New York: Basic Books, 1962. First edition thus. Three volumes. Octavo, original gray cloth, original orange cardboard slipcase with mounted label. Spines uniformly toned, scratches to label of volume III, joints of slipcase professionally restored. A near-fine set. "A GREAT CHRISTIAN ALLEGORY, DERIVING ITS POWER FROM THE TERROR AND SPLENDOUR... More about The Divine Comedy; Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers; Illustrated with a Selection of William...

London: Burns Oates Washbourne, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature and small bookseller's label to front flyleaf, blue cloth and top stain still bright, gentle creasing to spine ends of slightly toned dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "REGARDED BY MANY... More about Catholicism; A Study of Dogma in relation to the Corporate Destiny of Mankind

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 about Ave Maria; An Interpretation from Walt Disney's "Fantasia"

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 about The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

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 about Notes towards the Definition of Culture

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 about A Time to Keep Silence

New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Quarto (14.75 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Corners bumped, slight wear to spine and edges of original boards. Very good indeed. First American edition of Funck-Brentano's pictorial biography of Joan of Arc, gloriously illustrated with 40 color-printed plates by O. D. V.... More about Joan of Arc

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 about The Engraved Work of Eric Gill

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 about Painting and Reality; The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

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 about The Golden String; The Autobiography of Bede Griffiths

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 about Sevilla y la Semana Santa; Ano 1931

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First edition. Original stiff card sheet (11 1/2 by 8 inches) folded into three panels. A nearly-fine copy with some gentle spotting and finger-soiling to blank rear panel. "WHY SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? / THE LORD IS RISEN, AS HE SAID" First edition of... More about The Story of Adam and Christ; The verses written by Dorothy L. Sayers - The window painted by...

London: Burns & Oates, 1963. 16mo. (6 3/4 inches tall), rounded black leatherette boards, all edges red, original gold foil dust jacket. Bright boards fine, shallow crease and gentlest edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "A COMPENDIUM OF SPIRITUALITY WHICH IS UNIQUE IN THE ANNALS OF CHRISTIAN ASCETIC... More about The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius