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: John Murray, 1957. First trade edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, price-clipped jacket with John Murray remainder sticker. A splendid, nearly-fine copy. "AN ANCIENT WISDOM EXORCISING THE MEMORY OF THE CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED OF THE INTERVENING CENTURIES, THAT BRINGS ITS MESSAGE OF TRANQUILITY TO QUIETEN... 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
New York: Macmillan, 1930. First edition. 12mo., original green cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle wear to spine ends, fragile dust jacket shorts the book but is intact, mildly ex-library with small shelf numbers to pastedowns and spine of the dust jacket. A very good copy. "WE THINK OF THE... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "BEDE THE VENERABLE IS THE FIRST GREAT ENGLISHMAN OF WHOM WE CAN FORM A CLEAR PERSONAL PICTURE" First edition of David Knowles's rewarding portraits of twenty-five great minds spanning a thousand years of... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine. First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and local architecture of the religious houses in England, Scotland, and Wales, providing modern witness to the destruction wrought by the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-1541)... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original burlap boards with two mounted paper labels, original dust jacket. Owner signature to blank flyleaf, instance of finger-soiling to front panel of the dust jacket and gentle creasing to the head of the spine. A near-fine copy. "LET US THROW OFF... 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
Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1960. First edition. 12mo., original decorated cream boards, orange endpapers, original dust wrapper. Slight toning to spine of wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "HELPS AND STRENGTHENS US IN OUR GROPING EFFORTS TO CORRESPOND WITH THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT" First book edition—"revised and considerably expanded"—of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First edition. Octavo, original blue paper boards over black cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. About-fine. "NOW THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN SAY ON THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING, AT THE END OF THE EVENT THAT STARTED ON PENTECOST, IS 'THANKS BE TO GOD THAT I HAVE BEEN... More
Washington, D. C. Cistercian Publications/Consortium Press, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Slight fading to edges of near-fine cloth, minor creasing and closed tears to spine ends of dust jacket. Small "St. Jos Abbey" price sticker to bottom of front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE CONTEMPLATIVE... More