London: Burns Oates, 1958. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, burgundy top edge, original dust jacket. About-fine. "TO AND FRO AMID MY STRIVINGS AND RESIGNATIONS MOVE, IN MEMORY, THE BLACK-ROBED BENEDICTINE FATHERS WITH THEIR GRACIOUS SILENCES AND BUSY LIFE OF PRAYER" "New Edition" of A Spiritual Aeneid, the best edition of Ronald... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Only slightest of edge-wear to bright and fresh dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "SEND FORTH THY SPIRIT AND THOU SHALT RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH" First edition in English of this work... More
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
New York: Macmillan, 1943. Early edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine except for two small dents at the bottom edges, price-clipped dust jacket with minor creasing and chips to corners. Bookplate. A clean, fresh copy. "THE LOWERARCHY OF HELL" Early American printing of Lewis's satire, a.... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine with only a smattering of foxing to the front pastedown. Dust jacket with just a trace of creasing to the spine ends. A bright, fresh copy. First American... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, black top edge, original dust jacket. Neat owner signature, dated "Christmas 1963" in upper corner of front endpaper. About-fine. "THE PERFECT CHURCH SERVICE WOULD BE ONE WE WERE ALMOST UNAWARE OF. OUR ATTENTION WOULD HAVE BEEN ON GOD" First edition... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. First edition. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark red crushed morocco, two ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Very faint toning to spine, gentle wear to head of spine and one upper corner. About-fine. "COUNTLESS MARTYRS CHEERFULLY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES RATHER THAN FOREGO THE SAYING OR... More
London: Charles Dolman, 1850. First edition. Octavo (7 3/8 inches tall). Original purple cloth with gilt spine and blind-stamped papal arms, coated yellow endpapers, uncut. Ex-library with bookplate and shelf number to front pastedown, boards largely toned to brown, scattered foxing, corners bumped, edges of the text block darkened, expertly... More
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
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original burlap boards with two mounted paper labels, original dust jacket. Owner signature to blank flyleaf, instance of finger-soiling to front panel of the dust jacket and gentle creasing to the head of the spine. A near-fine copy. "LET US THROW OFF... More
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Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. Later printing. Octavo, original black cloth, gold ribbon marker, uncut, original dust jacket. Fine. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HERAT WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Fiftieth anniversary edition of Merton's timeless spiritual autobiography. This elegant edition features an Introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a.... More
London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book fine, very mild soiling and edge-wear to bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS... More
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
Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original light green cloth, original dust jacket. Only minor creasing and wear to spine ends of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE TRADITIONAL GREGORIAN CHANT, USED BY PRIEST, CHOIR AND PEOPLE, OCCUPIES THE FIRST PLACE IN CHURCH MUSIC" First English translation... More
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
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original brick cloth, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. Lightest shelfwear to jacket, light offsetting to endpapers. A near-fine copy. First edition of English novelist Nancy Mitford's translation of Madame de Lafayette's seventeenth-century novel, a high spot of French Literature. Illustrated with a.... More
London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Both the book and the dust jacket are in excellent condition. A nearly-fine copy. "JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: 'LUMEN ET DECUS EXIMIUM' OF THE ENGLISH NATION" First edition of this collection of John... More
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1913. Later edition. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt and blind- stamped spine. The text block is cracked between title and contents pages but the red cloth boards are sharp-cornered, fresh and bright. Comprehensive "Oxford Edition" of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, collecting... More
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
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original green paper boards over blue cloth spine, yellow endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Fine. "I AM CONCERNED THAT FUTURE CATHOLICS HAVE A LITERATURE" First edition of this posthumous collection by Flannery O'Connor, her first book of... More
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
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, dark top edge, original dust jacket. Lower corners bumped, staining and soiling to spine and rear panel of dust jacket. A very good copy. "FATHER IN HEAVEN!" First edition of LeFevre's reinterpretation of Kierkegaard as a religious thinker. Lefevre... More
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with neat academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First limited edition. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Original slipcase lightly worn at the corners. Book fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHAIR OF ST. MARK" Deluxe limited first... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Top of spine bumped, closed tear and minor wear to clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy, rare in the dust jacket. "EVERY BELIEVER IN THIS WORLD OF OURS MUST BE A SPARK... More