London: Burns Oates Washbourne, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, blue top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, neat underlining and marginal notes to early chapters, gentle toning, slight creasing and chipping to original jacket. Very good indeed. "REGARDED BY MANY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES'..... More
Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1959. First edition. 12mo., original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower corners of book gently bumped, mild offsetting to gutters of blank endpapers. Near-fine. "THROUGH ALL THESE THIRTY YEARS I HAVE REMAINED CONVINCED THAT ST. AUGUSTINE'S THOUGHT PROVIDES A COMMANDING POSITION FROM WHICH TO JUDGE MY OWN..... More
Boston: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1966. Second printing. Large octavo, original half red cloth over black cloth spine, original dust jacket. About fine. "I EXAMINE THE IDEAS AS THEY DEVELOPED-NOT ABSTRACTLY, BUT IN THE MINDS OF DISTINCT INDIVIDUALS. THE DOMINANT FIGURES ARE FEW, INDEED PERHAPS ONLY ONE: ST. AUGUSTINE"... More
New York: Alba House, 1965. First American edition. Octavo, original red linen boards, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine with short closed tear to top and faint toning to the bottom of dust jacket. About fine. First American edition of this biography of Augustine's formative years, centering on the Confessions..... More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Extremely faint marginal pencil marks in the earliest sections, price sticker on front flap of dust jacket. "PERHAPS NO QUESTION, EXCEPT THE PROBLEM OF GOD, SO OBSESSED AUGUSTINE AS THE ISSUE OF TIME, WITH..... More
Oxford and London: John Henry Parker/F. and J. Rivington, 1845-1881. Collected edition. Forty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter vellum, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing to endpapers but text generally quite clean, occasional mild soiling to bright vellum bindings, one volume with expert repair to corner. Sturdy, neat, and clean..... More