London: The Catholic Book Club, 1962. Octavo, original red cloth, spine lettered in black, original dust jacket. About Fine. "CHARITY—A SHORT WORD INDEED, BUT WITH ITS MEANING OF PERFECT AND UNALLOYED LOVE IT SUMS UP THE WHOLE OF MAN'S ATTITUDE TO GOD AND HIS CREATURES" Catholic Book Club edition..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book, gentle toning, minor spotting and soiling, touch of wear along top front panel of unclipped jacket. "A WILD MEDIEVAL DREAM NECESSITATING MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS, GORGEOUS VESTMENTS, AND EXTERNAL SPLENDOUR OF EVERY KIND"... More
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: The Faith Press, 1973. First edition. Quarto (10 inches tall), original brown cloth, tan endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket. Neat early owner signature to front pastedown, gentle bumping to lower corners, excellent dust jacket with only lightest creasing and spotting. A near-fine copy. "THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1955. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Faint bumping to lower corners, inner flap price torn, mild foxing to unfaded dust jacket. Very good indeed. "IN EVERY CHRISTIAN VOCATION LIES THE GERM OF A MONASTIC VOCATION" First edition in English of..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original sewn gray cloth, illustrated endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket. Faint tanning to endpapers, gentle toning and edge-wear to clean, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. THE LIGHTER SIDE OF CLOISTERED LIFE First edition of Brother Choleric's first collection of illustrations..... More
Parkminster, Cowfold: Printed by the Author, 1905. Limited edition. Original straight grain green cloth (6 1/4 inches tall) with mounted illustration inset in front board, marbled purple endpapers, uncut. Spotting to edges, sporadic foxing to interiors. About Fine. "O! JESUS! CONVERT ENGLAND. O! MARY HAVE PITY ON OUR COUNTRY"... More
[Caldey Island, Wales]: Printed by the Community, [1931]. Octavo (8 1/8 inches tall), staple-bound in original decorated paper boards. Faint foxing to preliminary leaves, gentle toning to spine, slight bumping to upper corners, gutter cracked at half title. A near-fine copy. "THE 'ISLE OF SAINTS' AS IT HAS BEEN CALLED..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with paper spine label, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label, book about-fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket with toning, small stains, and closed tears. Very good indeed. "INTENDED FOR THE STUDENT OF HISTORY SACRED AND SECULAR DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1962. First American edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Mild toning to bright, unclipped original dust jacket. A near fine copy. "THE HOLIEST EARTH IN ENGLAND" First American edition of the Flowering Hawthorn—the story of "the coming of Christianity to the..... More
St. Meinrad, Indiana: Grail Publications, 1950. Second printing. Octavo, original mottled green cloth, gilt spine and front board, original printed dust wrapper. Faint toning to original wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. 'HEARKEN, O MY SON, TO THE PRECEPTS OF THY MASTER, AND INCLINE THE EAR OF THY HEART" Second printing..... 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: Macmillan, 1930. First edition. 12mo. (6 3/4 inches tall), original green cloth, uncut, original dust wrapper. Gentle wear to spine ends, worn jacket shorts the book, mildly ex-library: small shelf numbers to endpapers and spine of wrappers. A very good copy. "WE THINK OF THE BENEDICTINES, AND THERE..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1949. Second edition. Large octavo (10 1/8 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket, upper front corner bumped, slight creasing and edge-wear, gentle toning to spine of unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MONASTIC LIFE MET AND SATISFIED THE DEEPEST SPIRITUAL..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1954. Quarto (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Bookplate and presentation inscription to blank flyleaf, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to corners and spine ends, including a closed tear with tape-repair to..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (11 1/8 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Very little wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE GENIUS FOR ORDER AND BEAUTY OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES" First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Gilt bright, gentle bumping to corners, slight bubbling to rear board, mild toning to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE MONASTIC AGREEMENT OF THE MONKS AND NUNS OF THE ENGLISH NATION"... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c.1913. Quarto (11 inches tall), original printed paper boards with mounted color illustration, brown cloth spine lettered in black, brown endpapers. Slight scuffing to mounted illustration, small stain to bottom front board. A near-fine copy. "COULD YOU BE A MONK AND A KNIGHT AT..... More
London: Burns Oates, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor wear to edges of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "SO CLEARLY DOES HIS ACHIEVEMENT STAND OUT FROM THE TURMOIL OF HIS AGE, THAT THE SIX FOLLOWING CENTURIES ARE KNOWN AS 'BENEDICTINE'"..... More
London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1926. First edition. Original green cloth (6 inches tall), gilt spine and front board, blind-stamped rear board, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, original dust jacket. Ex-Library religious bookplate and ink-stamp, slight crease to rear inner flap. About Fine. "WE MAY UNDERSTAND IN A GHOSTLY..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: Trappist, Kentucky, U.S.A., 1949. First edition. Folio (12 inches tall), original gilt blue paper wrappers with mounted illustration, russet endpapers. Early owner signature to flyleaf and half-title, gentle toning to edges, slight wear to mounted illustration, not affecting image. A near-fine copy. "THIS BOOK IS A SONG OF..... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels, original dust jacket. Fine. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES OF THE WORLD LIKE CLOTHING AND ENTER NAKED INTO WISDOM" First revised edition of Thomas Merton's meditations on the spiritual life—printed in the same..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1957. First edition. Small octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, photographic endpapers, red top edge. Dust jacket unclipped and unfaded with minor wear to corners and spine ends. Near-fine. "HE WHO HAS LEFT ALL MEN DWELLS IN THEM ALL BY THE CHARITY OF CHRIST"..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, slate blue top edge, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. An excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped dust jacket with only mild wear to spine ends and corners. A near fine copy. "THERE IS INTOXICATION IN THE WATERS..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over cloth spine, original dust jacket. Very minor wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "I NOW SEE THAT MY WORDS ARE NO MORE THAN THE WALLS THAT SURROUND A SILENT PLACE"..... 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