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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1958. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE GLOW FROM THE HEAVENLY CITY, FAR FROM BLURRING THE EARTHLY CITY IN A HAZE, MAKES IT CLEAR AND REAL" First edition by the noted English Thomist tracing the development of medieval..... 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
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
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Thus. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction by..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970. Early printing. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Scratch to front cloth board, clean dust jacket with price sticker to inner flap, short closed tear to front panel, tiny abrasion to back panel. A near-fine copy. "THE THOMIST IDEAL IS A TIMELESS IDEAL. ITS ADAPTATION..... More
London: S.P.C.K., 1949. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, charcoal top edge, original dust jacket. Gentle spotting to book, mild spotting, creasing to the spine head of the price-clipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "ENGLAND IS STILL A PROFESSEDLY CHRISTIAN STATE, AND IT THE DUTY AND HIGH PRIVILEDGE OF THE CHURCH..... 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
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: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11.75 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Imperceptible wear to spine ends and corners. A beautiful copy. POPE JOHN XXIII'S "PACEM IN TERRIS" First edition of this elegant illustrated printing of Pope John XXIII's "Pacem in Terris," the dying pontiff's..... More
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New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, blue top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Chipping and creasing to spine ends and to the front panel of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "AS THE CHAMPION OF WHAT T.S. ELIOT CALLED 'THE PERMANENT THINGS', BURKE DID NOT..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Mild toning to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CONSERVATIVE, IN OUR TIME, MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE OF DON QUIXOTE" First edition of Russell Kirk's prescription for the defense of tradition—published by Henry..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original light brown cloth, original dust jacket. Faintest toning to dust jacket spine. About-fine. "IT IS THE DUTY OF THE SON TO COVER THE SHAME OF HIS FATHER; AND THE CATHOLIC OWES IT O THE CHURCH TO DEFEND HER AGAINST EVERY..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Modest edge-wear to bright, unclipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "MORE THAN EVER, FRANCE SEEMS LIKE A LIVING PERSON, PRECIOUS IN BODY AND SOUL, PRECIOUS TO THE WORLD" First edition of Jacques..... 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
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1960. First edition. Octavo, original half gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint inkstamp to free front endpaper, single sentence underlined in ink, very good dust jacket with mild edge-wear and a toned and chipped spine. Very good indeed. "THE AMERICAN PROPOSITION RESTS OF THE MORE..... 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
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: 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
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company Publishers, 1964. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt spine, decorated endpapers, original dust jacket. Slight toning to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "MATER, SI; MAGISTRA, NO" First edition of this early book by Garry Wills—a study of the political..... More
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New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1967. First edition. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with mild creasing to the foot of the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "MY SUBJECT IS WAR -- AND THE IMMORALITY OF WAR" First book edition of this collection..... More