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
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First edition. Original stiff card sheet (11 1/2 by 8 inches) folded into three panels. A nearly-fine copy with some gentle spotting and finger-soiling to blank rear panel. About fine. "WHY SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? / THE LORD IS RISEN, AS HE SAID" First..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First edition. Tall octavo (9 7/8 inches tall), original black cloth, original dust wrapper. Very faint tanning and spotting to endpapers, early owner initials in bottom corner of blank flyleaf, scarce dust jacket with mild wear to corners and ends, toning to spine. A near-fine..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original lime green cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine, very slight edge-wear, minor chipping to spine ends of bright dust jacket. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW, WAS A LADY"..... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1933. 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original gilt blue cloth, gilt bright, slightest wear to sharp corners and spine ends, faint stain to centerfront board. A near-fine copy. 'WHAT MADE THE JESUITS THE SCHOOLMASTERS OF EUROPE WAS ORGANIZATION" First edition of this..... More
New York: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket, uncut. Trace of speckling to top edge, touch of creasing to the head of the bright clean dust jacket. A splendid copy. "I WAS HUNG UP AGAIN. THE PAIN WAS INTENSE NOW BUT I FELT GREAT CONSOLATION..... More
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
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
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
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., [1962]. Tall thick octavo (10 inches tall), original blind-and-gilt-stamped pebbled black boards, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, colored ribbon markers, red and black leather tabs, plain unprinted dust wrapper. Two leather tabs worn, gentle creasing to title page. A beautiful copy. American printing of the..... More
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
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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Faint tanning to flyleaves, minor edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE GENIUS FOR ORDER AND BEAUTY OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES" First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and local..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Gilt bright, gentle bumping to corners, slight bubbling to rear board, mild toning to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MONASTIC AGREEMENT OF THE MONKS AND NUNS OF THE ENGLISH NATION" First..... More
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. Early printing. Square 12mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original blind-stamped white paper boards, gilt spine, all edges yapped, marbled endpapers, uncut. Early owner signatures to flyleaf and half-title, minor splitting to hinges and interiors, spine and boards darkened, gilt title still visible, sporadic offsetting..... 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
London: Geoffrey Bless, 1955. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine book, small closed tear at top of front panel, trace of wear to spine ends and corners. An excellent copy. "I GAVE IN, AND ADMITTED THAT GOD WAS GOD, AND KNELT AND PRAYED"..... More
London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt russet morocco, gilt dentelles, patterned gray endpapers with additional patterned flyleaf, all edges gilt. Very gentle edge-wear, minor bumping to still-sharp corners of bright gilt boards. A beautiful copy. First edition of this important..... More
London: Macmillan, 1930. Later edition. 12 mo. (7 1/8 inches), contemporary full brown calf gilt, top edge gilt and gauffered, patterned endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate and owner signature. A nearly fine copy. "THE KING—DEVOUT AND STATELY—ALONE BEFORE THE ALTAR, THE EXQUISITE MUSIC AND THE SINGING OF THE KING'S CHOIR, WHICH..... 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
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
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