St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1986. Octavo, original stiff printed wrappers with photographs to front and back panels. Fine. "THE CHURCH IS AT THE SERVICE OF THE WORLD, AND OUGHT TO BRING GOD TO IT" First English translation of these extended conversations with Pedro Arrupe—the spiritual testament of..... More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, minor creasing and wear to corners and spine ends of dust jacket. A fresh, bright copy. "IT IS FAR LESS OF A CRIME TO MISHANDLE THE GIFTS OF GOD THAN TO DESPISE THEM" First..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1946. First edition. 12mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Owner blind-stamps, dust jacket chipped, toned, and marked but unclipped and largely unfaded. Very good indeed. "I CAME INTO THE CHURCH LIKE ONE OF THOSE TIMID SWIMMERS WHO CLOSES HIS EYES..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Creasing and chipping with loss to upper edges of bright, unclipped jacket. Very good indeed. "I SUDDENLY SAW THAT ALL THE TIME IT WAS NOT I WHO HAD BEEN SEEKING GOD, BUT GOD..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1955. First edition. 12 mo. original brown cloth spine lettered in white, original dust jacket. About-fine book, short closed tear to bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. An exceptional copy. 'THE WORLD'S SORROW, WITH WHICH I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBSESSED...IS ONLY A SHADOW..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Limited edition. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco, gilt spine with papal arms, marbled boards, red endpapers, top-edge gilt, glassine wrapper, original paper slipcase. Glassine wrapper torn, original slipcase lightly worn at the corners, else Fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth with silver spine, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label. Near-fine book in jacket with minor edge-wear, chipping, closed tears, and small smudges to bottom of front and back panels. Very good indeed. "MOTHER, DEAR, NOTHING CAN EVER..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Octavo, original white paper boards, cloth spine printed in black, original dust jacket. About-Fine. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HEART WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Handsome edition of The Seven Storey Mountain—Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography, which "became a best-seller because it was a religious book..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt spine and device to front board, yellow top edge, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Early owner name to half title inked over with faint bleeding to title page, slight toning and modest edge-wear to corners and..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1946. First edition thus. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine book with owner signature on free front endpaper, dust jacket with chipping to toned spine ends and corners. Very good indeed. "I SOUGHT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD AND CLIMBED THE TOPMOST..... More
London: James Burns, 1848. First edition. Contemporary green cloth (7 inches tall), blind-stamped boards with gilt spine, yellow coated endpapers, uncut. Sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid-down, small Brighton bookseller's ticket, ex-Convent library with two early ink inscriptions to blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "HE SEEMED TO FEEL A...... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over black cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Slight toning to spine of price-clipped jacket. A near-fine copy. "NOW THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN SAY ON THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING, AT THE END OF THE..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Touch of foxing to fore-edges. A nearly-fine copy. "THE TRUE LIKENESS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR WILL BE PAINTED BY HERSELF, A...... More
Ditchling, Sussex: The Ditchling Press Ltd., 1952. Octavo, original gilt blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "WE LIVE IN THE SPEED AGE AND SO MUST SUFFER ACCORDINGLY...BUT WE CAN EXCLUDE FROM THE RUSH ONE SHELF IN THE ROOM, IF WE HAVE ONE, WHERE BOOKS ARE SOMETIMES TO BE ENJOYED IN..... More
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped spine. "I..... More
London: Blackie and Son Limited, circa 1904. Original green cloth (6 1/8 inches tall), gilt spine and front board, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Sporadic light foxing. A nearly-fine copy. "NARROW IS THE MANSION OF MY SOUL" Handsome edition of Augustine's Confessions—translated from the Latin by E.B. Pusey. Issued..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1959. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original magenta cloth, original dust jacket. Mild bump to front upper corner of clean boards, tape marks to blank flyleaves and blank inner flaps, short closed tear to upper front panel of the bright dust jacket. A...... More
London: Burns & Oates, Ltd., circa 1915. Stitched in original paper wrappers (7 inches tall), decorated front panel, uncut. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, mild edge-wear, faint soiling and blemishes to wrappers, final leaf of text misopened. Very good indeed. "THE GREAT POETRY OF IT TRANSCENDED, IN ITSELF AND..... More
London: John Philp, 1861. First edition. Small thin quarto (8 3/8 inches tall), original blindstamped purple cloth, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Blindstamp, Bindery ticket. Slight toning and spotting to boards, very gentle wear to spine ends and corners, occasional foxing to interiors. A nearly-fine copy. "HE WHO HEARS..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth with paper spine label, uncut. Upper front corner bumped, scattered foxing to edges of the text block, gentle toning, creasing to spine ends of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CATHOLIC DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED..... More