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
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
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. Very gentle toning to spine of bright, sharp-cornered boards. A nearly-fine copy. "GRACE TO THE MOTHER / FOR THE GARDEN / WHERE ALL LOVE..... 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
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
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
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First edition. Narrow and slender (7 1/8 inches tall), original blue cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Small original owner signature (dated in year of publication), mild offsetting to margins of front and rear blanks, faint stain to front panel, two short closed tears to rear..... 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 GOLDEN STRING IS CHRIST; HE IS THE CLUE TO THE CENTRE" First American edition of Bede Griffiths'..... 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
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1930. Limited second edition. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), original patterned paper boards over gilt vellum spine, patterned endpapers, uncut, original plain glassine wrapper. Lower corners bumped, modest wear to scarce original glassine wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. Deluxe second edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's collected..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First edition. Octavo, original blue pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth and plates fine, tape reinforcement on verso, gentle wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "ALL GLORY BE TO THEE, ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER" First edition of..... More
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex: F. Lewis Ltd., 1946. First edition. Original cream linen boards (10 7/8 inches tall), uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle offsetting from the plates, mild wear and faint spotting to original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. 'IF THOU WILT ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS" Limited edition of these..... More