New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922. First American edition. Large octavo (9 inches tall), original gilt red cloth, original pictorial dust jacket, decorated blue endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Bookplate. Plates and text bright and clean. A lovely copy. "ALL THINGS BETRAY THEE, WHO BETRAYEST ME" First American printing... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First edition. Narrow and slender (7 1/8 inches tall), original blue cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Small original owner signature (dated in year of publication), mild offsetting to margins of front and rear blanks, faint stain to front panel, two short closed tears to rear... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1897. Later edition. Small quarto (8 1/8 inches tall), contemporary full tree-calf gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Bookplate. About-fine. "SUN OF MY SOUL, THOU SAVIOUR DEAR / IT IS NOT NIGHT IF THOU BE NEAR" Late Victorian edition of John Keble's poetic meditations on the... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), original staple-bound pictorial wrappers. Gentle toning to wrappers and interiors, staples browned. A near-fine copy. "THE NINETEENTH CENTURY LEFT EVERYTHING IN CHAOS; AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THOMISM TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS THAT IT MAY GIVE US... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. Later edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Trace of wear to corners of nearly fine book, bright and unclipped dust jacket with short closed tear and minor wear to spine ends and corners. "I WILL SLEEP ROUGH AND COVER THIRTY MILES A DAY... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1935]. Early edition. 12mo., original red cloth lettered in black, original dust jacket. About-fine book, bright and clean dust jacket with only modest edge-wear. An excellent copy. "'I HAVE TO DO WITH ENGLAND,' SAID FATHER BROWN, 'I COME FROM THERE. AND THE FUNNIEST THING... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1985. Octavo (8 3/8 inches tall), original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. Fine copy of this definitive translation of the Roman Catechism, revised and thoroughly updated to reflect the constitutions and declarations of the Second Vatican Council. A Catechism was first mandated by the... More
Harrison, New York: Roman Catholic Books. Later edition. Small octavo (7 3/4 inches tall), original laminated pictorial boards. Ex-library, sticker removed from foot of spine, small ink-stamps to title page and page 29, embossed blindstamp to corner blank flyleaf, black ink to front and rear pastedowns and page 129, else... More
London: Sheed and Ward/SPCK, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint wear to the edges of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "COR AD COR LOQUITOR" First book edition of the addresses given at the first Oxford Newman Symposium, held in John Henry Newman's old... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of The Little Flower, 1932. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original brown and black cloth lettered in silver. Very gentle wear to the front board. About-fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS AND THESE TOO MANY OF... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth stamped in gold and silver. Lower corner bumped, previous owner marks to endpapers inked over in black, bright cloth boards and dust jacket with only very gentle wear to corners and spine ends. An excellent... More
New York: 1965. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth and blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to boards, shallow indent to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "NOW SHE RESTS WELL AT NIGHT AND HER GOOD LOOKS HAVE MOSTLY RETURNED" First edition of a.... More
London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1975. Early printing. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Clipped front flap of dust jacket. About-fine. "I AM WRITING NOT THEOLOGY BUT METHOD IN THEOLOGY" Early British printing of the American Jesuit's integration of theology with hermeneutics and critical history. Bernard Lonergan's Insight: A.... More
Dickinson, Texas: The Angelus Press, 1985. Octavo pamphlet, original stapled pictorial wrappers. Gentle crease to rear corner of bright, clean original wrappers. Nearly-fine. AD ORIENTEM ("TOWARD THE EAST") Second printing of Michael Davies' affirmation of the traditional Roman liturgy, enlarged to assert that "no legal barrier exists, or has existed... More
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1916. Small single volume (6 inches tall), original dark green pebbled leatherette, gilt spine title, blind-stamped hinge-straps, rounded corners, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Small ordination inscription (dated 1935) on blank flyleaf, occasional crease or wrinkle to thin paper leaves, small abrasions... More
Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1941. First edition. Folio (13 inches tall), original half burlap over green paper boards with mounted illustration, original dust jacket. Light spotting to excellent dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE OLD MUSIC REMAINS, TO BE SUNG AGAIN WITH REVERENCE, AND TO TOUCH OUR MATTER-OF-FACT LIVES... More
London: Burns Oates, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, navy top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to front flyleaf, mild creasing to spine ends and two short closed tears to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MODERN GHOST, AND ESPECIALLY THE TYPE THAT FREQUENTS OLD COUNTRY... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1961. First edition thus. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. A bright, about-fine copy. "THUS JESUS CHRIST, WHO DOETH GOOD AGAINST EVIL, IS OUR VERY MOTHER" Superb "Orchard Books" edition of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, a new translation of... More
London: Burns & Oates. 16mo, original flexible black leatherette boards, original gold foil dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket, owner signature, neat pencil and ink underlining and pencil notes throughout, else a near-fine example in a price-clipped dust jacket. "THEN WILL HE SEND OUT A BEAM OF GHOSTLY LIGHT, PIERCING THIS... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. Tall octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Top rear corner slightly bumped, short crease to inner front flap of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "LET US LEAVE THE SURFACE AND, WITHOUT LEAVING THE WORLD, PLUNGE INTO GOD" Early American... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small owner label to corner of blank flyleaf, blank pocket on rear flyleaf, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, slight toning and creasing to spine of bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "IT IS... More
Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original light green cloth, original dust jacket. Only minor creasing and wear to spine ends of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE TRADITIONAL GREGORIAN CHANT, USED BY PRIEST, CHOIR AND PEOPLE, OCCUPIES THE FIRST PLACE IN CHURCH MUSIC" First English translation... More
