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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
[Berkeley Heights, New Jersey]: The Sower Press, [1935]. Stitched in original paper wrappers (5 inches tall), printed front panel, illustrated rear panel. Slight crease to lower corner A nearly-fine copy. THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS The Stations of the Cross—an early work by Jean Charlot illustrated with his cartoon-style..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1930. First edition. Small thin quarto (8 inches tall), original black cloth, spine and front board lettered in yellow, uncut, original glassine dust wrapper, 29 pages. Fine. "GRACE TO THE MOTHER / FOR THE GARDEN / WHERE ALL LOVE ENDS" First..... More
Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 32mo. (5 1/2 inches tall), original textured red paper boards, gilt and blind-stamped, central white diamond with gilt crest, red ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Faint tanning to endpapers, else Fine. "DEFENDER OF THE FAITH" The Oxford Miniature Coronation Bible—a finely bound..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Octavo, original sage green cloth with small book club slug, spine lettered in brown, cartographic endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. Faint toning to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WHAT DO YOU ASK? TO TRY MY VOCATION AS A BENEDICTINE NUN IN THIS HOUSE..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1896. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), full navy moroccco, gilt spine and boards, marbled endpapers, uncut. Bookplate, very slight wear to corners and spine ends, scattered foxing to text but plates clean. A near-fine copy. "THE ONE GOLDEN RULE IS TO LET OUR..... More
Sevilla: LitografĂa-Imprenta Gomez Hnos. 1931. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original decorated paper wrappers. Spine toned, soiling to edges of front wrapper, corners creased, interiors clean, plates bright. Covered in a clear, folding wrapper. Very good indeed. "A MAYOR GLORIA DE DIOS Y A MAYOR GLORIA DE SU MADRE IMMACULADA..... 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
London: Methuen & Co., 1898. 12 mo. (7 inches tall), original vellum with yapped fore-edges, gilt titles to spine and front board, ribbon ties and ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Mild foxing to uncut edges, lacking rear ribbon tie, slight crease to lower corner. A nearly-fine copy..... More
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, gilt spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket spine toned to green, slight edge-wear and tiny abrasion to front panel. A nearly-fine copy. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL IS AS CONFIDENT IN THE MORAL..... More
Milan: Italgeo, 1949. Color lithograph (31 by 22 1/4 inches) on thick sheet of paper with text printed on verso. Creased along original folds, faint marginal soiling and wrinkling, slight loss along center folds in upper and lower margins (not affecting image). A near-fine copy. "PAX ET BONUM" Holy..... 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: William Pickering, 1842. First edition. Small octavo (6 5/8 inches tall), contemporary rose-colored pebble-grain morocco, gilt spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Two pages with offsetting from laid-in item, contents otherwise clean; joints and extremities slightly rubbed, spine toned. Near-fine. "HAVING ADDED TO PROBITY WISDOM, AND TO..... 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
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
[New Preston]: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. Octavo (8 5/8 inches tall), original green marbled paper boards, printed paper label to front board, green cloth spine, uncut. Sympathetic restoration to top spine, slight toning and edge-wear to boards, minor damp-stain along upper fore-edge. A near-fine copy. "ACROSS THE WORLD THEY FIND THEIR..... More
London: The Medici Society Limited, 1918. Quarto (10 inches tall), original printed boards, cloth spine lettered in black, mounted color illustration. Slight toning to spine, faint tanning to endpapers, mild abrasions to upper edge of the front board. A near-fine copy. "HOW THE PAINTERS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CAME TO..... More
New York: Printed for Private Circulation, 1914. Limited edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original patterned paper boards, original printed and ruled paper label to front board, gilt vellum spine, uncut, 12 pages. Minor toning and soiling to boards. About Fine. "ALL WHICH THY CHILD'S MISTAKE / FANCIES AS LOST..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1956. First edition. Original white paper vellum (9 3/4 inches tall), gilt spine and front board, original photographic dust jacket. Book fine, price crossed out and repriced on inner flap of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "ALL FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD" First American..... 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
New York: Image Books, 1956. Original paper wrappers (7 inches tall). Very slight wear to corners and spine ends. A nearly-fine copy with an uncreased spine. "THE HUNTED, TRAPPED, MURDERED PRIEST IS AMONGST US AGAIN" First Image Books edition of Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr. This edition, from Doubleday's..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1943. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Book about fine, closed tear to front panel, mild toning to spine of unclipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "IT WILL—GENERALLY SPEAKING—BE AN UNFORTUNATE DAY FOR ROMANTIC THEOLOGY IF IT EVER GETS IN THE HANDS OF..... More