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 about The Prayers of Kierkegaard; Edited and with a New Interpretation of His Life and Thought

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 about His Holiness Pius X; Sovereigns No.28: Caricature of His Holiness Pope Pius X

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 about Peace on Earth; An Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII. Photographs by Magnum

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 about The Crosses and Culture of Ireland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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... More about Junipero Serra; Pioneer Colonist of California

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 about A Little Rosary

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 about The Whimsical Christian; 18 Essays

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 about This is the Mass

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 about A Certain Young Man of Assisi

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 about The Phenomenon of Man

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 about This is the Rosary; With an Introduction by His Holiness Pope John XXIII

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 about Newman; The Pillar of the Cloud with Light in Winter

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 about Man and the Supernatural