Peiping: 1937. Original soft orange cloth (7 7/8 inches tall) wrappers over stiff card, lettered in black. Faint cup ring, minor creasing, modest wear to corners and fraying to edges of original cloth. Very good indeed, now housed in a custom clamshell box. "CHRISTIANITY IS NOTHING MORE NOR LESS THAN..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Limited edition. Octavo, original red parchment, gilt spine and front panel, original red ribbon ties, top edge gilt. Bookplate. About-Fine. "AH! DEAR LORD / MIGHT I SO BEAUTIFY THY WORD!" Edition de Luxe of Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book—a limited edition..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and Published by Douglas Pepler, 1918. Second edition. 16mo (5 1/2 inches tall), sewn in original printed wrappers, uncut. Curling to long bottom edges, partially unopened, interiors clean, several leaves crudely opened with marginal creasing and chipping but not affecting plates or text. Overall a near-fine copy..... 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 scuffing to front board but about-Fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS, AND THESE TOO MANY OF..... More
Capel-Y-Fin: Francis Walterson, 1928. Limited edition. 12 mo. (7 7/8 inches tall), original blue paper boards, gilt black cloth spine, uncut. Bookplate and ink inscription. Interiors fine, minor toning to boards, lower corner bumped. Very good indeed. "MARRIAGE IS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD" Limited edition of two sermons..... More
[Plymouth, Indiana]: n.p., [1951]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original stiff textured illustrated wrappers. Early owner signature (dated April 1952), A nearly-fine copy. "THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER" First edition of this privately printed guide to the steps to Priestly Ordination--—complete with an evocative illustration to the..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. Second impression. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall) original red cloth, blind-stamped front board, gilt spine. Modest tanning to blank flyleaves, minor foxing to edges and early leaves, slight toning to spine, corners sharp, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. "IT IS ONLY IN THE..... More
1927: J.H. Hansen, Cleveland, Ohio. Later edition. Two volumes. Porfolio (12 1/8 inches tall), loose plates encased in original chemises of printed paper boards over brown three-quarter cloth spines, original ribbon ties. Plates clean, ties largely perished, minor toning and slight creasing to fore-edge of volume I title page, mild..... More
Atlanta: E.S.C.R.U., [c.1962]. Broadside poster (22 by 17 inches), printed in two colors. Folded in quarters with vertical and horizontal creasing, else Fine. "BEHOLD, HOW GOOD AND JOYFUL A THING IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY!" Large Civil Rights poster—illustrated by Ade Bethune—for the Episcopal Society..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1926. Limited edition. Folio (12 1/8 inches tall), original illustrated paper boards, gray cloth spine, uncut, original dust wrapper. Very minor edge-wear to boards and wrapper. About-Fine. "MAIDEN MOST MEEK AND HEAVENLY QUEEN / ROSES, LO, I HAVE CULLED FIFTEEN" Limited edition, one of only 100..... More
Published by the Dean and Chapter, 1948. Small quarto (8 3/4 inches tall, staple-bound in original illustrated wrapper. Gift inscription to a young chorister to half-title, gentle toning to edges, mild spotting to rear wrapper. A near-fine copy. "IN THE QUIRE OF CANTERBURY WE STAND IN THE 'HOLY OF HOLIES..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First edition. Tall thin octavo (9 3/8 inches tall), original gilt red cloth. Bookplate, slight offsetting to endpapers, faint bump to bright, sharp-cornered boards. A near-fine copy. "IN THE NUMBER OF HER SAINTS AND MYSTICS SPAIN STANDS UNRIVALED" First edition..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), original paper boards over brown cloth spine, top edge gilt, uncut, original paper board slipcase. Slipcase worn and split but intact. Fine. "THE HIVE OF SAINT THOMAS SHELTERED GOD AND MAN, MIND AND MATTER, THE..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1919. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine and front board, dark top edge. Faint tanning to prelimiaries, very short tear to inside rear hinge. A near-fine copy. "APART FROM HIS LITERARY SIGNIFICANCE AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF FRANCISCAN FEELING..... More
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, [1965]. Original green printed wrapper (6 inches tall), folded and printed in black, housing single printed leaf (5 by 3 1/8 inches), printed in black, red and green and tipped inside wrapper. Very faint toning to edges, sheet itself Fine. "THOU KNOWEST MY HEART LORD"... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1875. First edition. Original illustrated mustard cloth (5 5/8 inches tall) stamped in black, blank spine, all edges red. Early owner signature, mild tanning to blank endpapers. Very good indeed. "LEAVE NOT THE LAMBS OF CHRIST'S FOLD UNTAUGHT IN THE THINGS WHICH BELONG TO THEIR PEACE"..... More
London: S.P.C.K., 1961. Early printing. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall) original red cloth, gilt spine, red top edge, original dust jacket. Nearly fine in an unclipped dust jacket. "THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE BODY, NOT THE SUM, OF ALL THE FAITHFUL" Early printing of Martin Thornton's pastoral theology..... More
London: The Dropmore Press, 1949. Limited edition. Quarto (10 5/8 inches tall), original brick red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust wrapper, original buff card slipcase with printed paper spine label. Book Fine, light foxing and toning to dust wrapper, slipcase with..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Embossed blind-stamp to title page, price-clipped original dust jacket with modest wear. Very good indeed. "FATHER PAUL AND MOTHER LURANA WITH THEIR SPIRITUAL CHILDREN HAD TURNED THEIR FACES TO THE..... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Original paper boards (7 1/4 inches tall) printed in green, black spine with gilt title, uncut, original black textured paper cardboard slipcase. Faint tanning to blank flyleaves, else Fine. "EVERY FIELD PATH AND HEDGEROW BECAME AN ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS" Limited edition..... More
London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1944, 1949. Two volumes. New Testament: (6 3/4 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, mild foxing to edges, boards toned but gilt bright, corners sharp. Englishing: (7 1/2 inches tall), original green cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket..... More
Newport, Rhode Island: John Stevens, 1951. Fourth edition. Octavo (9 inches tall), staple-bound in original textured rose wrappers, printed on laid paper. Fine. "FOR NO ACTION IS WORTHLESS, AND THE FULLNESS OF GOD IS WORTHY TO BE GLORIFIED IN ALL THINGS" Limited mid-century edition of Ade Bethune's Work—an early..... More
London: Burns and Oates Limited, 1961-1966. Eight volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt and blind-stamped, original uniform dust jackets. A nearly-fine set. "NEO-PLATONISM WAS THE LAST BREATH, THE LAST FLOWER, OF ANCIENT PAGAN PHILOSOPHY; BUT IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. AUGUSTINE IT BECAME THE FIRST STAGE OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY"... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Ink stamped to base of front flap, mild toning to blank endpapers. A near-fine copy. "PHILOSOPHERS, FOR THE AVERAGE MAN, ARE AN OBJECT OF FUN" First edition of Donald Nicholl's first book—an introductory survey..... More
Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1985. Limited edition. Folio (11 inches tall), original illustrated gray paper boards, burgundy endpapers. Fine. "ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU STAND, O PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND?" Fine Press limited edition of John Henry Newman's Tract One—one of only 525 copies printed by The..... More