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
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
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
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
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
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
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. "SO THE FAITH WAS PLANTED: SO IT MUST BE RESTORED" First edition of Waugh's novelistic biography of the doomed Elizabethan Jesuit..... More
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
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
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
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth with paper spine label, uncut. Upper front corner bumped, scattered foxing to edges of the text block, gentle toning, creasing to spine ends of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CATHOLIC DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN..... More