushed red morocco (6 1/2 inches tall), gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Early owner inscription (August 1894) to blank flyleaf, very light wear to binding, else Fine. "DEATH IS THE CROWN OF LIFE" Second edition of this popular literary anthology of..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Original blue cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), printed paper spine label, uncut, original dust jacket. Final leaf unopened, mild offsetting to two blank flyleaves, short closed tear to front panel of price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "CLASSICIST IN LITERATURE, ROYALIST IN POLITICS..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original turquoise cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, only very gentle spine toning to bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nearly-Fine. "AN OVERRIDING AND INESCAPABLE CHOICE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY OR PAGANISM" First book edition collecting three lectures by T.S. Eliot on the relationship..... 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..... More
Westminster: The Council for Defense of Church Principles, [1943]. First edition. Staple-bound (7 1/4 inches tall) in original printed brown wrappers. Fine. "I AM WRITING AS AN ANGLICAN LAYMAN TO THE LAITY" First edition of T.S. Eliot's argument against a proposed plan to unite the Anglican dioceses in South..... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. Octavo, black cloth, gray boards, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, closed tear to back panel, gentle crease to rear flap of clean, unclipped dust jacket. "NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PERFORM THE MOST PAINFUL ACT OF LOVE THAT HAS EVER BEEN PERFORMED"... More