Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Original black cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), gilt and blind-stamped spine and front board, original dust wrapper. Book fine, early owner signature, scarce original wrapper with loss of lower spine but unclipped and complete. An excellent copy. "MOST ENGLISHMEN ARE OUTSIDE THE PAPAL FOLD..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First Edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Neat clergyman's signature to blank flyleaf, very faint rippling to upper panel of unclipped dust jacket. About-Fine. "A SALVATION OF THE WORLD DOES EXIST" First American edition of the English translation Joseph Ratzinger's best-known book—in..... More
Oxford: Alden & Co. Ltd. / Bocardo Press, 1910. First Edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original navy cloth with gilt titles. Small ink presentation inscription, gilt bright, gutter cracked but still firm, very faint wear to spine ends and corners. A near-fine copy. "THE AZURE BINDING OF ETON..... More
London: Sheed and Ward, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Contemporary prayer card laid-in to fine book, minor edge-wear, short closed tears, modest loss top spine of bright and unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE RITES TRADITIONALLY CANONIZED BY THE CHURCH AS HER OWN PRAYER..... More
London: Society of SS. Peter & Paul, [1923], 1924. Two volumes. Original stiff black paper wrappers (5 inches tall) printed in cream, original postal envelope. Fine. "IT IS MY FEELING THAT THESE SONNETS BELONG TO ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH CHURCH" First and second British editions of these historical verses honoring the..... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1874. Original illustrated mustard cloth (5 5/8 inches tall), stamped in black, blank spine, all edges red. Mild tanning to endpapers. Very good indeed. "CHRIST COMMANDED THE CHILDREN TO BE BROUGHT UNTO HIM" Early printing of this popular illustrated Anglican liturgy for Victorian children—a lovely copy in..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1958. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original oatmeal cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine, bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to base of toned spine. Very good indeed. "WE MUST LOOK FOR CHRIST IN ONE ANOTHER" First edition..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (Bible Warehouse) Ltd., c.1905. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 inches tall), original gilt-stamped beveled black cloth, top edge gilt. Gilt bright, very minor wear to spine ends and corners. A bright, sharp-cornered copy. "AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE..... More
London: Faber & Gwyn Limited, 1927. First trade edition. Original yellow paper wrappers (7 1/4 inches tall) with inner flaps, original paper mailing envelope. Fine. "GLORY TO GOD IN THE LOWEST / THE SPOUT OF THE STARS IN SPATE— / WHERE THE THUNDERBOLT THINKS TO BE SLOWEST / AND THE..... More
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1924. Original black pebbled cloth (2 inches by 1 1/2 inches), gilt vignette, rounded corners, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine. "OUT OF THE DEPTHS I HAVE CRIED TO THEE, O LORD: LORD HEAR MY PRAYER" Lovely miniature illustrated prayer book—measuring only 2..... More
New York: Crossroad, 1985. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "THIS BOOK WILL MOST CERTAINLY BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO LOVE THE CHURCH WARTS AND ALL" First edition of Leonardo Boff's Church: Charism and Power—the first English translation of the Brazilian theologian's controversial prescription for renewal in..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943. Early printing. Original green paper wrappers (6 3/4 inches tall) lettered in black. Slight browning to interiors, gentle wear to toned spine ends, mild creasing and soiling to wrappers but still quite sound. A near-fine copy. "TRADITION MEANS GIVING VOTES TO THE MOST..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. Contemporary full crimson morocco (5 5/8 inches tall), gilt panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very faint toning to spine, else Fine. "THIS CHURCH IS FAR FROM INTENDING TO DEPART FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN ANY ESSENTIAL POINT OF DOCTRINE, DISCIPLINE, OR WORSHIP" Oxford..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1906. Quarto (11 inches tall), original illustrated stitched wrappers. Expert reinforcement to spine, modest soiling and toning, front corners worn, interiors quite clean, coloring bright. A near-fine copy. "MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE SAINTS, FOR THE SAINTS ARE GOD'S FRIENDS" Early edition of this exquisitely illustrated ABC—dedicating..... More
London: Samuel Gurney / The Society of SS Peter & Paul, 1914. First edition. Octavo (9 inches tall), stitched in original illustrated paper wrappers, contemporary gilt-stamped red cloth, bookplate. Slight soiling to wrappers. A near-fine copy. "NEVER, I WEEN / WAS A PROUDER SEEN, / READ OF IN BOOKS, OR..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: The Ditchling Press Ltd., 1952. Octavo, original gilt blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "WE LIVE IN THE SPEED AGE AND SO MUST SUFFER ACCORDINGLY...BUT WE CAN EXCLUDE FROM THE RUSH ONE SHELF IN THE ROOM, IF WE HAVE ONE, WHERE BOOKS ARE SOMETIMES TO BE ENJOYED IN..... More
London: Chatto and Windus: Publishers, 1908. Small quarto (6 3/8 inches tall), original blind-stamped brown pigskin, original hinge-strap metal clasps. Minor tanning to endpapers. About-fine. "RELIGION AND CHIVALRY JOINED HANDS" "BETHINK YOU, GENTLE LADY, OF YOUR VERY GREAT GRACE, TO GRANT A GOOD LIFE, AND A GOOD END TO ALL..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1957. First edition. Quarto, original navy cloth spine over light blue cloth boards, original dust jacket. Mild toning, slight edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THIS IS NOT A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO PAINTING, BUT, RATHER, A PICTORIAL APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY" First book edition collecting the 1955..... More
New York: R.H. Russell, 1902. Small folio (11 1/8 inches tall), original decorated paper boards. Expert reinforcement to spine, lacking original ties, moderate toning, mild edge-wear. A near-fine copy. "MY BELOVED IS MINE, AND I AM HIS" Limited edition of Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations for the Song of Songs—one of only 875..... More
London: C and J Rivington, 1823. Second edition. 12 mo. (7 3/4 inches tall), early pebbled brown morocco, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Binding sound, mild sporadic foxing, faint offsetting from illustrations, slight puckering to title page under pasted illustration. A nearly-fine copy. "YOU ARE BORN A...... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. Ninth edition. Original maroon cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), black coated endpapers. Clergyman's ex-libris pasted above half-title, gentle toning to spine, gutter cracked at page ?? touch of wear to spine ends and corners. Very good indeed. "SURELY THE MOST SERENE AND BEAUTIFUL VINDICATION..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1931. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray textured paper boards, gilt white parchment spine, uncut. Very faint toning to spine, partially unopened. About-Fine. "AN ALMOST ENDLESS NUMBER OF DELIGHTFUL BITS OF ORNAMENT, EACH DRAWN WITH AMAZING CERTAINTY OF LINE AND PRECISION OF..... More
New York: Random House, 1956. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original beige cloth with vignette to front, black spine label, beige endpapers, original dust jacket. Neat early owner signature, mild toning to edges and spine of unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WE PASS FROM ST. THOMAS'S..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First edition. Small quarto (9 inches tall), original mauve cloth, spine blocked in pale blue and silver, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, inner jacket flap price-clipped. A near-fine copy. "A CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT. SAINTS ARE NOT MADE BY ACCIDENT" First illustrated..... More
San Francisco: Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards with printed paper labels, uncut, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Fine book partially unopened, early owner signature, modest creasing to top margins of slightly toned dust jacket. About-fine. "THE CHARACTER..... More