Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, circa 1950. Octavo (10 inches tall), contemporary three-quarter crushed red morocco, colored endpapers, top edge gilt. Early owner signature, very modest toning to upper edges of boards, plates fine. An excellent copy. "TURN US, O GOD OF HOSTS, SHOW US THY COUNTENANCE, AND WE SHALL..... More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Minor creasing and wear to corners and spine ends of dust jacket. A fresh, bright copy. "TO REPAY MY DEBT BOTH TO ALMIGHTY GOD AND TO MY PARENTS, FOR LETTING ME LOOSE IN SUCH A WORLD..... More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1949. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 inches tall), staple-bound in original buff paper wrappers. Gentle edge-wear, discrete reinforcement to lower spine and rear wrapper, rounded chip to rear fore-edge, smaller chips to corners of bright and clean original paper wrappers. A splendid copy. "I PRAY..... 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: 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
London: Geoffrey Bless, 1955. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine book, small closed tear at top of front panel, trace of wear to spine ends and corners. An excellent copy. "I GAVE IN, AND ADMITTED THAT GOD WAS GOD, AND KNELT AND PRAYED"..... 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, bright dust jacket with slight wear to corners and ends of gently toned spine. Very good indeed. "I SOUGHT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD..... 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, original black cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "EVEN IN THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN, FAITH RISES AND FALLS LIKE THE TIDES OF AN INVISIBLE SEA" First edition of this collection of Flannery O'Connor's engaging..... 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 neat 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..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First limited edition. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, red endpapers, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Light wear to original slipcase. Book fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHAIR OF..... 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: Hutchinson, 1965. First edition. Royal octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original beige cloth with black spine roundels, blue top edge, printed endpapers, original dust jacket. Fine. "I HAVE ATTACKED NOBODY, UNLESS THEY FIRST ATTACKED ME" First edition of Dame Edith Sitwell's tart autobiography, published shortly after her death, with..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, n.d. Early edition. Original straight-grained blue cloth (5 5/8 inches tall), marbled endpapers, clear glassine wrapper, original patterned paper slipcase with printed label. Book fine, glassine creased, slight abrasion to printed label, minor edge-wear to slipcase. A handsome, near-fine copy. "EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE..... 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