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 about Light on a Dark Horse; An Autobiography
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 about On Pilgrimage
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 about The Golden String; The Autobiography of Bede Griffiths
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 about William Weston; The Autobiography of an Elizabethan
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 about The Manner is Ordinary
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1956. Early edition. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, photographic endpapers. Jesuit stamp to blank flyleaf. Housed in a custom blue morocco chemise and slipcase. Fine. "THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE WHICH MAKES IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY DISTINCTIVE" Limited printing of the Autobiography of Ignatius Loyola, combined with... More about St. Ignatius' Own Story; With a Sampling of His Letters
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 about John Henry Newman - Autobiographical Writings
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 about Apologia Pro Vita Sua; The Two Versions of 1864 and 1865
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 about The Habit of Being; Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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 about My Way of Faith
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 about Journal of a Soul
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 about Taken Care Of; An Autobiography
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 about Autobiography of a Saint