London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1954]. Early edition. 12mo., original patterned red cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with early owner signature, whisper of tanning to front flyleaf, front jacket flap torn with loss, spine faded, slight edge-wear. Very good indeed. "HIS FIGURE STANDS ON A SORT OF BRIDGECONNECTING MY BOYHOOD... More about St. Francis of Assisi
New York: Pocket Books, 1943. Early printing. Small octavo, perfect-bound paperback in original illustrated wrappers, all edges red. Text tanned but clean, rear wrapper bumped, minor edge-wear. Very good indeed. Second World War printing of Chesterton's Father Brown stories, with the original wrapper illustrated by Leo Manso. G.K. Chesterton was... More about The Pocket Book of Father Brown
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1916. First edition. Small octavo, disbound, conjugate frontispiece and title-page, retaining deckle-edges, each leaf measuring 7 3/8 inches tall. Original tissue-guard professionally removed, housed in a custom black double-window mat, measuring 9 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches. Fine. "THEY SAILED FORTH IN... More about S. Brendan the Voyager and His Mythic Quest
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1931. First American edition. Folio (13 1/2 inches tall), original brown gilt cloth boards, paper portfolio with 28 loose prints, separate text perfect bound in stiff paper wrappers. Cloth boards, paper portfolio and prints, wrappered text, all complete, clean and about-fine. "ST... More about Giotto — The Legend of St. Francis as Depicted in the Assisi Frescoes
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First edition. Original stiff card sheet (11 1/2 by 8 inches) folded into three panels. A nearly-fine copy with some gentle spotting and finger-soiling to blank rear panel. "WHY SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? / THE LORD IS RISEN, AS HE SAID" First edition of... More about The Story of Adam and Christ; The verses written by Dorothy L. Sayers - The window painted by...
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with a trace of edge-wear and typical toning to top of front panel, spine and flap folds. An excellent copy of a scarce book. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL... More about After Virtue; A Study in Moral Theory
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to cloth edges, dust jacket nicked at top of front panel. A near-fine copy. "THE WHOLE FUTURE OF THE EARTH, AS OF RELIGION, SEEMS TO ME TO DEPEND ON THE AWAKENING... More about The Future of Man
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original red paper boards, black cloth spine, original dust jacket. Very gentle shelf wear to spine ends, jacket price-clipped dust jacket clean and bright. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CHURCH DELIVERS US FROM OURSELVES BY PUBLIC WORSHIP" First edition of Thomas... More about Seasons of Celebration; Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition. Square octavo (8 3/4 inches), black cloth spine, original gray paper boards, maroon endpapers, gift inscription to front flyleaf, minor wear to spine ends and front corner, spot of tape residue, closed abraided tear and crease to bottom of front panel, small... More about A Spectacle unto the World; The Catholic Worker Movement
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, dark red top edge, original dust jacket. Small owner inkstamp to front flyleaf, bump to top fore-edge, gentle toning to spine of bright, clean dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPANISH SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY FLOWERED SUDDENLY, AS THOUGH A.... More about Medieval Mystical Tradition and Saint John of the Cross
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd, 1932. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original beveled gilt black cloth, red top edge. Bookplate. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Penciled initials (dated 1934), faint tanning to blank flyleaves, gilt bright, corners sharp, small puckered spot to upper front... More about The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described
London: Burns Oates, 1952. Early edition. Small octavo, original green cloth, dark top edge, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Very faint pencil marks to the margins of the preface, toning to folds and spine of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "HEARKEN MY SON TO THE PRECEPTS OF THE MASTER... More about The Rule of Saint Benedict; In Latin and English
London: Sheed & Ward, [1927]. First edition. 12mo. (7 1/8 inches tall), modern full crushed chocolate brown morocco, tan flyleaves, four ribbon markers, bindery ticket. Sporadic faint spotting to text, binding fine. "SCRIPTURE IS BEST EXPLAINED WITH SCRIPTURE" (ST. BERNARD) First edition of this explanatory edition of the 1582 Rheims... More about The Layman's New Testament; Being the Rheims Text as First Revised by Bishop Challoner
London: Burns & Oates, 1963. 16mo. (6 3/4 inches tall), rounded black leatherette boards, all edges red, original gold foil dust jacket. Bright boards fine, shallow crease and gentlest edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "A COMPENDIUM OF SPIRITUALITY WHICH IS UNIQUE IN THE ANNALS OF CHRISTIAN ASCETIC... More about The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint toning to spine and front panel of bright, clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "AGAPE LIES AT THE HEART OF ALL BEING" First edition of Frederick Wilhelmsen's engaging attempt to comprehend the meaning of... More about The Metaphysics of Love
London: The Harvill Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight spine lean of nearly-fine book, light toning to flap folds and spine. A excellent copy. "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY OF GOD WHAT HE IS" First edition of the English Dominican's meditations on God's... More about God the Unknown; And other Essays
Dubuque, Iowa: The Priory Press, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original gold [mustard] cloth, original dust jacket. Fine book, dust jacket with only very gentle toning to spine and flap folds. A nearly-fine copy. THOMISM: THE EARLY DISCIPLES OF THE ANGELIC DOCTOR First edition of this "bio-bibliographical" study of the early... More about Early Thomistic School
Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds, 1953. Early edition. Octavo, original lime green cloth, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown of about-fine book, gentle creasing and wear to spine ends, top edges, and corners of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "NOTHING SAVE THYSELF, LORD" Early edition of Fr. Martin... More about Saint Thomas Aquinas
Bruxellis: Apud Ant. Collaer Bibliopolam, 1778. Second edition. Thin quarto (11 inches tall), twentieth-century full crushed tan morocco, front board decorated in blind with cathedral-style motif, with twin inlaid circular morocco window panes, gilt stamped signature on rear pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Binding and plates... More about Vita D. Thomae Aqvinatis; Othonis Vaeni Ingenio et Manu Delineata
London: Burns, Oates & Washborne, Ltd., 1924. Octavo, original cord-bound illustrated wrappers, front wrapper ruled in green, mounted photographic portrait, Newman's facsimile signature, gilt stars and embossed colored arms, cord-bound. Creasing to lower right corner, bump at base of spine, blank back wrapper clean. Very good indeed. "COR AD COR... More about John Henry Newman: Portraits
Boston: David Godine, 1971. Limited edition. Tall thin octavo (10 1/2 inches tall), original decorated paper boards, original printed paper label. About-fine. "NOW BURN, NEW BORN TO THE WORLD, / DOUBLE-NATURED NAME, / THE HEAVEN-FLUNG, HEART FLESHED, MAIDEN-FURLED / MIRACLE-IN-MARY-OF-FLAME" Elegant limited edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's feverish lament for... More about The Wreck of the Deutschland
London: Faber and Faber, 1941. First edition. Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle bumping to lower edges of bright cloth boards, price-clipped dust jacket with toning to top of front panel, clean loss to head of toned spine. Very good indeed. "THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH WAS THEN, AND ALWAYS... More about Witchcraft
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. First edition. Square quarto (12 1/2 inches), original brown cloth gilt, original printed cardboard slipcase. Gentle wrinkling to blank flyleaves, boards bright, corners sharp, very minor wear to original slipcase. A near-fine copy. THE LEGENDARIUM OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN First American edition of this album collecting... More about Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942. Early edition. 12mo. (7 5/8 inches tall) original red cloth, lettered in black, small owner signature (dated November 1942) on front flyleaf, very gentle wear to corners and spine head, slight toning to spine of bright cloth boards. Very good indeed. "I TELL... More about The Ballad of the White Horse
circa 1950. Folio leaf, measuring at least 14 by 9 inches, white cardboard mat, early wooden frame, overall measuring 18 1/2 by 13 inches. Horizontal folded crease, not affecting portrait, to lower margin. THE HEAD OF G.K. CHESTERTON: "THE ORACLE OF OUR YOUTH" Large original portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton... More about Illustrated Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton