London: Burns and Oates, 1963. First edition. Quarto (11 3/4 inches tall), original dark red beveled cloth boards with gilt vignette, pink endpapers, dark red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket. Gentle bumping to rear corners, faint tape mark to blank flyleaves, touch of crimping to spine..... More
London: Art and Book Company, 1896. First edition. Octavo, original illustrated white cloth stamped in black and silver, uncut. Bookplate. Tanning to blank flyleaves, offsetting from bookplate, slight lean to toned spine, mild fading to mottled front board, corners bumped. Very good indeed. "THE IDEAL OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER" Rare..... 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: Burns & Oates, 1961. First edition thus. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. A bright, about-fine copy. "THUS JESUS CHRIST, WHO DOETH GOOD AGAINST EVIL, IS OUR VERY MOTHER" Superb "Orchard Books" edition of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, a new translation of..... 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
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
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
London: The De La More Press, 1902. First edition. Quarto, original vellum spine, gilt and blind stamped gray paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Soiling to spine, toned edges, corners bumped, foxing to blank flyleaf, binding sturdy, closed tear to plate VII (not affecting image) else interior text and plates..... 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
New York: Pantheon, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with minor wear along front fold and two small chips to the upper margin of the front panel. An excellent copy. 'A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS AQUINAS AS HE TRULY CONCERNS PHILOSOPHICAL-MINDED PERSONS..... More
Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1903. First edition. Small quarto (9 inches tall), original navy cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Gilt bright, corners sharp, spine and edges toned, interior crack to textblock holding firm, endpapers tanned, scattered foxing throughout the text. A near-fine copy. "BENEDICO TUTTI" First edition—in..... More
London: Vanity Fair, 1903. Chromolithographic print. Single sheet. December, 1903. Handsomely matted and framed (framed piece measures 14 7/8 x 20 1/4). Vanity Fair magazine published from late 1868 to early 1914 and a caricature was the special feature in most issues. This portrait of the new pontiff, by the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First limited edition. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, red endpapers, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Light wear to original slipcase. Book fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHAIR OF..... 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
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
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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Octavo, modern full crushed red morocco, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Fine. "NARROW IS THE MANSION OF MY SOUL" Finely-illustrated-and-bound edition of Augustine's Confessions, translated from the Latin by E.B. Pusey. The spiritual autobiography is the ideal introduction to the life and thought..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1966. First American edition. Octavo. Original pink cloth, original dust jacket. A bright, clean, about-fine copy. "YOU HAVE ONE TEACHER AND YOU ARE ALL BRETHREN" (MT 23:8) First American edition of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger's ecumenical essay, foreshadowing the work of the Second..... More
Newport: R.H. Johns Limited, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, maroon top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Minor spotting to edges of the text block, modest edge-wear to the unfaded and unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE GOLDEN THREAD OF AN UNDYING AND UNCONQUERABLE FAITH" Scarce first..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, 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 ATLANTIC COAST KNOWS LITTLE BUT HIS NAME, AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN THAT; BUT..... 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
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1953. First edition. Original patterned paper boards (11 1/8 inches tall) over gray cloth spine, top edge gilt, uncut. Very faint offsetting from plates. About fine. "FRANCIS, GO, REPAIR MY HOUSE THAT THOU SEEST IS ALL IN RUINS" Limited illustrated edition of the Legends of Francis..... 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