New York: 1965. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth and blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to boards, shallow indent to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "NOW SHE RESTS WELL AT NIGHT AND HER GOOD LOOKS HAVE MOSTLY RETURNED" First edition of a.... More about Everything that Rises Must Converge
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 about The Habit of Being; Letters of Flannery O'Connor
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original green paper boards over blue cloth spine, yellow endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Fine. "I AM CONCERNED THAT FUTURE CATHOLICS HAVE A LITERATURE" First edition of this posthumous collection by Flannery O'Connor, her first book of... More about Mystery and Manners; Occasional Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
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 about Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue; From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason
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 about Monastic Seals of the XIII Century; A Series of Examples, Illustrating the Nature of Their Design...
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: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with neat academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped... More about My Way of Faith
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 about Sede Vacante; Being a Diary Written During the Conclave of 1903
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: 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 about Journal of a Soul
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 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 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
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to corners and spine ends of unfaded and unclipped dust jacket. A bright, clean copy. "A SALVATION OF THE WORLD DOES EXIST" First American edition of Joseph Ratzinger's best-known book, in the bright... More about Introduction to Christianity
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 about The Open Circle; The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood
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 about Junipero Serra; Pioneer Colonist of California
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 about The Life of the Virgin Mary; The German text with an English translation and introduction by...
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: 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 about Second Vatican Council) Letters from Vatican City
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. "ALL GREAT WORKS OF ART ARE 'ABOUT GOD' IN THE SENSE THAT THEY... More about A Guide for the Perplexed
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
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 about The Assisi Problem and the Art of Giotto; A Study of the Legend of St. Francis in the Upper...
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
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 about The Greatest Gift; A Christmas Tale
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