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, staple-bound in buff paper wrappers. Minor rubbing to spine, closed tear to base of front wrapper, rounded chip to lower fore-edge of back wrapper, smaller chips to corners of bright and clean original paper wrappers. A splendid copy. Rare first edition..... 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. Early owner signature to free front endpaper, modest edge-wear to dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE GOLDEN STRING IS CHRIST; HE IS THE CLUE TO THE CENTRE" First American edition of Bede Griffiths'..... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle spotting to the text, slight lean to the spine, two short closed tears and mild toning to the spine of the original dust jacket. "CATHOLICS NOW SAW THEIR OWN COUNTRY, THE COUNTRY OF THEIR BIRTH..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth with silver spine label, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label. Near-fine book in a dust jacket with minor edge-wear, chipping, closed tears, and small smudges to bottom of front and back panels. Very good indeed. First edition..... 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
London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Both the book and the dust jacket are in excellent condition. A nearly-fine copy. "JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: 'LUMEN ET DECUS EXIMIUM' OF THE ENGLISH NATION" First edition of this collection of John..... More
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1913. Later edition. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt and blind- stamped spine. The text block is cracked between title and contents pages but the red cloth boards are sharp-cornered, fresh and bright. Comprehensive "Oxford Edition" of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, collecting..... 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. First edition of Flannery O'Connor's engaging letters, an essential component of her published body of work. It was easy for readers in the 1950s and early 60s..... 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: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Octavo, modern full crushed red morocco, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Fine. "NARROW IS THE MANSION OF MY SOUL" Finely-illustrated-and-bound edition of Augustine's Confessions, translated from the Latin by E.B. Pusey. The spiritual autobiography is the ideal introduction to the life and thought..... 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 and New York: Sheed & Ward, 1960. Later edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-stickers to inner flap, smudging, small chip to spine of the dust jacket. "LATE HAVE I LOVED THEE, O BEAUTY SO ANCIENT AND SO NEW; LATE HAVE I LOVED THEE!" Later..... 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
London: The Harvill Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Book fine, mild foxing to the edges of the text block and the rear flap of the bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "JESUS, MY WELL-BELOVED, HOW CONSIDERATE YOU ARE IN YOUR TREATMENT OF..... 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 dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CATHOLIC DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN..... More