New York: The Bruce Publishing Company/London: Collier-Macmillan, Limited, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Early price-sticker to 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 HIGH PUBLIC OFFICES"..... More
London: 1915. Small quarto (8 3/4 inches tall), original green cloth, gilt spine and pictorial front board, uncut. Occasional light foxing, slight toning to spine, corners sharp, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. "THE RUSSIAN NATION HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY DESCRIBED AS THE MOST RELIGIOUS IN CHRISTENDOM" First edition of this..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner gently bumped, mild edge-wear, small closed tear to front to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST AND THE WEST HAVE AN AFFINITY BETWEEN THEM THAT GOES MUCH..... 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
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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
Westminster: The Council for Defense of Church Principles, [1943]. First edition. Staple-bound (7 1/4 inches tall) in original printed brown wrappers. Fine. "I AM WRITING AS AN ANGLICAN LAYMAN TO THE LAITY" First edition of T.S. Eliot's argument against a proposed plan to unite the Anglican dioceses in South India..... More
New York: Paulist Press, 1988. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Pencil note to front pastedown: "inscribed to Fr. David Bromfield, professor at CUA." Book about-fine with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor edge-wear to upper corners and spine. First edition of this critical edition of..... 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: Random House, 1966. First edition. Four volumes (3.75 inches tall), original purple cloth, original paper slipcase. Books fine. Only minor scuffing to scarce original paper slipcase. A near-fine copy. "GOOD POPE JOHN" First edition of this miniature set, featuring eulogies of Pope John XXIII by Queen Elizabeth, Nikita..... More
St. Louis: Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, [1948]. Staple-bound in original wrappers (7 1/2 inches tall), illustrated front panel, blank back panel. A near-fine copy. "WE CATHOLICS WANT OUR NON-CATHOLIC FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TO KNOW US AS WE REALLY ARE" Knights of Columbus pamphlet presenting the Catholic perspective..... More
Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1914. First edition. Original pale green pictorial wrappers printed in dark green, text (8 1/2 inches tall) stitched in long overlapping wrappers (9 1/2 inches tall). Modest creasing to text and wrappers but no chipping or tearing. A crisp, clean copy in near-fine condition..... 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
New York: New City Press, 1969. First edition. Small octavo (7 1/4 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Faint crease to bottom of front panel, slight toning to back panel of dust jacket. About-Fine. "JESUS, IN OUR MIDST" First edition of Chiara Lubich's history..... 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
New York: New Directions, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original white cloth, lettered and decorated in black, original dust jacket. Book fine, minor creasing and closed tears, tape repair to verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine. "TAO IS GREAT IN ALL THINGS, COMPLETE IN ALL, UNIVERSAL IN ALL, WHOLE IN..... More
Oxford and London: John Henry Parker/F. and J. Rivington, 1845-1881. Collected edition. Forty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter vellum, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing to endpapers but text generally quite clean, occasional mild soiling to bright vellum bindings, one volume with expert repair to corner. Sturdy, neat, and clean..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1966. Octavo. original pink cloth, spine lettered in black, original dust jacket. An about-fine copy. "'SEPARATED BRETHREN'...EXPRESSES THE UNITY THAT REMAINS AS WELL AS THE TRAGEDY OF DIVISION" First American edition of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger's essay on the "Problem of Christian Brotherhood"—an..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963-1966. Mixed editions. Four volumes. Octavo, original brick red cloth, gilt spines, illustrated endpapers, yellow top edges, uncut, original photographic dust jackets. Very slight edge-wear to original dust jackets: A near-fine set. "HISTORY MARCHES ON. THE CHURCH IS OBLIGATED TO A REALISTIC VIEW OF..... More
London: Collins, 1981. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Minor creasing to inner front flap of jacket. A fine copy. "EVERY PERSON'S CONCEPTION OF GOD IS TOO SMALL. THROUGH HUMILITY WE CAN BEGIN TO GET INTO TRUE PERSPECTIVE THE INFINITY OF GOD. THIS IS THE HUMBLE APPROACH" First..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A near-fine book with a closed tear, minor soiling and slight toning to the spine of the clean and bright yellow and white dust jacket. "MAN IS TENDING MORE AND MORE TO THROW..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original navy cloth, silver spine, original dust jacket. Fine. "This new edition of his poems, edited and annotated by Dylan Thomas expert John Goodby, commemorates the centenary of Thomas's birth. With recently discovered material and accessible critique, it looks..... More