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 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., original green cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle wear to spine ends, jacket shorts the book and is worn along the spine, mildly ex-library with small shelf numbers to pastedowns and spine of the dust jacket. A very good copy. "WE THINK OF... 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
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
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Early printing. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels. Two embossed blindstamps (title page, pages 49, 140), both paper labels intact, slight toning to spine label, very faint spotting to clean, sharp-cornered boards. A lovely copy. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES... 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: Doubleday, 1976. Early 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
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