London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), sewn in original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Ex-Franciscan library, partial bookplate on endpaper, very minor wear to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. "MARY'S SOUL IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN GOD'S CREATION" First edition of..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955]. Original pale blue cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), front board stamped with Chesterton's facsimile signature, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, tanning to endpapers, mild toning to boards, gentle creasing to price-clipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I SAY, AS DO ALL CHRISTIAN MEN..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First American edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, dated 1940, to blank flyleaf, very faint tanning to endpapers, gentle wear and spine toning to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY ONY BECOMES ACCEPTABLE AFTER YOU HAVE..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Worn along lower front edge of near-fine book, minor loss to spine head of mildly toned jacket. "WHAT WOULD HEAVEN BE WITHOUT GOD? WHAT WOULD HEAVEN BE WITHOUT THIS CHURCH?" Mid-century American edition of Karl Adam's influential..... More
London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1895. Octavo, original blue cloth. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, ex-seminary library: call numbers to spine, ink stamps, card pocket to rear endpaper, slight lean to spine, marginal spotting to text. A bright, sharp-cornered copy. Very good indeed. "A DEED OF..... More
New York and London: John Lane Company/The Bodley Head, 1909. First American edition. Octavo, original gilt red cloth. Early owner signature to free front endpaper, white speckling to base of front board, closed tears to head of faintly toned spine. A sharp-cornered, near-fine copy. "TRADITION MEANS GIVING VOTES TO THE..... More
Westminster, Maryland: Harper & Brothers, [1959]. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Mild staining to cloth boards but lettering still bright, slight toning to spine of clean and unclipped and jacket. Very good indeed. "ALONE, UNCONDITIONALLY ALONE IN THE WORLD TODAY, CHRISTIANITY SHOWS ITSELF ABLE TO RECONCILE, IN A...... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1945. Second edition. Original blind-and-gilt-stamped blue cloth (7 1/8 inches tall), original double-sided printed dust wrapper. Signature of early academic owner to blank flyleaf, gentle bump to corner of cloth, toning to spine and flaps, touch of wear to corners of original wrapper. A bright..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First American edition. Small thin quarto (8 inches tall), sewn in original black cloth stamped in yellow, uncut. Bookseller's ticket. Minor wear to head of gently toned spine, clean, sharp-cornered boards. Very good indeed. "GRACE TO THE MOTHER / FOR THE GARDEN / WHERE..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash, [1907]. FIrst edition. Small quarto (9 5/8 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Light offsetting to free endpapers, gentle crease to inner margin of title page, gutter cracked at p.32, minor edge-wear and spotting to boards. A splendid copy. "JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original lime green cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine, very slight edge-wear, minor chipping to spine ends of bright dust jacket. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW, WAS A LADY"..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Limited edition. Tall narrow octavo (9 inches tall), original gilt white cloth, uncut. Slight foxing to endpapers, mild toning and faint soiling to boards, gilt bright, corners sharp. A near-fine copy. "THE LORD'S PRAYER WE KNOW; BUT WHAT IS THE LORD'S SONG?" Limited edition..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1964. Original cream cloth (9 1/4 inches tall), original dust jacket. Modest bump to top front corner, very faint bump to top corner of the text block, mild tanning to endpapers. A near-fine copy. "JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS WILL TELL YOU BETTER THAN I"..... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. First edition. Original illustrated paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall), white gilt cloth spine. Gentle toning to rear board and spine, gilt still visible, inkstamps to front pastedown, colophon, and fore-edge. An excellent copy. "HOW IN THAT UPPER ROOM HE GAVE HIMSELF TO BE OUR..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1914. 12 mo. (7 inches tall), original gilt purple cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Gilt boards bright, early owner signature, slight browning to text, tanning to early and later leaves, crack to inner gutter but text and binding holding. Very good indeed. "THE SPUR..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, faint spotting to spine crisp, clean dust jacket. An excellent copy. "FOR MANY A LONG YEAR ENGLAND HAD NO CATHOLIC BISHOP" First edition of this history of the eighteenth-century Vicars Apostolic of England by..... More
Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1866. 16 mo. (6 3/8 inches tall), contemporary full brown pebbled morocco stamped in black, mounted brass cross and engraved clasp, two red silk ribbon markers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt over red. Scattered very light prior owner notations in pencil (mostly marking the..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint tanning to endpapers, price clipped dust jacket. About-fine. "NEVER DOES GOD GIVE FAITH, BUT HE TRIES IT, AND NONE WITHOUT FAITH CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" First edition of these sermons delivered..... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Albert Bender, 1939. Limited edition. Folio sheet (15 by 10 1/2 inches), printed on watermarked paper, folded once to make four pages. Title in black with printer's device on the front page, fore-and-bottom edges uncut, text in gilt and black with..... More
London: Novello and Company, Limited, 1900. Small folio (10 inches tall), original printed paper boards, gilt burgundy cloth spine. Minor edge-wear, slight spine lean, corners bumped, original price struck through on front board (with publisher's ink stamp) and title page. Original binding and text largely clean. "I AM NEAR TO..... More
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, n.d. 12 mo. (7 3/8 inches tall), contemporary full brown calf gilt, watered silk endpapers, ribbon marker, top edge gilt, uncut. Gentle wear to sound front joint, minor foxing to half title and title pages, intermittent spotting, plates clean. A handsome copy. "BROTHER WOLF..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1963. First edition. Octavo, original gilt-decorated black cloth, illustrated endpapers, red top edge, original dust jacket. About-fine in an unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends and a small abrasion. "HE STANDS THUS BEFORE THE WORLD, ARMS OPEN WIDE" First edition of..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1957. First edition. Small octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, photographic endpapers, red top edge. Dust jacket unclipped and unfaded with minor wear to corners and spine ends. Near-fine. "HE WHO HAS LEFT ALL MEN DWELLS IN THEM ALL BY THE CHARITY OF CHRIST"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. Limited edition. Quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards, gilt red morocco spine, original plain white paper dust wrapper titled in ink. Fine. "A VERY IMPORTANT STEP IN THE TRANSMISSION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE TO OUR TIME" Limited first edition..... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1933. 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original gilt blue cloth, gilt bright, slightest wear to sharp corners and spine ends, faint stain to centerfront board. A near-fine copy. 'WHAT MADE THE JESUITS THE SCHOOLMASTERS OF EUROPE WAS ORGANIZATION" First edition of this..... More