London: Burns, Oates, & Co., 1870. First edition. 12mo. (7 3/4 inches tall), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt spine, coated endpapers. Ex-Dominican library bookplate, endpaper inscription, small ink-stamp to verso of title. Uppermost margin of title page clipped (not affecting text), expert reinforcement to inner hinges, slight wear to ends..... 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
London: T.C & E.C. Jack, [c.1907]. Small quarto (6 inches tall), original gilt navy cloth with mounted illustration, satin ribbon marker, top edge gilt, uncut. "THE PURE AND SIMPLE LIVES OF THE SAINTS OF GOD" First edition of Mary Macgregor's lives of Saints Francis, Columba, and Cuthbert for children—a lovely..... More
London: The De La More Press, 1902. First edition. Quarto, original vellum spine, gilt and blind stamped gray paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Soiling to spine, toned edges, corners bumped, foxing to blank flyleaf, binding sturdy, closed tear to plate VII (not affecting image) else interior text and plates..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1956. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original cloth spine, marbled paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, small chip to upper rear upper panel of the excellent dust jacket. "CHURCH ART TODAY—AS AT ANY OTHER PERIOD—WORKS WITH THE FORMS, COLOURS AND MATERIALS OF..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with minor wear along front fold and two small chips to the upper margin of the front panel. An excellent copy. 'A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS AQUINAS AS HE TRULY CONCERNS PHILOSOPHICAL-MINDED PERSONS..... More
London: Vanity Fair, 1903. Chromolithographic print. Single sheet. December, 1903. Handsomely matted and framed (framed piece measures 14 7/8 x 20 1/4). Vanity Fair magazine published from late 1868 to early 1914 and a caricature was the special feature in most issues. This portrait of the new pontiff, by the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First limited edition. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, red endpapers, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Light wear to original slipcase. Book fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHAIR OF..... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Top of spine bumped, closed tear and minor wear to clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy, rare in the dust jacket. "EVERY BELIEVER IN THIS WORLD OF OURS MUST BE A SPARK..... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Imperceptible wear to spine ends and corners. A beautiful copy. POPE JOHN XXIII'S "PACEM IN TERRIS" First edition of this elegant illustrated printing of Pope John XXIII's "Pacem in Terris," the dying..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. First edition. Quarto, original green cloth. A crisp, sharp-cornered copy in near-fine condition. First edition of this series of lectures on the Golden Age of Celtic Christianity by the great Harvard medievalist. Arthur Kingsley Porter was the William Dore Boardman Professor of Fine Arts..... More
London: Illustrated News of the World, 1890. Original broadside print (measuring 23 by 16 inches), custom mounted on tabs in a black window mat. Folding crease across center sheet, else Fine. "THEN LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT US A SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST, AND PEACE AT THE LAST" Requiem..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1966. First American edition. Octavo. Original pink cloth, original dust jacket. A bright, clean, about-fine copy. "YOU HAVE ONE TEACHER AND YOU ARE ALL BRETHREN" (MT 23:8) First American edition of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger's ecumenical essay, foreshadowing the work of the Second..... More
Newport: R.H. Johns Limited, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, maroon top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Minor spotting to edges of the text block, modest edge-wear to the unfaded and unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE GOLDEN THREAD OF AN UNDYING AND UNCONQUERABLE FAITH" Scarce first..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, mounted labels, cartographic endpapers, uncut, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor creasing to edges of bright and fresh dust jacket. About-fine. "THE ATLANTIC COAST KNOWS LITTLE BUT HIS NAME, AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN THAT; BUT..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1951. First edition. 12 mo. (7 3/8 inches tall), original gilt black cloth, original dust jacket. Faint tanning to blank flyleaf, gentle toning to jacket, else about Fine. "AH, THE SAVIOR IN HER STILL WAS BUD / BUT IN HER COUSIN'S WOMB, THE BAPTIST COULD /..... More
London: Lee Warner / The Medici Society, 1912. Limited edition. Large quarto (12 inches tall), original beveled vellum boards, gilt spine and front board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, silk ribbon marker. Very mild soiling to vellum boards. A nearly-fine copy. "WE OWE A DEBT TO MRS MEYNELL AND..... More
London: Gerald Howe, 1926. Limited edition. Octavo (9 inches tall), original white paper boards, git spine and front board, original ribbon marker, top edge gilt, uncut. Mild spotting to spine, else Fine. "LET IT BE THEN THAT YOU WILL SAY A PATER NOSTER AND AN AVE MARIA FOR ME EVERY..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1914. 12 mo. (7 inches tall), original gilt purple cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Gilt boards bright, early owner signature, slight browning to text, tanning to early and later leaves, crack to inner gutter but text and binding holding. Very good indeed. "THE SPUR..... More
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1953. First edition. Original patterned paper boards (11 1/8 inches tall) over gray cloth spine, top edge gilt, uncut. Very faint offsetting from plates. About fine. "FRANCIS, GO, REPAIR MY HOUSE THAT THOU SEEST IS ALL IN RUINS" Limited illustrated edition of the Legends of Francis..... More