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
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Limited edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original gilt calf spine, marbled paper boards, vellum corner tips, uncut. Morocco bookplate. Housed in a custom brown cloth chemise and morocco slipcase. Very minor soiling to bright boards. Fine. Superb limited edition of the Venerable Bede's..... More
London: John Murray, 1957. First trade edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, price-clipped jacket with publisher's remainder sticker to flap of price-clipped jacket. A splendid, nearly-fine copy. "AN ANCIENT WISDOM EXORCISING THE MEMORY OF THE CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED OF THE INTERVENING CENTURIES" First trade edition of..... 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
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
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: 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. Faint tanning to flyleaves, minor edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE GENIUS FOR ORDER AND BEAUTY OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES" First edition of this photographic survey of the sites and local..... 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" First..... 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: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1895. Octavo, original blue cloth. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, ex-seminary library: call numbers to spine, ink stamps, card pocket to rear endpaper, slight lean to spine, marginal spotting to text. A bright, sharp-cornered copy. Very good indeed. "A DEED OF..... More
London: Burns Oates, 1952. Early edition. Small octavo, original green cloth, dark top edge, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Very faint pencil marks to the margins of the preface, toning to folds and spine of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "HEARKEN MY SON TO THE PRECEPTS OF THE MASTER..... 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
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
London: Burns & Oates. 16mo, original flexible black leatherette boards, original gold foil dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket, owner signature, neat pencil and ink underlining and pencil notes throughout, else a near-fine example in a price-clipped dust jacket. "THEN WILL HE SEND OUT A BEAM OF GHOSTLY LIGHT, PIERCING THIS..... 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
London: The De La More Press, 1902. First edition. Quarto, original vellum spine, gilt and blind stamped gray paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Soiling to spine, toned edges, corners bumped, foxing to blank flyleaf, binding sturdy, closed tear to plate VII (not affecting image) else interior text and plates..... 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