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. "MARTYRDOM WAS IN THE AIR OF DOUAI" First edition of Waugh's novelistic biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit, doomed from the moment... 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 Sons, 1952. First American edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Spine ends and corners of book lightly bumped, lightest edgewear to the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "TO BE ROOTED IS PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LEAST RECOGNIZED NEED OF THE HUMAN SOUL"... 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
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, circa 1930. Quarto (11 inches tall). Single leaf of laid paper, deckle edge, watermark in lower right corner, printed on one side in red and black. Faintest of creasing, minute tear to top margin, otherwise bright and fresh. Housed in a cardboard mat. "LOOK DOWN IN... More
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Hong Kong: Catholic Truth Society, 1941. First edition. Octavo, original red brocade silk boards with gilt titling, sewn spine, printed on double-folded leaves, bindery sticker and C.T.S. sticker to bottom of front pastedown. Tiny nick to the top edge of the binding, gentle toning to the edges of front board..... More