New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First American edition. original navy cloth, lettered in white, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, jacket clipped but price intact, very faint edge-wear to bright clean jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "MISEDUCATION OF YOUNG MINDS" First American edition of The Abolition of Man, collecting a series..... More
London: Geoffrey Bless: The Centenary Press, 1944. First edition. Original white cloth (7 3/8 inches tall), lettered in blue, original dust jacket. Early owner signature. A nearly-fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket. "THE SON OF GOD BECAME A MAN TO ENABLE MEN TO BECOME SONS OF GOD" First..... More
London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt russet morocco, gilt dentelles, patterned gray endpapers with additional patterned flyleaf, all edges gilt. Very gentle edge-wear, minor bumping to still-sharp corners of bright gilt boards. A beautiful copy. First edition of this important..... More
London: Macmillan, 1930. Later edition. 12 mo. (7 1/8 inches), contemporary full brown calf gilt, top edge gilt and gauffered, patterned endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate and owner signature. A nearly fine copy. "THE KING—DEVOUT AND STATELY—ALONE BEFORE THE ALTAR, THE EXQUISITE MUSIC AND THE SINGING OF THE KING'S CHOIR, WHICH..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1959. Quarto (10 inches tall) original gray cloth, gray endpapers, gray top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner signature and bookseller's stamp to blank flyleaf, toned spine, browning to laminated edges on verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "MAY THIS WORK CONTINUE..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. First edition. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark red crushed morocco, two ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Very minor toning to spine, faint crack to front joint, gentle wear to head of spine and one upper corner. A near-fine. "COUNTLESS MARTYRS CHEERFULLY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Original red cloth (7 5/8 iches tall), original dust jacket. Tape repair to verso ends of mildly toned spine. A nearly-fine copy. "THE FIRST AND THE LAST THING THAT CHAUCER WROTE WAS PRAYER. IT FINDS ITS PROPER PLACE IN WORKS BETWEEN"... More
London: Burns and Oates, 1874. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco (7 1/8 inches tall), marbled boards, endpapers and edges, satin ribbon marker. Modest edge-wear to boards, small chip to head of faintly toned spine, faint offsetting to last page of letter. An excellent copy. "OBEDIENCE TO THE CHURCH IS..... More
London: Chatto and Windus: Publishers, 1908. Small quarto (6 3/8 inches tall), original blind-stamped brown pigskin, original hinge-strap metal clasps. Minor tanning to endpapers. About-fine. "RELIGION AND CHIVALRY JOINED HANDS" "BETHINK YOU, GENTLE LADY, OF YOUR VERY GREAT GRACE, TO GRANT A GOOD LIFE, AND A GOOD END TO ALL..... More
New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1947. First edition thus. 24mo. (6 inches tall), original brown pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. 'KNOW, MY SON, MY MUCH BELOVED, THAT I AM THE EVER TRUE VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE TRUE GOD" First edition thus of Fr. George Lee's..... More
Paterson, New Jersey: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original stamped blue cloth, decorated endpapers, original dust jacket. Book near-fine, modest creasing and edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "MEXICO IS A LAND WITH DEEP AND WIDESPREAD DEVOTION TO MARY" First edition of..... More
London: Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1916. First edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original gilt-stamped tan paper boards, gilt-stamped cloth spine, tan endpapers, uncut. Early owner signature, mild toning to spine and upper margin front board, gentle bumping to corners, very slight wear to spine ends. A...... 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
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1942. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Christmas presentation inscription to blank flyleaf, jacket with minor creasing to spine head. A near-fine copy. "BROTHER MARTIN WAS NOT ON HIS KNEES. THE POWER OF GOD HAD LIFTED HIM FROM THE FLOOR..... More
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1938. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, faint bumping to upper corners, significant tape repair to verso of unclipped original dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS NEVER NUMBERED AMONGST ITS CHILDREN..... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo, original black pebbled cloth spine, charcoal cloth boards, uncut, original glassine wrapper. A crisp, clean book in the substantial remains of the original wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "WITHIN THY FATHER'S ARMS / PEACE BE TO DEATH'S ALARMS / AND IN GOD'S MOTHERING..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: Trappist, Kentucky, U.S.A., 1949. First edition. Folio (12 inches tall), original gilt blue paper wrappers with mounted illustration, russet endpapers. Early owner signature to flyleaf and half-title, gentle toning to edges, slight wear to mounted illustration, not affecting image. A near-fine copy. "THIS BOOK IS A SONG OF..... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels, original dust jacket. Fine. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES OF THE WORLD LIKE CLOTHING AND ENTER NAKED INTO WISDOM" First revised edition of Thomas Merton's meditations on the spiritual life—printed in the same year as..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, slate blue top edge, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. An excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped dust jacket with only mild wear to spine ends and corners. A near fine copy. "THERE IS INTOXICATION IN THE WATERS..... More
Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, circa 1963. Folio broadside (measuring 16 by 11 inches tall), single deckle-edged leaf with watermark, printed in two colors on recto only, with single dotted rule border and captions. Custom tab-mounted on a black mat (measuring 24 by 19 inches). About-fine. A handsome piece of..... More
London: Burns and Oates, 1963. First edition. Quarto (11 3/4 inches tall), original dark red beveled cloth boards with gilt vignette, pink endpapers, dark red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket. Gentle bumping to rear corners, faint tape mark to blank flyleaves, touch of crimping to spine..... More
London: Art and Book Company, 1896. First edition. Octavo, original illustrated white cloth stamped in black and silver, uncut. Bookplate. Tanning to blank flyleaves, offsetting from bookplate, slight lean to toned spine, mild fading to mottled front board, corners bumped. Very good indeed. "THE IDEAL OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER"... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Slight offsetting to endpapers, ex-libris: faint ink-stamps (St. Paul's Friary Graymoor) to endpapers, tiny signature ("Ad Usum / Fr. Luke, S.A."), mild edge-wear, chipping to ends of toned dust jacket..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. Third edition. Two volumes. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt vellum, watered silk endpapers, ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Bookplates, bookseller's ticket, gilt bindings bright and sharp. A near-fine set. "A GROWING PASSION FOR THE WORKS OF ART OF THE MIDDLE..... More
London: James Hewetson & Son, 1907. Small quarto (7 1/4 inches tall), original white paper spine with printed label, white textured paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut, original publisher's dust wrapper. Slight wear to spine head, very faint spotting and soiling to boards, mild tanning to blank flyleaves. A handsome..... More