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. "MY MEMORIES HAVE BECOME CLEARER AND CLEARER UNTIL I HAVE AT LAST BEEN LITERALLY FORCED TO WRITE THEM OUT IN... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. Slight lean to the spine, two short closed tears and mild toning to the spine of the dust jacket. First edition in English of William Weston: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan. The Jesuit missionary William Weston... 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: 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 OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH WAS PRESENTED TO MY MIND"... More
London: Argo, 1967. Quarto, original 12-inch vinyl recording, original printed insert, original inner sleeve, original cardboard outer sleeve. Very minor wear to cardboard sleeve, small hole punch clean-through sleeve in upper left corner. "THE POET SPEAKS" Original phonograph record of David Jones reading selections from his two most important works... More
London: Burns Oates, 1958. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, burgundy top edge, original dust jacket. About-fine. "TO AND FRO AMID MY STRIVINGS AND RESIGNATIONS MOVE, IN MEMORY, THE BLACK-ROBED BENEDICTINE FATHERS WITH THEIR GRACIOUS SILENCES AND BUSY LIFE OF PRAYER" "New Edition" of A Spiritual Aeneid, the best edition of Ronald... 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine with only a smattering of foxing to the front pastedown. Dust jacket with just a trace of creasing to the spine ends. A bright, fresh copy. First American... More
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Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. Later printing. Octavo, original black cloth, gold ribbon marker, uncut, original dust jacket. Fine. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HERAT WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Fiftieth anniversary edition of Merton's timeless spiritual autobiography. This elegant edition features an Introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a.... 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... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First limited edition. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt, original paper slipcase. Original slipcase lightly worn at the corners. Book fine. "THE HUMBLE YOUNG PRIEST OF LONG AGO HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE CHAIR OF ST. MARK" Deluxe limited first... 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