London: Burns & Oates, 1955. Folio (12 inches tall), original single bifolium of cream hammer-finished wove paper, printed in red and black on all four pages. Light toning and soiling, but overall an excellent copy. THE HIGH-WATER MARK OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLIC LITERARY REVIVAL Guest List and Menu for a...... 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

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1954. First edition. Large octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Cloth mottled but gilt bright, minor tanning to blank flyleaves, sporadic pencil marks throughout text, modest staining and toning to price-clipped dust jacket. A very good copy. "SOMEHOW..... More

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1960. Second printing. Octavo (8 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt black spine label. Gift inscription to blank flyleaf, blemish to lower edge. Very good indeed. "VERBICIDE, THE MURDER OF A WORD, HAPPENS IN MANY WAYS" Early printing of Studies in Words, derived from..... More

Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, [1975]. First edition. Original red cloth (7 1/4 inches tall), gilt spine and front board. Fine. "THIS IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF ST. THOMAS IN ITS PRINCIPLES, IN ITS AIM, AND, ABOVE ALL, IN THE PERSONALIST SPIRIT OF ITS INTELLECTUALISM" St. Thomas and Philosophy—a reprint of the..... 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

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. Neat verso reinforcement to corners and ends of unclipped original jacket. A near-fine copy. "LET THE CHURCH REMEMBER THIS: THAT EVERY MAKER AND WORKER IS CALLED TO SERVE GOD IN HIS PROFESSION—NOT OUTSIDE IT"..... More

Canterbury: H.J. Golden, Limited, 1937. First Acting edition. Octavo, original textured stiff wrappers, front wrapper printed in blue. Minor toning and soiling to wrappers. A near-fine copy. "WE ARE THE MASTER-CRAFTSMEN, GOD AND I" First "Acting Edition" of The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy Sayers's Cathedral Play about the..... More

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Limited edition. Small quarto (7 1/2 inches tall), decorated white wrappers folded over card, spine and front wrapper titled in red-and-black, ribbon marker, uncut. About-Fine. "THE FIRST LITERARY EFFORT TO RESTORE THE MORAL ATTITUDE OF ANTIQUITY WHICH HAD BEEN DISPLACED BY MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY" Handsome..... More