San Francisco: The Church Book Shop, 1932. Small quarto (8 1/4 inches tall), original white card pasted in original decorated dust wrappers, uncut. Very mild wear to corners. About Fine. "KEEP THOU THE RADIANT VISION OF THY FACE / UNDIMMED BEFORE MY SIGHT" First edition of this Octave..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Creasing and chipping with loss to upper edges of bright, unclipped jacket. Very good indeed. "I SUDDENLY SAW THAT ALL THE TIME IT WAS NOT I WHO HAD BEEN SEEKING GOD, BUT GOD..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1931. Original blue cloth (6 1/8 inches tall), gilt spine and front board, original printed dust wrapper. Slight mottling to cloth, minor soiling, wear and toning to wrapper. An exceptional copy. "THE CATHOLIC LITURGY IS THE SUPREME EXAMPLE OF AN OBJECTIVELY ESTABLISHED RULE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE"..... More
London & New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, gilt spine, original dust wrapper. Book fine, slight edge wear to unclipped original wrapper. An excellent copy. "ENGLAND LOOKE UP, THY SOYLE IS STAIND WITH BLOOD / THOU HAST MADE MARTIRS MANY OF THINE OWN" First..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original pale grey cloth lettered in yellow, original dust jacket. Book fine, gentle edge-wear, neat tape reinforcement to verso folds of price-clipped dust jacket. Still, a bright, clean, very good indeed copy. "POVERTY IN AMERICA FORMS A CULTURE, A WAY OF..... More
London and New York: John Lane, 1908. Octavo, original molded brown boards, gilt spine, dark top edge, uncut, original printed dust wrapper. Partially unopened, mild foxing to edges, else Fine. "A HOUSE, A GLEBE, A POUND A DAY; / A PLEASANT PLACE TO WATCH AND PRAY. / BE TRUE TO..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash, [1907]. FIrst edition. Small quarto (9 5/8 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Light offsetting to free endpapers, gentle crease to inner margin of title page, gutter cracked at p.32, minor edge-wear and spotting to boards. A near-fine copy. "JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Second edition. Quarto (11 1/2 inches tall), original green cloth, original dust jacket. Small price sticker ("National Gallery of Art") to bottom rear panel of price-clipped dust jacket, else Fine. "THE MOST GORGEOUS EPOCH OF WESTERN OSTENTATION" Second printing of Philip Hofer's "pioneering" survey of..... More
New York: The Douay Bible House, 1953. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), original pebbled black cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped, black endpapers, all edges red, original dust jacket, original cardboard box with printed upper lid with printed label. Book fine, faint ring stain and toning to bright dust jacket, original..... More
Sevilla: Litografía-Imprenta Gomez Hnos. 1931. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original decorated paper wrappers. Spine toned, soiling to edges of front wrapper, corners creased, interiors clean, plates bright. Covered in a clear, folding wrapper. Very good indeed. "A MAYOR GLORIA DE DIOS Y A MAYOR GLORIA DE SU MADRE IMMACULADA..... More
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1948. First American edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original brick red cloth, original dust jacket. Faint bumping to upper corners, mild toning to dust jacket with pencil price inside rear inner flap. A near-fine copy. "TO SUM UP, HOPKINS'S POETRY WAS..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1955. First edition. 12 mo. original brown cloth spine lettered in white, original dust jacket. About-fine book, short closed tear to bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. An exceptional copy. 'THE WORLD'S SORROW, WITH WHICH I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBSESSED...IS ONLY A SHADOW..... 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 original wrapper 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. A near-fine copy. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW..... More
Toronto: Rous & Mann, 1927. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), side-stitched in original gilt-flecked green paper boards, white cloth spine, illustrated mounted paper label. Interiors fine, slight wear to corners and edges, mild toning to front board (not affecting label), tiny scrape to rear board. A near-fine copy. "WITHIN..... More
London: The Studio, 1919. Quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), original color printed wrappers, glassine wrapper bound with red cord through punched holes. Ink notations, minor chipping and tearing to glassine, corners slightly bumped, color plates clean and bright. A near-fine copy. "GOOD KING WENCES-LAS LOOK'D OUT / ON THE FEAST..... 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. About fine. "I WAS HUNG UP AGAIN. THE PAIN WAS INTENSE NOW BUT I FELT GREAT CONSOLATION OF..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1972. First edition. Quarto (11 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped front board, blue endpapers, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Book fine, bright unclipped dust jacket with touch of wear to spine ends and corners, short closed tear to blank upper rear panel..... 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 (7 7/8 inches tall), original burgundy cloth gilt. Owner signature, dated in year of publication, very mild edge-wear to corners and spine ends. A bright, near-fine copy. "THE GREAT PROPHETIC EXPONENT OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE AGES"..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Limited edition. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco, gilt spine with papal arms, marbled boards, red endpapers, top-edge gilt, glassine wrapper, original paper slipcase. Glassine wrapper torn, original slipcase lightly worn at the corners, else Fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN..... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth, original photographic dust jacket. Book gently bumped at top of spine, closed tear and gentle edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the rare dust jacket. "HOW STRONGLY DOES..... 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
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Mild toning to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CONSERVATIVE, IN OUR TIME, MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE OF DON QUIXOTE" First edition of Russell Kirk's prescription for the defense of tradition—published by Henry..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1949. Second edition. Large octavo (10 1/8 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket, upper front corner bumped, slight creasing and edge-wear, gentle toning to spine of unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MONASTIC LIFE MET AND SATISFIED THE DEEPEST SPIRITUAL..... More