New York: The Bruce Publishing Company/London: Collier-Macmillan, Limited, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Early price-sticker to lower back panel of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "FOR THE FIRST TIME A LIVING POPE IS GIVEN THE SCRUTINY THAT IS NORMALLY RESERVED FOR THOSE IN..... 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: 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
London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Several short closed tears to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE RUMOUR THAT A BROTHER CHOLERIC MEMORIAL FUND HAS BEEN STARTED" First edition..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First edition. Octavo, original half gray cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Book with just a trace of shelf wear, minor edge wear, small chip to fore-edge, small tears to rear flap of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE GREATEST LIVING THINKERS" First edition of..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PREDICAMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAN" First edition of this study of the most prominent Existential thinkers with a special focus on Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel..... More
Denville, New Jersey: Dimension Books, Inc., 1969. First American edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Sporadic underlining in neat pencil, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. A near fine copy. 'DO NOT MAN'S WORDS FLOW OUT OF WHAT FILLS HIS HEART?" First edition of the French Dominican's..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, original dust jacket. Small adhesion to base of front board, tiny ink stamps to inner flap and blank flyleaf, tape-repairs and edge-wear to dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE REVERBERATION, EVEN AT THE OBLIQUE TOUCH OF A FINGERNAIL..... 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..... More
Summit, New Jersey: Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, 1967. Limited edition. Octavo, stitched in original red card wrappers printed in black, original folding card case, 12 pages. Small bump at base of spine, else Fine. "NOT BY SACRED ELOQUENCE DOES A NUN MOVE MOUNTAINS. FOR A DOMINICAN CONTEMPLATIVE..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1929. Small octavo (7 3/4 inches tall). Original decorated paper boards, blue top edge, uncut, original decorated dust wrapper. Faint tanning and offsetting to endpapers, gentle bumping to lower corners, dust wrapper toned and entirely split at spine. A near-fine copy. "MY PURPOSE HAS BEEN TO..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt spine, 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"... More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, touch of foxing to top edge, spine of dust jacket toned, pen slash through price on front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE RIGHTS OF MAN ON EARTH ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original tan cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Book fine, slight edge-wear, chip to upper rear panel of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "MAN IS A PERSON ONLY BECAUSE GOD'S LOVE FOR HIM IS SUCH AS IT IS" First edition in..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1947. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Unclipped dust jacket minor wear at corners, mild creasing to upper edges, some loss at top of the spine. Very good indeed. "THERE IS A LIKENESS, EVEN IN OUTWARD THINGS, BETWEEN UNCONQUERABLE LIFE..... 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
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: Sheed & Ward, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Only slightest of edge-wear to bright and fresh dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING BOOKS I HAVE READ IN YEARS" (THOMAS MERTON) First edition of Hans Küng's work..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1908. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. Minor spotting to spine, gilt bright, gentle wear to corners and spine ends, moderate soiling to top edge of text block. Very good indeed. "THE MODERNIST CONTROVERSY" First edition of..... More
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket spine toned to green, slight edge-wear and tiny abrasion to front panel. A nearly-fine copy. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL IS AS CONFIDENT IN THE MORAL..... More
New York: A New Directions Book, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, spine title stamped in white, original dust jacket. About Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. "OVER THE DOOR OF HELL IS WRITTEN: 'THEREFORE!'" First edition of Cables to the Ace—Thomas Merton's work of modern anti-poetry—an "animated mosaic..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original marron cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped front board, original dust jacket. About-Fine. "THE CATHOLIC FAITH IS NOT DETRIMENTAL TO THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE" First edition of this collection of the accomplishments of Catholics in psychology"—with..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over cloth spine, original dust jacket. Very minor wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "I NOW SEE THAT MY WORDS ARE NO MORE THAN THE WALLS THAT SURROUND A SILENT PLACE"..... More
Washington, D. C. Cistercian Publications/Consortium Press, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Small "St. Jos Abbey" price-sticker to bottom of front flap. Slight fading to edges of near-fine cloth, minor creasing and tears to spine ends of dust jacket. A near fine copy. "THE CONTEMPLATIVE ATTITUDE..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1956. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original cloth spine, marbled paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, small chip to upper rear upper panel of the excellent dust jacket. "CHURCH ART TODAY—AS AT ANY OTHER PERIOD—WORKS WITH THE FORMS, COLOURS AND MATERIALS OF..... More