New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. First American edition. Large octavo (9 inches tall), original gilt red cloth, original pictorial dust jacket, decorated blue endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Bookplate. Plates and text bright and clean. A lovely copy. "ALL THINGS BETRAY THEE, WHO BETRAYEST ME" First American printing... More about The Hound of Heaven; With Illustrations by Stella Langdale
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
London: Burns Oates, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, navy top edge, original dust jacket. Embossed academic blindstamp, slight tanning to blank flyleaves, minor edge-wear, gentle toning to spine of excellent dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy. "THE LUMINOUS PHENOMENA OF MYSTICISM" First edition of the English Jesuit's studies... More about The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1916. First edition. Small octavo, disbound, conjugate frontispiece and title-page, retaining deckle-edges, each leaf measuring 7 3/8 inches tall. Original tissue-guard professionally removed, housed in a custom black double-window mat, measuring 9 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches. Fine. "THEY SAILED FORTH IN... More about S. Brendan the Voyager and His Mythic Quest
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Book near-fine, chipping to corners and spine ends of rare dust jacket. "CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN A GOD IMMANENT AND INCARNATE, WHO TRANSFUSES THE WHOLE OF THE LIFE HE HAS CREATED, AND... More about Essentials of Mysticism and other Essays
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
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924. First edition. Tall octavo (10 inches tall), original black cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine, rare dust jacket with minor foxing on the front panel and moderate foxing on the back panel. A splendid copy. First edition of this two-part... More about Adrian Fortescue; A Memoir
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1943. Third printing. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to bottom of cloth boards, toning to spine, gentle scuffing to still bright dust jacket. A handsome copy. "THE BOOK IS LARGE BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY OF GETTING CHESTERTON ON... More about Gilbert Keith Chesterton
London: John Murray, 1958. Third edition. Small octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with offsetting and bookseller notation in pencil to endpapers, small circular price-sticker residue to front panel of bright dust jacket. Hard to find in this condition. "FOR THE TRUTH IS THAT IN ZEN AS... More about The Spirit of Zen; A Way of Life Work and Art in the Far East
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with mild soiling and edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of Waugh's novelistic biography of the doomed Elizabethan Jesuit. The book is divided into four sections: The Scholar; The... More about Edmund Campion; Jesuit and Martyr in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First American edition. Octavo, original tan cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Staining to joints and hinges of book, wear to spine ends of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "FOR JIM POWERS/WITH WARM REGARDS/FROM/EVELYN WAUGH" First American edition of Waugh's historical novel, published in..... More about Helena
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1905. Second printing. 12 mo, original gray paper boards over blue cloth spine, paper spine label, top edge gilt, uncut. Very slight toning to spine. About-fine. 'IT IS MAN'S SOUL THAT CHRIST IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR. HE CALLS IT 'GOD'S KINGDOM,' AND FINDS IT IN... More about De Profundis
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth with black spine label, original dust jacket. Both book and price-clipped dust jacket are about fine. "PETRARCH WAS THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN OF HIS TIME; AND HE IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MEN OF ALL TIME" First... More about Life of Petrarch