London: Burns & Oates, Ltd., 1915. First edition. Original pale red cloth (7 inches tall), gilt borders and titles, top edge gilt, uncut. Partially unopened, faint toning to spine, gentle mottling to boards but still a bright, sharp, nearly fine copy. "THE POPE HAS CAST HIS ARMS ABROAD FOR AGONY..... 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
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, coated scarlet endpapers, top edge red, original dust jacket. Book fine, several penciled notes, mild toning, modest chipping to spine head of price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce. "THERE IS ONLY ONE COUNTRY THAT CAN BOAST OF BEING 'THE ELDEST..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in white, original dust jacket. Bookplate removed from front endpaper of fine book, moderate wear to spine and rear panel of price-clipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "DOES IT MATTER? GRACE IS EVERYWHERE" First American printing of the first..... More
New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1948. First American edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original brick red cloth, original dust jacket. Faint bumping to upper corners, mild toning to dust jacket with pencil price inside rear inner flap. A near-fine copy. "TO SUM UP, HOPKINS'S POETRY WAS..... More
London: Burns & Oates, [c.1906]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), 8 pages, side-stitched in original blue-grey wrappers, uncut. Interiors fine, faint toning and creasing to original wrappers, interiors Fine. A clean and bright copy. BY THAT BLOOD YE HOLD IN FEE / THIS EARTH OF ENGLAND; KINGS ARE..... 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: Fordham University Press, 1972. First edition. Quarto (11 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped front board, blue endpapers, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Book fine, bright unclipped dust jacket with touch of wear to spine ends and corners, short closed tear to blank upper rear panel..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Small early owner signature. A bright copy in an unclipped jacket. About Fine. "A VERY SIMPLE BUT ALMOST FULLY FLEDGED PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY MAKES ITS APPEARANCE AS SOON AS MAN BELIEVES THAT GOD'S JUSTICE WILL WORK..... More
London: Macdonald and Evans, 1908. First edition. Original red cloth (6 5/8 inches tall), gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt armorial to front, top edge gilt, uncut. Slight lean to toned spine, mild offsetting to blank flyleaves. Very good indeed. "BLESSED EDMUND CAMPION WAS 'A RELIGIOUS GENIUS,' WITH A...... More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1953]. 24mo. (5 5/8 inches tall), contemporary full caramel brown calf, central gilt monogram, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine. "THE ENGLISH HYMNAL IS A COLLECTION OF THE BEST HYMNS IN THE LANGUAGE" Beautifully bound mid-century edition of The English Hymnal—monogrammed..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953. First edition. Quarto (10 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt spine, blind-stamped front board, original dust wrapper. A near fine copy. "THE DRUMS SHALL BEAT, AND THE TRUMPETS SOUND, AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUT, CRYING OUT: GOD SAVE QUEEN ELIZABETH / LONG LIVE QUEEN ELIZABETH..... More
New York: The John Lane Company, 1905. First American edition. Original red cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), gilt titles to spine and front board. Bookplate. Front upper corner bumped, very slight wear to corners and spine ends. A near fine copy. "THE SERIOUS OPPONENT OF THE LATIN CHURCH IN HISTORY..... 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original green cloth, gilt titles, green top edge, original dust jacket. Book fine, faint toning to spine, very short closed tears to spine and front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly fine copy. "Nobel..... More
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1935. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 inches tall), original red and white cloth, gilt spine, illustrated endpapers, original dust wrapper. Slight blemishes to blank rear panel of the price-clipped dust jacket, else Fine. "THE KERNEL OF OUR LORD'S TEACHING" Fine illustrated edition of the..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles / The Centenary Press, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, printed paper label, uncut original dust jacket. Mild tanning to blank flyleaves. Fine. "MEN VIE WITH EACH OTHER TO HOUND FROM THIS UNHAPPY PLANET GOD'S SANCTITY, BLASPHEMED BY SOME, PROFANED BY OTHERS" First book edition of..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1921. Fifth edition. Contemporary three-quarter crushed red morocco (6 7/8 inches tall), marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. faint spotting to front cloth board. A nearly fine copy. "AT THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WE SHALL NOT BE ASKED WHAT WE HAVE READ, BUT WHAT WE HAVE..... More
San Francisco: The Church Book Shop, 1932. Small quarto (8 1/4 inches tall), original white card pasted in original decorated dust wrappers, uncut. Very mild wear to corners. About Fine. "KEEP THOU THE RADIANT VISION OF THY FACE / UNDIMMED BEFORE MY SIGHT" First edition of this Octave of Hymns..... 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
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
Denville, New Jersey: Dimension Books, Inc., 1969. First American edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Sporadic neat pencil underlining, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. A near fine copy. 'DO NOT MAN'S WORDS FLOW OUT OF WHAT FILLS HIS HEART?" First edition of the French Dominican's meditations..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. A fine copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. "THE CHURCH, THIS PERFECT SOCIETY, IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST" First edition of this collection of essays..... More
London: St. Christopher Press / Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1931. First edition. Original green cloth (6 3/4 inches tall) stamped in black, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Very gentle bumping to corner, early owner signature to blank flyleaf, clipped dust jacket bright and clean. A near-fine copy. "I HAVE..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1962. First American edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Mild toning to bright, unclipped original dust jacket. A near fine copy. "THE HOLIEST EARTH IN ENGLAND" First American edition of the Flowering Hawthorn—the "story of "the coming of Christianity to the English-speaking world"—illustrated..... More