Westminster, Maryland: Newman, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle soiling to pale boards, minor spotting to front and spine panel of bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. 'INSTAURARE OMNIA IN CHRISTO" ("RESTORE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST") First English translation of this Italian Life of..... 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
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1949. First edition. Octavo, staple-bound in buff paper wrappers. Discrete reinforcement to lower spine and rear wrapper, minor rubbing to spine, rounded chip to rear wrapper, smaller chips to corners of bright and clean original paper wrappers. A splendid copy. "I PRAY GOD TO BLESS..... More
London: Burns Oates Washbourne, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, small bookseller's sticker 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 OF..... More
Herder and Herder, 1967, 1969. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original gray and original black cloth, original dust jackets. Volume II mildly ex-library with only blank card pocket and “Theology” written in ink on free front endpaper. A bright,clean, near-fine pair. THE "NEW" THEOLOGY First American editions of Henri de..... 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
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
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
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
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995. First edition. Oblong folio (11 1/8 by 14 1/8 inches), original illustrated folded paper wrappers. Prints and wrappers fine. "THE WORLD WILL BE SAVED BY BEAUTY" (DOSTOEVSKY) Scarce first edition of this selection of 12 wood-engraved prints by Fritz Eichenberg, an extraordinary anthology of..... 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
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 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
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First American edition. Small thin quarto (8 inches tall), sewn in original black cloth stamped in yellow, uncut. Bookseller's ticket. Minor wear to head of gently toned spine, clean, sharp-cornered boards. Very good indeed. "GRACE TO THE MOTHER / FOR THE GARDEN / WHERE..... 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
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" Second..... More
New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First American edition. Folio (14 1/2 inches tall), original purple silk-covered boards decorated in gilt, silver, pink, white, incorporating cross, crowns, fleurs-de-lys, roses, and dove descending, dark navy silk endpapers with repeating rampant lions, top edge gilt, uncut. Tiny bookseller’s blind-stamp to lower corner..... More
Detroit, Michigan: The University of Detroit Press, 1962. Early edition. Oblong quarto (8 1/2 inches tall), sewn in original black cloth, original dust jacket. Two short closed tears to upper rear panel of jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "NO MATTER HOW CROOKED I SET IT DOWN, GOD WRITES IT STRAIGHT" Third..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1955. 12mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original oatmeal cloth, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Mild tanning to endpapers, ink mark across original price on inner flap of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WEALTH IS A GIFT OF GOD, AND THEREFORE NOT TO BE CONDEMNED..... More
London: John Murray, 1957. First trade edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, price-clipped jacket with publisher's remainder sticker to flap of price-clipped jacket. A splendid, nearly-fine copy. "AN ANCIENT WISDOM EXORCISING THE MEMORY OF THE CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED OF THE INTERVENING CENTURIES" First trade edition of..... More
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London: The Westminster Press/Faber and Faber Limited, 1952. First edition. Poster: Large original broadside (30 by 20 inches; 76 by 51 cm) with central color linoleum cut, very light edge-wear with a couple of tiny nicks and tears, custom matted and framed. Book: Small quarto (9 1/2 inches tall), original..... More
Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Limited edition. Small quarto, original 3/4 red morocco with patterned paper boards, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Book near-fine with some wear to intact original slipcase. Handsome limited edition of the "Fioretti di San Francesco," decorated by Valenti Angelo with a title-page..... 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, creasing to top spine head, closed tears to top of front and back panels. A near-fine copy. "THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF ST. THOMAS HAS NOT YET..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), original cloth spine, gray paper boards, original dust wrapper. Book about-fine, very good original wrapper re-margined and made complete. A wonderful copy. "LEND ME, O LEND ME / THE TERRORS OF THAT SOUND, / THAT ITS MUSIC MAY..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Limited edition. Tall narrow octavo (9 inches tall), original gilt white cloth, uncut. Slight foxing to endpapers, mild toning and faint soiling to boards, gilt bright, corners sharp. A near-fine copy. "THE LORD'S PRAYER WE KNOW; BUT WHAT IS THE LORD'S SONG?" Limited edition..... More
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Limited edition. Quarto (10 3/8 inches tall), original gilt white cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Gilt still bright, corners still sharp, gentle toning to spine of largely clean boards. A near-fine copy. "SET ME AS A SEAL UPON THY HEART / AS A...... More