The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, [1966]. Original photographic card wrappers (7 3/4 inches tall). About Fine. "JESUS HAS TRIUMPHED OVER DEATH, AND WE MUST BE LOOKING TO HIM IN HIS TRIUMPHANT GLORY" First edition of Look to the Glory—an anthology of Richard Meux Benson—edited for the consideration..... 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
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
Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1956. First edition. Large octavo, original oatmeal cloth, original dust jacket. Mild soiling to cloth boards, minor creasing to top edges of clipped bright, clean dust jacket. Very good indeed. "A GROWING INTEREST IN THE PART THAT THE CHURCH HAS PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY" First edition of..... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. Octavo, black cloth, gray boards, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, closed tear to back panel, gentle crease to rear inner flap of clean, unclipped dust jacket. A bright, near-fine copy. "WHY IS GOD CONTINUALLY SILENT WHILE THOSE GROANING VOICES GO ON?" First..... 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
San Francisco: Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards with printed paper labels, uncut, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Fine book partially unopened, early owner signature, modest creasing to top margins of slightly toned dust jacket. About-fine. "THE CHARACTER..... More
San Marino: The Huntngton Library. Large octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplates, penciled call number to blank flyleaf, neat tape reinforcement to verso of unclipped jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "NOW LET US CALL THE ROLL OF FAMOUS MEN THAT WERE OUR FATHERS LONG AGO" (ECCLESIASTES) First edition of..... 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
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
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY..... 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
Cambridge: At The University Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket, bookplate and early owner signature, a fine book in a clipped dust jacket with faint toning, spotting and tape-repairs to the verso. A near-fine copy. "DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT BOOKS AND KNOWLEDGE BUT..... More
London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. "AFTER JESUS, PAUL IS THE KEY FIGURE IN THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN STORY" First edition of this extended dialogue on St. Pual between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler. Based on the five-episode BBC Television..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1927. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Early owner signatures, gentle offsetting to endpapers, slight toning to jacket spine. A nearly-fine copy. "FROM THE AGE OF THREE I HAVE NEVER REFUSED OUR GOOD GOD..... More