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London and Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1907. Original gilt-strap decorated purple cloth (5 3/8 inches tall), illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Mild bump to upper corner, gentle toning to spine, faint foxing to endpapers. A near-fine copy. "WE MUST LOVE WHAT GOD LOVES" First edition of this Introduction..... More
[Sussex]: [Printed for the author], 1931. Quarto (9 5/8 inches tall), unsewn and uncut, 8 pages. Faint spotting at spine. About Fine. "SO TOUCH MY DYING LIP : SO BRIDGE THAT DEEP : / SO PLEDGE MY WAKING FROM THE GIFT OF SLEEP, / AND SACRAMENTAL, RAISE ME THE DIVINE..... More
London: The Catholic Literature Association, [1920's]. Original brown paper wrappers (6 1/2 inches tall), stapled and printed in black, 23 pages (paginated B60-B83). Staples rusted but solid, interiors clean, mild curling to upper corner. A near-fine copy. "OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WAS CONTENTED TO BETRAYED, AND GIVEN UP INTO THE..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1926. First illustrated edition. Original russet cloth (7 7/8 inches), gilt spine and front board with mounted color illustration, pale gray endpapers, original dust wrapper with mounted color illustration. Gutter cracked at p.130 but holding, slight foxing to edges and earliest and last leaves, modest..... More
London: Elkin Matthews, 1896. First edition. Original green laminated pictorial boards (5 7/8 inches tall), blank white cloth spine, uncut. Bookplate with pencil signature, slight toning to spine, faint offsetting to blank flyleaves, minor bumping corners. A near-fine copy. "IN BOOKS, OR WORK, OR HEALTHFUL PLAY, / LET MY FIRST..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1963. First edition. Thick octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original russet cloth, spine lettered in black, original pictorial dust jacket. Very slight wear and toning to unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CARMELITE SAINTS ARE NOTHING IF NOT TEACHERS OF A PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY"... More
Summit, New Jersey: Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, 1967. Limited edition. Octavo, stitched in original red card wrappers printed in black, original folding card case, 12 pages. Small bump at base of spine, else Fine. "NOT BY SACRED ELOQUENCE DOES A NUN MOVE MOUNTAINS. FOR A DOMINICAN CONTEMPLATIVE..... 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
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1955. Limited edition. Quarto (13 1/8 inches tall), original emerald cloth boards, original blank kraft-paper wrapper. A fine copy. "YOUR BELOVED PATRICK WAS A NATIVE OF ENGLAND" Limited edition of this debate on the birthplace of St. Patrick—privately printed for the author at..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1955. First edition. 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Christmas inscription to blank flyleaf, upper corner of page 109 torn away but present, unclipped dust jacket bright and fresh. About Fine. "HER MEDITATIONS ARE ALL THE MORE POIGNANT BECAUSE SHE..... More
Spenser, Massachusetts: Cistercian Publications, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original sage cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Small owner ink-stamp to front endpaper, very slight edge-wear to unclipped dust jacket. A nearly fine copy. "EVERY CHRISTIAN MAY, IF HE SO DESIRES, ENTER INTO COMMUNION WITH THIS SILENCE OF THE PRAYING..... More
Birmingham: Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, 1989. Two volumes. Quarto (11 5/8 inches tall), original textured red paper wrappers, gilt titles to spine and front wrappers. Volume I has slight blemishes, notably a slightly faded spine. A near-fine set. "I HAVE NOTHING OF A SAINT ABOUT ME AS..... More
Dover: G.W. Grigg and Son, 1919. First edition. Original white paper boards (7 inches tall), front board decorated in red with gilt accent, uncut. Touch of soiling to boards, else a near-fine copy. "WE MUST, AS SAINT GEORGE DID, EVER SET BEFORE US THE IDEAL OF OUR FAITH—NOT THE FAITH..... More
Menlo Park, California: Layman's Press, 1963. Quarto (8 1/2 by 11 inches), original orange photographic wrappers, lettered in white, 96 pages. Fine. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THOMAS MERTON'S "LETTERS TO A WHITE LIBERAL" First edition of The Negro and the White Conscience, a pivotal issue of the early—Catholic—incarnation of..... 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. Limited edition. Quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards, red morocco spine with gilt title, original plain white paper dust wrapper with spine titled in ink. Fine. "THE RHEMES NEW TESTAMENT WAS AND REMAINS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP IN THE..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895. 12 mo. (7 7/8 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, gilt top edge, uncut. Owner signature to title page, sporadic neat underlining and marginal notes in text, faint toning to spine, very slight wear to corners. A nearly-fine copy..... More
San Francisco: The Church Book Shop, 1932. First edition. Small quarto (8 1/4 inches tall), original white card pasted in original decorated dust wrappers, uncut. Very mild wear to corners. About Fine. "KEEP THOU THE RADIANT VISION OF THY FACE / UNDIMMED BEFORE MY SIGHT" First edition of this..... More
Downside Abbey, near Bath: Downside Review Publication, 1959. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), stapled in original stiff wrappers with folded flaps, printed in black with price to inner flap and printer to rear panel, 8pp. Slight toning to wrapper, mild bump to top spine, very faint creasing to lower edge..... More
Kirkcaldy: St. Margaret's Chapel Guild, 1980. stapled in original white paper wrappers with illustrations to front and back. Date penciled to upper corner of blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "WE REMEMBER BEFORE THEE THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF THY SERVANT, QUEEN MARGARET" Later printing of St. Margaret and Her..... More
London: Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1923. First edition. Stapled in original stiff black paper wrappers (5 inches tall) printed in white. Fine. "IT IS MY FEELING THAT THESE SONNETS BELONG TO ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH CHURCH" First British edition of these 26 sonnets, by the American poet, Thomas..... More
Stanbrook, Worcester: The Abbey of Our Lady of Consolation, 1881. Quarto (11 3/8 inches tall), brown pebbled cloth stamped in black, gilt spine and front board, yellow coated endpapers. Ex-library: Jesuit ink-stamps to blank flyleaf and call number to spine, spine ends frayed, slight bumping to upper corners, tanning to..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Octavo (8 5/8 inches tall), original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in silver, gray endpapers, original dust jacket. Fine. "LET US LEAVE THE SURFACE AND, WITHOUT LEAVING THE WORLD, PLUNGE INTO GOD" (PENSÉES 66) Early edition of Hymn of the Universe—collecting..... More
[Boston]: Firefly Press, 2009. Broadside (16 by 12 inches), single leaf of wove paper with a deckled edge, printed in red-and-black. Gentle curl to lower right corner. Fine. "THE GOD WHOM PEOPLE FORGET—THE GOD WHOM WE ALL HAVE TO SERVE—EXISTS AND IS THE PRIME CAUSE OF OUR EXISTENCE AND OF..... More
New York: Henry Schuman, 1950. First edition. Original pearl gray cloth (8 3/4 inches tall), decorated spine and front baord, cream endpapers, original dust jacket. Very slight toning to unclipped dust jacket. About Fine. "THE STORY OF EASTER IS NOT SIMPLY A CHRISTIAN STORY" First edition of Alan Watts's..... More