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 about You are the Future (with) I Believe in Youth; To the Young People of the World

London: Bickers and Son, 1897. Later edition. Small quarto (8 1/8 inches tall), contemporary full tree-calf gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Bookplate. About-fine. "SUN OF MY SOUL, THOU SAVIOUR DEAR / IT IS NOT NIGHT IF THOU BE NEAR" Late Victorian edition of John Keble's poetic meditations on the... More about The Christian Year; Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year

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 about Monastic Sites from the Air

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1947. First thus. 12 mo. (6 inches tall), original black pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "THE MOTHER OF JESUS WAS THERE" First edition thus, with frontispiece illustration, and George Lee's original Foreword, at Duquesne University. First published in 1897 by John Murphy of... More about Our Lady of Guadalupe; Patroness of the Americas

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd, 1932. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original beveled gilt black cloth, red top edge. Bookplate. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Penciled initials (dated 1934), faint tanning to blank flyleaves, gilt bright, corners sharp, small puckered spot to upper front... More about The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described

Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with a trace of edge-wear and typical toning to top of front panel, spine and flap folds. An excellent copy of a scarce book. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL... More about After Virtue; A Study in Moral Theory

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. First edition. Tall octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book is nearly-fine, short open tear to back panel of near-fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. "PRINT HAD THE EFFECT OF PURIFYING LATIN OUT OF EXISTENCE" First British edition of Marshall McLuhan's kaleidoscopic commentary... More about Gutenberg Galaxy; The Making of Typographic Man

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976. First American edition. Large octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with moderate wear to corners and spine ends. "SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF GOD" AUGUSTINE, PASCAL, BLAKE, KIERKEGAARD, TOLSTOY, BONHOEFFER. First American edition of... More about A Third Testament

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Very gentle lean to spine, mild dustiness to the edges of the text block, bright dust jacket with only modest signs of wear. Very good indeed. "IF SHAKESPEARE WAS ANYTHING AT ALL, HE WAS A.... More about Shakespeare and Catholicism

London: Burns, Oates & Washborne, Ltd., 1924. Octavo, original cord-bound illustrated wrappers, front wrapper ruled in green, mounted photographic portrait, Newman's facsimile signature, gilt stars and embossed colored arms, cord-bound. Creasing to lower right corner, bump at base of spine, blank back wrapper clean. Very good indeed. "COR AD COR... More about John Henry Newman: Portraits

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine book with a beautiful dust jacket with only a trace of wear. A near-fine copy. "THE MANY CATHOLIC MEMORIES, SO OVERLOOKED EVEN BY CATHOLICS, THAT CROWD LONDON'S STREETS" First edition of this historical guidebook... More about Catholic London

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo, original black cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. First edition of Flannery O'Connor's engaging letters, an essential component of her published body of work. It was easy for readers in the 1950s and early 60s... More about The Habit of Being; Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original red and original green cloth, volume one in original dust jacket, volume two is ex-library with ink stamp to bottom of the title-page. Volume one is fine, volume two is very good indeed. First edition of Walter Ong's... More about Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue; From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason