London: Faber and Faber, 1941. First edition. Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle bumping to lower edges of bright cloth boards, price-clipped dust jacket with toning to top of front panel, clean loss to head of toned spine. Very good indeed. "THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH WAS THEN, AND ALWAYS... More about Witchcraft
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
Lyon: Petri Rigaud, 1607. Early edition. Small octavo (6 3/4 inches tall), contemporary brown morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, central coat of arms within a lozenge design of small leafy tools, corners with sprigs, fillet border. Calligraphic ink inscription in Latin dated 1611 to blank flyleaf, mild dampstaining... More about De Vita B. Francisci Xavierii; Qui primus è Societate Iesu in Indiam & Iaponiam Evangelium...
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
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. First American edition. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt. Owner signature, dated in year of publication, very mild edge-wear. A near-fine copy. "THE GREAT PROPHETIC EXPONENT OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE AGES" First American edition of this compendium of Ruskin's remarks on... More about Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton
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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Second edition, third printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine of near-fine book. dust jacket with only a faint smudge to front panel. Nearly-fine. Early printing of the first translation in English of Kierkegaard's "psychological deliberation" on original sin... More about The Concept of Dread; Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by Walter Lowrie
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: 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 about The Screwtape Letters
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
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 about Liturgy of the Roman Church
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1956. Early edition. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, photographic endpapers. Jesuit stamp to blank flyleaf. Housed in a custom blue morocco chemise and slipcase. Fine. "THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE WHICH MAKES IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY DISTINCTIVE" Limited printing of the Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola, combined with... More about St. Ignatius' Own Story; With a Sampling of His Letters
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: 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 about The Pope; Considered in his relations with the Church, Temporal Sovereignties, Separated...
London: The Medici Society, Ltd., 1922. First edition. Octavo, original gilt blue cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original printed dust jacket. Light foxing to blank endpapers. Mild toning to spine of scarce dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "SHE WAS FILLED WITH DIVINE GRACE IN ALL HER WAYS" First edition of... More about Legends of Our Lady Mary; The Perpetual Virgin and Her Mother Hanna
New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1947. First edition thus. 24mo. (6 inches tall), original brown pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. 'KNOW, MY SON, MY MUCH BELOVED, THAT I AM THE EVER TRUE VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE TRUE GOD" First edition thus of Fr. George Lee's study of... More about Our Lady of Guadalupe; Patroness of the Americas
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
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 about Non-Violence; A Christian Interpretation
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original charcoal cloth, original dust jacket, maroon top edge, uncut. Early owner signature (dated in year of publication) to nearly fine book, bright dust jacket reinforced on the verso. A near-fine copy. "I SEEK TO CREATE AFRESH THE STAGES BY WHICH... More about The Captive Mind
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
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 about The History of Catholic Church Music
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: 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 about The Princesse de Clèves
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 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 about John Henry Newman - Autobiographical Writings