New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Imperceptible wear to spine ends and corners. A beautiful copy. POPE JOHN XXIII'S "PACEM IN TERRIS" First edition of this elegant illustrated printing of Pope John XXIII's "Pacem in Terris," the dying... More
London: Vanity Fair, 1903. Chromolithographic print. December 1903. Single sheet, measuring 14 x 9 inches, captioned in the margin with imprint, date, and lithographer. Handsomely matted and framed, measuring 24 1/2 x 19 inches. Beautiful condition. "HIS HOLINESS PIUS X" Splendid color-printed lithographic portrait of Pope Pius X, published shortly... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. First edition. Quarto, original green cloth. A crisp, sharp-cornered copy in near-fine condition. First edition of this series of lectures on the Golden Age of Celtic Christianity by the great Harvard medievalist. Arthur Kingsley Porter was the William Dore Boardman Professor of Fine Arts... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1966. First American edition. Octavo. Original pink cloth, original dust jacket. An about-fine copy. "YOU HAVE ONE TEACHER AND YOU ARE ALL BRETHREN" (MT 23:8) First American edition of Joseph Ratzinger's ecumenical essay, originally prepared as an address in 1958. Ratzinger was a young peritus... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1947. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth with mounted labels, cartographic endpapers, uncut, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor creasing to edges of bright and fresh dust jacket. About-fine. "THE APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA" First edition of Repplier's biography of the famed 18th-century... More
London: Vision Press Limited, 1951. Early English translation. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Small owner signature to corner of free endpaper, toned dust jacket with closed tears on either side of the spine ends. Very good indeed. "EACH ONE, FILLED WITH HER OWN SACRED GOOD/USED THE OTHER... More
Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1930. First edition. Twelvemo, deckle-edged, handmade paper with watermark, uncut and unbound sheets in two sections each measuring 8 1/2 x 18 inches, each folded to measure 6 x 4 1/2 inches. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Fine. THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES, THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, THE... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963-1966. Mixed edition. Four volumes. Octavo, original brick red cloth, yellow top edges, uncut, original photographic dust jackets. "MOTHER CHURCH REJOICES!" Mixed American edition of Xavier Rynne's Letters from Vatican City series, a rare complete set of the Debates and Decrees of Vatican Council... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Octavo, original purple cloth over lavender boards, original dust jacket. Upper right corner bumped. About-fine. "SIMPLE, POWERFUL REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE SCIENTIFIC AGE" First edition thus of this collection of essays. Dorothy Sayers was something of a jack-of-all-trades with... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original half gray cloth and teal paper boards, original dust jacket. Gentle fade to the upper margins of blue boards, in an excellent dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. First American edition of E. F. Schumacher's "spiritual map," a further development of... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. Quarto (8.25 x 11 inches), original blue cloth with gilt stamped vignette, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Chipping and wear to spine of price-clipped dust jacket. "NOBODY HAS EVER WRITTEN STORIES FOR CHILDREN THAT CAN MATCH THE BIBLE FOR THEIR DRAMA AND SIMPLICITY... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958. First edition. Small folio (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "INTROÏBO AD ALTARE DEI" First edition in English of this pictorial narrative of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as celebrated by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal grey cloth, original dust jacket. Slight creasing to upper front panel of the dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE FRANCISCAN BASILICA AT ASSISI IS MORE THAN THE SHRINE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF MEDIEVAL SAINTS: IT IS NO LESS THE CRADLE... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited edition. Folio (10 7/8 inches tall), marbled boards over a half cloth spine. printed paper spine label, uncut. Sharp corners, fully intact paper spine label. Very modest wear and soiling to original boards. A nearly-fine copy. "HIS SPIRIT WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1944. First edition. Small octavo, original illustrated cloth, original dust jacket. A fine book in a near-fine dust jacket. Rare complete and in this overall condition. CHRISTMAS IN POST-WAR AMERICA. First edition of Philip Van Doren Stern's classic Christmas story, the genesis for director Frank Capra's film... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Early printing. Octavo, original blue cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Clean cloth boards, unclipped and unfaded dust jacket with closed tears to top edge and upper flap of front panel, very faint stain to center of back panel, very slight speckling to spine of... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1961. First edition. Small folio (10 1/8 inches tall), original half gold and magenta cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends, two closed tears, a small chip and gentle creasing to the base of the back panel. A.... More
London: Burns Oates, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, navy top edge, original dust jacket. Embossed academic blindstamp, slight tanning to blank flyleaves, minor edge-wear, gentle toning to spine of excellent dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy. "THE LUMINOUS PHENOMENA OF MYSTICISM" First edition of the English Jesuit's studies... More
London: The Society of SS Peter and Paul, 1916. Small octavo, conjugate frontispiece and title-page, disbound, each leaf measuring 7 3/8 inches tall, retaining deckle-edges. Gorgeous pictorial frontispiece and illustrated title-page, part of a suite of illustrations prepared by Martin Travers to accompany S. Brendan The Voyager and His Mythic... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962-1963. First edition. Two volumes, Octavo, original gray cloth with green and red spine labels, uncut, original dust jackets. Books near-fine, splitting to front paper hinge on volume II, dust jackets with only minor edge-wear and creasing to spine ends. Very good indeed. First editions of Trevor's... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Book near-fine, chipping to corners and spine ends of rare dust jacket. "christians believe in a god immanent and incarnate, who transfuses the whole of the life which he has created... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original printed dust jacket. Cloth bright and fresh, offsetting to front and rear endpapers. Mild toning and spotting to spine of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of this collection by the Anglo-Catholic mystic on the contrast... 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." The edition is derived from the text... More
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924. First edition. Tall octavo (10 inches tall), original black cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine, rare dust jacket with minor foxing on the front panel and moderate foxing on the back panel. A splendid copy. First edition of this two-part... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First English edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine with only faint offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is crisp and bright. "THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF A WORLD WITHOUT GOD" First British edition of this collection of seven essays, with... More