Garden City: Image Books, 1965. First edition thus. 12mo, original paper wrappers. Fine. "THE SITUATION OF THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD" Handsome paperback edition of this collection of Jacques Maritain's essays on the temporal mission of the Christian, edited by Joseph W. Evans and Leo R. Ward of the University... More
New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, gentle toning to upper edges, small chip to top front panel of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "MY UNDERSTANDING OF CAPITALISM IS QUITE DIFFERENT" First edition of this attempt to integrate... More
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to rear upper corner and base of the spine. A near-fine copy. First American edition of this composite biography, a mythologizing celebration of the four Knox Brothers, published in the same year... More
Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, faint wrinkling to pack panel, very gentle toning to spine of dust jacket. An excellent copy. "CATHOLICS WERE INDEED ROMAN IN THEIR TRADITION, RITUALISTIC IN THEIR DEVOTION, AND ETERNALLY BOUND TO... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original teal paper boards over gray cloth spine, original dust jacket. Gentle fade to the upper margins of blue boards, in an excellent dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. First American edition of E. F. Schumacher's "spiritual map," a further development of... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition. Folio, original blue cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. "THE INTERACTION OF BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST DURING THE PERIOD OF THEIR CLOSEST CONTACT" First edition of this catalogue surveying the illuminated miniatures produced in the Crusader Kingdoms in the Holy Land during the twelfth... More
St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1970. First edition. Small folio, original red cloth, photographic pastedowns, original dust jacket. Early owner signature. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket with closed tears, mild rubbing and a toned spine with chip and creasing. "THUS IT AROSE THAT, IN AGE... More
Paterson: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth, decorated endpapers, original dust jacket. Clipped dust jacket, else fine. "THE SUMMIT OF ACHIEVEMENT OF FRANCISCAN SCHOLASTICISM" First edition of this translation of the French Franciscan's introduction to the mystical theology of The Seraphic Doctor. Bonaventure was a.... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal grey cloth, original dust jacket. Slight creasing to upper front panel of the dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE FRANCISCAN BASILICA AT ASSISI IS MORE THAN THE SHRINE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF MEDIEVAL SAINTS: IT IS NO LESS THE CRADLE... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. First edition. 12mo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Owner signature to top of free front endpaper, near-fine book with only minor edge-wear, small tape stain to the verso of the half title, clipped dust jacket with Oxford University Press price sticker to bottom of... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First edition. Octavo, original lavender cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. About-fine. "I CONDEMN POVERTY AND I ADVOCATE IT; POVERTY IS SIMPLE AND COMPLEX AT ONCE" First edition of the history of the Catholic Worker Movement, lending Dorothy Day's unique eyewitness to the emerging dialogue... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1907. Four volumes bound in three. Folio, uniform early brown cloth, black morocco spine labels. Bookplates. Minor edge-wear to sturdy cloth bindings. Near-fine. "CHRISTIAN ART HAS BEEN FOR CENTURIES MISUNDERSTOOD AND UNDERVALUED" Rare complete run of this abundantly illustrated periodical devoted to the arts and architecture... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), gray paper boards over cloth spine, gilt morocco spine label, uncut. Bookplate. Corners gently bumped, partially unopened, edge wear to label and mild stains to spine. Very good indeed. "I HAVE SEEN DANTE'S TOMB, AND WORSHIPPED... More
Paterson: St. Anthony Guild Press. Early edition. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth, decorated endpapers, original dust jacket. Shadow of glue stains to endpaper gutters, minor chipping and creasing to top corners of dust jacket. "ST. BONAVENTURE'S DOCTRINE MARKS FOR US THE CULMINATING POINT OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM AND CONSTITUTES THE COMPLETEST SYNTHESIS... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "CULTURE CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY CONSCIOUS--THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO IT THAN WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF; AND IT CANNOT BE PLANNED BECAUSE IT IS ALSO THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND OF ALL OUR PLANNING" First American edition, published... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1936. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to the edges of the dust jacket. About-fine. "I DID NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEANT BY LIBERTY, UNTIL I HEARD IT CALLED BY THE NEW NAME OF HUMAN DIGNITY. IT WAS A.... More
London and New York: Collins' Clear-Type Press, circa 1950s. Later edition. Small quarto. Original blue cloth, navy ribbon marker, all edges blue, original pictorial dust jacket. A fine book with some bubbling to the front panel of the price-clipped dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "YOU WILL FIND A NEW LINE OF ILLUSTRATION... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, black foil spine label, gold foil dust jacket. About-fine book with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor creasing. "LOYOLA HAD TAUGHT THEM: THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOTHING, THE MOVEMENT ALL. THE CHRISTIAN DEPARTS WITHOUT CONSOLATION. LIFE GOES ON"First... More
London: Methuen, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, navy top edge, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Nearly-fine book with toning to back panel of price-clipped dust jacket. "THE THING THAT THE MODERN READER AND CRITIC FIND SO DIFFICULT, WHEN CONFRONTED BY A GREAT POET, IS TO ACCEPT HIM" First edition... More
New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Minor chipping and creasing to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN" First American edition of C. C. Martindale's close study of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, published in the... More
New York: Duffield and Company, 1907. First edition thus. Small thin octavo, original decorated paper boards over black cloth spine, uncut. Very modest edge-wear to boards. Nearly-fine. "PRAISE BE TO THEE, O LORD, FOR OUR MOTHER THE EARTH" Charming 1907 rendition of The Canticle of the Sun. The years preceding... More
Baltimore and Dublin: Helicon, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original pale red cloth, original dust jacket. Small address label to corner of free endpaper, mildest of edge-wear, soiling and toning to dust jacket. A lovely copy. "IN SAYING 'COR JESUS,' WE ARE TOUCHING ON THE DEEPEST AND NOBLEST MARK OF HUMAN... More
London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1944. 12mo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Creasing to the front panel of original dust wrapper. An excellent copy. "LET US BE PRECISE; WHEN I TALK ABOUT TRANSLATING, I MEAN TRANSLATING THE VULGATE" Unusual "Trial Edition" of Ronald Knox's controversial, long-delayed translation of the... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal/black cloth. Faint toning to front and back panels, tiny closed tears and creasing to upper edges of dust jacket. A nearly-fine book in a near-fine, priced-clipped jacket. "MARY IS EVERYWHERE NOW" First edition of this lyrical photo-essay on the Marian shrine... More
Westminster: Newman, 1957. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth, original dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, closed tears and toning to spine and upper front panel, tape repairs to verso of dust jacket. Neat and clean, a very good copy. First American edition, published in the same year as the... More