New York: Sheed and Ward, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book, gentle toning, minor spotting and soiling, touch of wear along top front panel of unclipped jacket. "A WILD MEDIEVAL DREAM NECESSITATING MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS, GORGEOUS VESTMENTS, AND EXTERNAL SPLENDOUR OF EVERY KIND"... More
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: The Faith Press, 1973. First edition. Quarto (10 inches tall), original brown cloth, tan endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket. Neat early owner signature to front pastedown, gentle bumping to lower corners, excellent dust jacket with only lightest creasing and spotting. A near-fine copy. "THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN..... More
New York: St. Thomas Church, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original paper boards (9 1/4 inches tall) over red cloth spine. Laid-in is a contemporary parish bulletin, detailing the parish activities under the Rev. John Andrew. Very minor blemishes to original boards, including a faint trace of a removed sticker to..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Original black cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), gilt and blind-stamped spine and front board, original dust wrapper. Book fine, early owner signature, scarce original wrapper with loss of lower spine but unclipped and complete. An excellent copy. "MOST ENGLISHMEN ARE OUTSIDE THE PAPAL FOLD..... More
London: Joseph Masters, 1850. Octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), contemporary gilt-paneled vellum, bookseller's ticket, early owner's blind-stamps. Slight bumping, minor soiling to vellum boards. A near-fine copy. THE PRINTED RITUAL BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH USES Unique copy—printed on vellum and bound in vellum—of this important Anglican liturgical bibliography..... More
London and Oxford: James Parker, 1870. X. First edition. Large folio (17 by 13 1/2 inches), original blind-stamped pebbled blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and both boards, all edges red. Very slight edge-wear, small abrasion to lower rear board, some cracking to interior text block but binding holding firm..... More
Published by the Dean and Chapter, 1948. Small quarto (8 3/4 inches tall, staple-bound in original illustrated wrapper. Gift inscription to a young chorister to half-title, gentle toning to edges, mild spotting to rear wrapper. A near-fine copy. "IN THE QUIRE OF CANTERBURY WE STAND IN THE 'HOLY OF HOLIES..... More
London: SPCK, 1950. First edition. Modern blue paper boards (8 1/2 inches tall), cloth spine with title in ink. Owner ink-stamp to endpaper, tanning to front and back blank flyleaves. About Fine. "THE GREATEST BRITISH CHURCH ARCHITECT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" First edition of Ninian Comper's essay on "the high..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1904. Original red cloth (7 7/8 inches tall), gilt spine, original printed dust wrapper. Faint scattered foxing, gentle toning and neat tape repair to verso of wrapper. A near-fine copy. "BY THY LARGE DRAUGHTS OF INTELLECTUAL DAY / AND BY THY THIRSTS OF LOVE MORE..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First edition. Octavo, original blue pebbled blue cloth, gilt front board, original pictorial dust jacket. Book fine, original dust jacket with faint red stains (the ink used in printing frequently ran or offset, this copy is no exception), several short tears..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Original blue cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), printed paper spine label, uncut, original dust jacket. Final leaf unopened, mild offsetting to two blank flyleaves, short closed tear to front panel of price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "CLASSICIST IN LITERATURE, ROYALIST IN POLITICS..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First American edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, dated 1940, to blank flyleaf, very faint tanning to endpapers, gentle wear and spine toning to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY ONY BECOMES ACCEPTABLE AFTER..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "THE PRIMARY CHANNEL OF TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE IS THE FAMILY" First American edition demonstrating T.S. Eliot's continued resolve, begun in The Ideal of a Christian Society (1939), to define and defend Western culture. One..... More
Westminster: The Council for Defense of Church Principles, [1943]. First edition. Staple-bound (7 1/4 inches tall) in original printed brown wrappers. Fine. "I AM WRITING AS AN ANGLICAN LAYMAN TO THE LAITY" First edition of T.S. Eliot's argument against a proposed plan to unite the Anglican dioceses in South..... More
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Seabury Press, 1961. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, dust jacket with toned spine, chip to lower front corner. "EVERY PARISH MUST BE A CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WHERE ONE CAN EXPECT TO FIND AN UNDERSTANDING AND LOVING RECEPTION" First edition of Bishop Appleton Lawrence's valuable..... More
Capel-Y-Fin: Francis Walterson, 1928. Limited edition. 12 mo. (7 7/8 inches tall), original blue paper boards, gilt black cloth spine, uncut. Bookplate and ink inscription. Interiors fine, minor toning to boards, lower corner bumped. Very good indeed. "MARRIAGE IS THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD" Limited edition of two seventeenth-century sermons..... More
New York and Montreal: M. Walter Dunne, [1904]. Original stiff paper vellum wrapper (9 5/8 inches tall), printed in black with a red frame. Interiors fine, mild chipping and tanning to front panel, minor edge-wear to rear panel. A near-fine copy. "URBS INCLYTA ANGLORUM LONDONIA" A Key to the Principal..... More
New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First edition. Folio (14 1/2 inches tall), original purple silk-covered boards decorated in gilt, silver, pink, white, incorporating cross, crowns, fleurs-de-lys, roses, and dove descending, dark navy silk endpapers with repeating rampant lions, top edge gilt, uncut. Tiny bookseller’s ticket (Brentanos) to rear endpaper..... 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 IS THE DUTY AND HIGH PRIVILEGE OF THE..... More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, [1953]. 24mo. (5 5/8 inches tall), contemporary full caramel brown calf, central gilt monogram, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine. "THE ENGLISH HYMNAL IS A COLLECTION OF THE BEST HYMNS IN THE LANGUAGE" Beautifully bound mid-century edition of The English Hymnal—monogrammed..... More
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to rear upper corner and base of the spine. A near-fine copy. First American edition of this composite biography, a mythologizing celebration of the four Knox Brothers, published in the same year..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Embossed blind-stamp to title page, price-clipped original dust jacket with modest wear. Very good indeed. "FATHER PAUL AND MOTHER LURANA WITH THEIR SPIRITUAL CHILDREN HAD TURNED THEIR FACES TO THE..... More
Oxford and London: A.R. Mowbray & Co., 1899. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original textured beveled cloth, decorated front board stamped in black, gilt spine. Bookplate, spine toned, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. "YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS THE FRUIT OF FIVE-AND-THIRTY YEARS OF MY WORK IN ONE..... More
San Francisco: The Church Book Shop, 1932. 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 Octave..... More
New York: The Seabury Press, 1976. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, several discrete penciled marginal notes in early chapters, trace of foxing to center front panel, modest toning and wear to spine head of bright, unclipped dust jacket. "LITURGY IS THE WORK OF THE COMMUNITY, NOT..... More