Chicago: Scepter Limited, 1959. Original white paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall) printed in purple and black, original dust jacket. Minor spotting and soiling to original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WHOSOEVER WILL BE MY DISCIPLE, LET HIM TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY AND FOLLOW ME" First Scepter edition..... 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"... More
n.d. Single card (8 7/8 inches tall), central engraved portrait set in an incised engraved border, both mounted within a slender double frame in red, with pencil caption to lower margin. A nearly fine piece of ephemera. "EVEN WHEN YOU SUFFER SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE, YOU ARE BLESSED"..... More
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1973. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Red ink-stamp to blank flyleaf, minor edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "I SEE THE EFFORTS TO BUILD A MORE JUST, HUMAN, AND FREE SOCIETY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LIBERATION..... 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: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited edition. Tall octavo (10 inches tall), original brocade cloth woven in scarlet and silver thread, renewed endpapers, gilt edges, uncut. Fine. "A HEART ALONE / IS SUCH A STONE / AS NOTHING BUT / THY POWER DOTH CUT" Superb Nonesuch Press edition of..... 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 splendid 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..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (Bible Warehouse) Ltd., c.1905. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 inches tall), original gilt-stamped beveled black cloth, top edge gilt. Gilt bright, very minor wear to spine ends and corners. A bright, sharp-cornered copy. "AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE..... 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: Litografia-Imprenta Gomez Hnos, 1931. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original decorated paper wrappers. Spine toned, soiling to edges of front wrapper, corners creased, interiors clean, plates bright. Housed in a clear, folding wrapper. Very good indeed. "A MAYOR GLORIA DE DIOS Y A MAJOR GLORIA DE SU..... 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: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1939. First American edition. Octavo, original orange red cloth, bottom edge uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with small creased tear to top rear panel, very faint toning to spine and edges. A handsome copy. "THE HEAVENLY SECRETS OPENED UPON THEM, AND THERE..... 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 dust jacket 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, original glassine bound with cord through punched holes. Ink notation, chipping and tearing to glassine wrappers, corners slightly bumped, color plates clean and bright. A near-fine copy. "GOOD KING WENCES-LAS LOOK'D OUT / ON THE FEAST OF..... 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. A splendid copy. "I WAS HUNG UP AGAIN. THE PAIN WAS INTENSE NOW BUT I FELT GREAT CONSOLATION..... 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
Boston: Tichnor and Fields, 1864. First American edition. 12 mo. (7 1/8 inches tall), blind-stamped boards with gilt spine, coated endpapers, all edges red. Early owner signature to upper title page, faint toning to spine, slight wear to corners and spine ends with very short tear to upper spine. Now..... 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..... 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..... More