Octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), contemporary gilt-paneled vellum binding, bookseller's ticket, early owner's blind-stamp. Slight bumping to lower front corner, minor soiling to contemporary gilt vellum boards. A near-fine copy. THE PRINTED RITUAL BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH USES Unique copy—printed and bound in vellum—of this important Anglican liturgical bibliography. This..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Front corner gently bumped, dust jacket with minor wear to top of the spine and front corner, short closed tear to upper rear panel. A near-fine copy. "THE DEEPEST ASPIRATIONS OF THE ENGLISH SOUL" First..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951. First edition. Thin quarto (10 inches tall), original gilt cream linen cloth. Only very gentle edge-wear to top of front board, faint offsetting to free endpapers. A clean and sharp-cornered copy. "IN THE GREAT MYSTERY OF THE MASS, NOT ONLY THAT WHICH IS OFFERED, BUT..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. First thus. 12mo, original half black and red cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Very faint toning to the spine of the dust jacket. An excellent copy. "THE ONLY RITES WHICH POSSESS ANY KIND OF AUTHORITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ARE THOSE CONTAINED..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1924. Second edition. Original navy cloth (6 5/8 inches tall), gilt-stamped front panel, blind-stamped rear panel. Early owner signature, spine largely worn, boards toned and mottled but gilt bright and corners sharp. A sound, very good copy. "WE OF THE OLD CHURCH CANNOT DO BETTER THAN SING..... More
London: Challoner Publications, 1957. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Corners bumped, early owner signature to front pastedown, gentle wear to folds of bright and clean dust jacket. Very good indeed. "WHENEVER THE CHURCH, AS THE 'PEOPLE OF GOD,' COMES BEFORE GOD IN PRAYER WE HAVE LITURGY"..... More
Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1976. First edition. Octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, ink owner signature to half title, closed tear and crease to upper corner of front panel, modest wear to spine ends of bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Very good..... More
Dickinson, Texas: The Angelus Press, 1985. Octavo pamphlet, original stapled pictorial wrappers. Gentle crease to rear corner of bright, clean original wrappers. Nearly-fine. AD ORIENTEM ("TOWARD THE EAST") Second printing of Michael Davies' affirmation of the traditional Roman liturgy, enlarged to assert that "no legal barrier exists, or has existed..... More
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd, 1932. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original beveled gilt black cloth, red top edge. Bookplate. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Penciled initials (dated 1934), faint tanning to blank flyleaves, gilt bright, corners sharp, small puckered spot to upper front..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. First edition. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark red crushed morocco, two ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Very faint toning to spine, gentle wear to head of spine and one upper corner. About-fine. "COUNTLESS MARTYRS CHEERFULLY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES RATHER THAN FOREGO THE SAYING OR..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1923]. First edition. 24mo. (7 inches tall), original gilt and blind-stamped purple cloth, all edges gilt. A nearly-fine copy. "THE WORKINGS OF THE MIND OF THE CHURCH" Lovely first edition of Lady Lovat's meditations on the Holy Days and Feast Days of the Liturgical calendar. Lady..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original red paper boards, black cloth spine, original dust jacket. Very gentle shelf wear to spine ends, jacket price-clipped dust jacket clean and bright. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CHURCH DELIVERS US FROM OURSELVES BY PUBLIC WORSHIP" First edition of Thomas..... More
London: Faith Press Ltd., circa 1926. Original staple-bound soft illustrated cloth wrappers (4 1/8 inches tall). Plates and text clean, gentle edge-wear, minor spotting to original wrappers. THOMAS NOYES-LEWIS AND THE FAITH PRESS Pocket liturgical missal with color illustrations by Thomas Noyes-Lewis, scarce in the original illustrated cloth wrappers. Much..... More
London: Burns & Oates/Anthony Clarke Books, 1964. Early edition. 16mo. (6 5/8 inches tall), original black leatherette with gilt spine titling, original gold dust jacket. Paper label pasted at bottom of title page, a fine book in a price-clipped, nearly-fine dust jacket. "THIS BOOK HAS HAD FAITHFUL FRIENDS THROUGH TWO..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958. First edition. Small folio (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "INTROÏBO AD ALTARE DEI" First edition in English of this pictorial narrative of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as celebrated by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen..... More
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924. First edition. Tall octavo (10 inches tall), original black cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine, rare dust jacket with minor foxing on the front panel and moderate foxing on the back panel. A splendid copy. First edition of this two-part..... More