Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, red endpapers, original dust jacket. Mild scuffing to front board, early owner signature to free front endpaper. A near fine copy. "THE MULTIPLYING PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE DISORDERS OF AN URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION THAT HAS FOUND EXPRESSION IN DEMORALIZING POVERTY AND..... More
London: Sheed and Ward, 1938. First British edition. Original green cloth (7 1/2 inches tall), original dust jacket. Early owner address label to blank flyleaf, mild toning to jacket spine of bright unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CATHOLIC WORKER BELIEVES IN THE GENTLE PERSONALISM OF TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM" First..... More
St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1986. Octavo, original stiff printed wrappers with photographs to front and back panels. Fine. "THE CHURCH IS AT THE SERVICE OF THE WORLD, AND OUGHT TO BRING GOD TO IT" First English translation of these extended conversations with Pedro Arrupe—the spiritual testament of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Slight toning to original jacket. A nearly fine copy. "WE ARE IMMEDIATELY, IF WE SEEK THE HIGHEST MEANING OF HISTORY, ON A THEOLOGICAL PLANE" First edition of Daniel Berrigan's second..... 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..... More
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1983. Second printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Mild bump to top corner, pale stain to top fore-edge of near-fine book, very good dust jacket with moderate edge-wear. Rare. "A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, SOBBING AND LOUDLY LAMENTING: IT WAS RACHEL..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1925. First edition. 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust wrapper printed in red. Faint spine toning, mild soiling along fore-edge of rare original wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "HE BELONGS TO ALL THE AGES EXCEPT PERHAPS..... 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
[Atlanta]: E.S.C.R.U., [1962]. Single sheet (10 by 15 inches), printed and illustrated on all sides, folded vertically in quarters then horizontally across lower margin of sheet. About-Fine. "SEWANEE NEEDS YOUR CRITICISM FOR IT BELONGS TO THE CHURCH" Scarce 1962 Civil Rights leaflet protesting segregation at Sewanee Divinity School—with 3 anguished..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "THE READER SHOULD NOT LOOK FOR THE WAR SONGS OF ONE GROUP OF CHRISTIANS WHICH WANTS TO TRIUMPH OVER OTHERS, BUT FOR A STORY OF FAITH ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY" First edition of this fine..... More
Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1985. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "A PILGRIMAGE OF CONSCIENCE" First edition of Drinan's collected "Writings and Addresses on Peace and Justice" with a Preface by President Jimmy Carter. Father Robert Drinan, S. J. was elected to the House..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards. Book fine. Minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of Eileen Egan's intimate portrait of Mother Teresa. In the original dust jacket with David Tamura's portrait. Eileen Egan was perhaps..... More
[New Haven]: Yale University Library/Arts of the Book Collection, 1985. Quarto (11 inches tall), original paper wrappers."Eichenberg" written in ink at the top of the blank spine. Fine. "MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CARRY IMAGES BY FRITZ EICHENBERG AROUND, EMBEDDED IN OUR PSYCHES" First edition of this handsome exhibition catalogue collecting 50..... More
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995. First edition. Oblong folio (11 1/8 by 14 1/8 inches), 12 loose prints, original folded paper wrappers with illustrations on both panels. Prints and wrappers Fine. POWERFUL WITNESS TO THE EVILS OF VIOLENCE, POVERTY AND RACISM Scarce first edition of this selection of 12..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original pale grey cloth lettered in yellow, original dust jacket. Book fine, gentle edge-wear, neat tape reinforcement to verso folds of price-clipped dust jacket. Still, a bright, clean, very good indeed copy. "POVERTY IN AMERICA FORMS A CULTURE, A WAY OF..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1917. First edition. Original brick cloth (7 3/8 inches tall), gilt spine and front board. Benziger bookmark laid-in. Very faint toning to spine. A nearly-fine copy. "TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST IS THE VOCATION OF EVERY CATHOLIC" First edition of this "practical solution" for..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to one corner. Tape repair to the verso of bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WE NEED A NAME FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE EARTH ON..... More
Washington D.C. Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1984. Octavo ( 8 7/8 inches tall), stapled in stiff pale green wrappers, printed in black. Slight toning to wrappers, else Fine. "THE DESIRE FOR LIBERATION FINDS A STRONG AND FRATERNAL ECHO IN THE HEART AND SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANS"... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth, original photographic dust jacket. Book gently bumped at top of spine, closed tear and gentle edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the rare dust jacket. "HOW STRONGLY DOES..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth with silver spine, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label. Near-fine book in jacket with minor edge-wear, chipping, closed tears, and small smudges to bottom of front and back panels. Very good indeed. "MOTHER, DEAR, NOTHING CAN EVER..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. First printing. Octavo, original brick cloth spine, paper boards, red top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to front pastedown, bookplate to free front endpaper, card pocket removed from rear pastedown. Dust jacket with edge-wear, closed tears, and chipping to spine. Very..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. Year of publication in ink at base of title page, slight toning to spine and creasing to inner flap rear panel of dust jacket. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket..... More
Chicago: Monastery Hill Bindery, 1968. need photos 1-4. Thin quarto (10 1/8 inches tall), original beige cloth stamped in blue and gold. About Fine. (New Testament) Dale Nichols. The Sermon on the Mount; Being the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters of the Gospels According to St. Matthew. Chicago: Monastery Hill..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Small ink stamps to front endpaper, verso of title page, Early owner signatures (one dated 4/22/55), owner ink-stamps to front endpaper and title page verso, minor wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy..... More