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 CLASS..... 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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1948. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original teal cloth, spine and front board stamped in black, original dust jacket. A nearly fine book, modest edge-wear to unclipped original jacket. "DEDICATED TO MY RACIAL ANCESTORS, WHO THROUGH THEIR SUFFERING HAVE LEFT US SO VALUABLE..... More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1949. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 inches tall), staple-bound in original buff paper wrappers. Slight edge-wear, mild toning to wrappers. A nearly fine copy. "IT IS A WOMAN'S BOOK, AND I MAY REPEAT MYSELF TO BE HEARD BUT MOTHERS ALWAYS DO THAT TO BE HEARD"..... 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
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 of Representatives in..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original maroon cloth over blue paper boards. Book fine, minor edge-wear to unclipped dust jacket. About Fine. "A DEFINITIVE, IN-DEPTH ACCOUNT OF MOTHER TERESA'S LIFE AND WORK" First edition of Eileen Egan's intimate portrait of..... 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
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New York: The Thistle Press, 1954-1955. Two volumes. Portfolio (17 1/2 by 12 5/8 inches), original loose plates printed on laid paper, eight prints in each portfolio, original printed thick card wrappers. About Fine. "A NEW STRENGTH AND MEANING TO OUR CONCEPTION OF RELIGIOUS ART" Rare Thistle Press fine-arts..... 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 lay Catholics..... 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
London: Catholic Truth Society, 1963. Revised edition. Octavo, staplebound in original yellow wrappers. Backed in cardboard and housed loose in a protective clear plastic sleeve. Fine. "MOTHER AND TEACHER OF ALL NATIONS--SUCH IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE MIND OF HER FOUNDER, JESUS CHRIST" Revised translated edition of John XXIII's..... 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 label, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label. Near-fine book in a dust jacket with minor edge-wear, chipping, closed tears, and small smudges to bottom of front and back panels. Very good indeed. "NOTHING WILL..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1939. First edition. Tall octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), original maroon cloth, green and white printed paper label to front board, uncut, original dust jacket. Slight wear and soiling to price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly fine copy. "MEN VIE WITH EACH OTHER TO HOUND..... More
New York: Seabury Press, 1964. Octavo, original brick cloth, original dust jacket. Modest toning, closed tear to rear panel of unclipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE DESIRE FOR UNITY HAS HAUNTED ME ALL MY DAYS" Toward the Recovery of Unity, selected passages from the Letters of Frederick Denison Maurice—a fine..... More
London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, small chip, slight toning to spine of price-clipped bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH..... More
London: William Pickering, 1842. First edition. Small octavo (6 5/8 inches tall), contemporary rose-colored pebble-grain morocco, gilt spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Two pages with offsetting from laid-in item, contents otherwise clean; joints and extremities slightly rubbed, spine toned. Near-fine. "HAVING ADDED TO PROBITY WISDOM, AND TO..... More
Bread and Puppet, 1984. Stapled in original white wrappers (5 1/2 inches tall), printed in black on both sides, 16 pages. About Fine. "IN THE NAME OF THIS SUFFERING PEOPLE...I BEG YOU, I IMPLORE YOU, I ORDER YOU...STOP THE REPRESSION" First edition of Bread and Puppet's Oscar Romero of..... More
Menlo Park, California: Layman's Press, 1963. Quarto (8 1/2 by 11 inches), original orange photographic wrappers, lettered in white, 96 pages. Fine. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THOMAS MERTON'S "LETTERS TO A WHITE LIBERAL" First edition of The Negro and the White Conscience, a pivotal issue of the early—Catholic—incarnation of..... More
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. Octavo (8 inches tall), original textured white paper wrappers. Plough Book Service sticker inside front wrapper, very gentle bumping and creasing to wrappers, else about Fine. "THE VIOLENCE WE PREACH IS NOT THE VIOLENCE OF THE SWORD, THE VIOLENCE OF HATRED. IT IS..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1921. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt title to front board, blind-stamped title to spine, uncut, original printed dust jacket. Last two leaves unopened, upper front corner bumped, slight spine toning, gentle edge-wear, chip to inner front flap. A near-fine copy. "A HARMONY BETWEEN..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, stamped in green with gilt titles, uncut, original dust jacket. Small loss to ends of toned spine, slight soiling and edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "WITHIN A FEW DAYS ALL THAT REMAINED ALIVE AND..... More