Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Limited edition. Small quarto, original 3/4 red morocco with patterned paper boards, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Book near-fine with some wear to intact original slipcase. Handsome limited edition of the "Fioretti di San Francesco." The edition is derived from the text... More about The Little Flowers of St. Francis
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
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint toning to spine and front panel of bright, clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "AGAPE LIES AT THE HEART OF ALL BEING" First edition of Frederick Wilhelmsen's engaging attempt to comprehend the meaning of... More about The Metaphysics of Love
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