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 this lovely..... 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
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
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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. Ninth edition. Original maroon cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), black coated endpapers. Clergyman's ex-libris pasted above half-title, gentle toning to spine, gutter cracked at page ?? touch of wear to spine ends and corners. Very good indeed. "SURELY THE MOST SERENE AND BEAUTIFUL VINDICATION..... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Albert Bender, 1939. Limited edition. Folio sheet (15 by 10 1/2 inches), printed on watermarked paper, folded once to make four pages. Title in black with printer's device on the front page, fore-and-bottom edges uncut, text in gilt and black with..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. Three volumes (9 3/4 inches tall), olive cloth decorated in gilt, clear acetate dust jackets. About-fine. THE NONESUCH EDITION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE First edition of the Nonesuch Bible—a fine set of an exceptional edition of the King James Bible, printed with the Apocrypha..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over black cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Slight toning to spine of price-clipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "NOW THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN SAY ON THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING, AT THE END OF THE..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo, original black cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "EVEN IN THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN, FAITH RISES AND FALLS LIKE THE TIDES OF AN INVISIBLE SEA" First edition of this collection of Flannery O'Connor's engaging..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original green paper boards, silver and gilt blue cloth spine, yellow endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle bump to upper corner, faint offsetting to colored flyleaves, slight creasing to inner flap, spotting to rear flap. A...... More
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. "FOR / HERBERT MARSHALL MCLUHAN..... More
Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1931. Early edition. Octavo, original dark brown cloth, original dust wrapper. Gilt bright, slight spine lean, early presentation inscription (dated, "9th Sept. 1931") to blank flyleaf, sporadic light pencil marks and notes, minor wear to toned spine of the original wrapper. Very good indeed..... More
London: 1933. First edition. Original decorated white paper wrappers (6 1/2 inches tall), yapped edges. Red inkstamp upper corner inside front wrapper, yapped edges worn but still largely intact, creased and closed tear to base of back wrapper. A near-fine copy. "NOTHING LESS THAN THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM IS THE..... More