London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co., 1936. Original navy cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), gilt spine, original dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges and endpapers. A nearly fine copy. "THE LORD DOTH FEED ME : WANT CAN NE'ER BE MINE" Second impression of Richard Meux Benson's Colloquies and Prayers..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1946. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original gilt green cloth. Gilt bright, corners sharp, very small religious signature (dated January 1947) on blank flyleaf, four library inkstamps to front and back endpapers, else a crisp copy. FROM THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT "TO THE CATHOLIC COLLEGIANS..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine, russet endpapers, original dust jacket. Very slight bump to head of spine, else Fine. "PAIR-BONDING BETWEEN MALES WAS CONSIDERED THE NOBLEST FORM OF HUMAN CONTACT" Early British edition of John Boswell's final book—an..... More
London and Oxford: James Parker, 1870. First edition. Large folio (17 by 13 1/2 inches), original blind-stamped pebbled blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and both boards, all edges red. Very slight edge-wear, small abrasion to lower rear board, some cracking to interior text block but binding holding firm, corners..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. A fine copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. "THE CHURCH, THIS PERFECT SOCIETY, IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST" First edition of this collection..... More
Capel-Y-Fin: Francis Walterson, 1928. Limited edition. 12 mo. (7 7/8 inches tall), original blue paper boards, gilt black cloth spine, uncut. Bookplate and ink inscription. Interiors fine, minor toning to boards, lower corner bumped. Very good indeed. "MARRIAGE IS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD" Limited edition of two seventeenth-century sermons..... More
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, Limited, 1927. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), original orange cloth, spine and front board stamped in black, uncut. Oxford bookseller's ticket, owner signature, several instances of underlining and marginalia, foxing to edges, tiny nick to bottom of lightly toned spine..... More
Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1985. Limited edition. Folio (11 inches tall), original illustrated gray paper boards, burgundy endpapers. Fine. "ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU STAND, O PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND?" Fine Press limited edition of John Henry Newman's Tract One—one of only 525 copies printed by The..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. An about fine book in a bright, crisp dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "LIBERATION CAN BECOME A POSSIBILITY" First edition of this early work on pastoral theology by Henri J.M...... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951. First edition. Thin quarto (10 inches tall), original cream linen cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board, original photographic dust jacket. Book fine, modest chipping and soiling to scarce original photographic dust jacket. An excellent copy. "SO WE MAY SAY IN A TRUE SENSE..... More
London: Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1925. Original staple-bound pictorial green wrappers (6 inches tall). Gentle creasing and slight toning to illustrated wrappers, staples rusted but secure, text clean. Very good indeed. "CHRIST INVITES US TO A BANQUET PROVIDED FOR HIS FRIENDS, A SACRED BANQUET OF WHICH HE IS..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1929. First edition. Octavo, original paper boards over white cloth spine, original dust wrapper. Penciled convent inscription to blank flyleaf, scarce original wrapper has been reinforced on the verso and laminated. An excellent copy. "OF ALL GREAT HEARTS, THE GREATEST IS STILL THE HEART OF A...... More
New York: The Barry Vail Corporation, 1931. Limited edition. Quarto (12 1/2 inches tall), original three-quarter red crushed morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt, uncut. Partially unopened, very minor edge-wear and faint toning to top of front board. About Fine. "HOW GREAT IS THE DIGNITY OF CHASTE WEDLOCK..... More