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
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth spine, gray buckram boards, original dust jacket. Tiny owner ink-stamp to blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "ONE OF THE MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH" First edition of Willi Apel's authoritative study of the origin and development..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1946. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original gilt green cloth. Gilt bright, corners sharp, very small religious signature (dated January 1947) on blank flyleaf, four library inkstamps to front and back endpapers, else a crisp copy. FROM THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT "TO THE CATHOLIC COLLEGIANS..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951. First edition. Thin quarto (10 inches tall), original gilt cream linen cloth. 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 HE..... 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
Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, 1950. Original illustrated paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall). Ex-library with ink stamps, call number, removed pockets. Binding and interiors very good indeed. "OUR BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER HAS BEEN LIKE A SHIP LAUNCHED UPON A TROUBLED SEA" Revised edition of Percy Dearmer's Everyman's History of..... More
New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First American edition. Folio (14 1/2 inches tall), original purple silk-covered boards decorated in gilt, silver, pink, white, incorporating cross, crowns, fleurs-de-lys, roses, and dove descending, dark navy silk endpapers with repeating rampant lions, top edge gilt, uncut. Tiny bookseller’s blind-stamp to lower corner..... 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 but binding sturdy, boards toned and mottled but gilt bright and corners sharp. A sound, very good copy. "WE OF THE OLD CHURCH CANNOT DO..... More
New York: The Seabury Press, 1976. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, several discrete penciled marginal notes in early chapters, trace of foxing to center front panel, modest toning and wear to spine head of bright, unclipped dust jacket. "LITURGY IS THE WORK OF THE COMMUNITY, NOT..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First edition. Octavo, original blue pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth and plates fine, tape reinforcement on verso, gentle wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "ALL GLORY BE TO THEE, ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER" First edition of..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., [1962]. Tall thick octavo (10 inches tall), original blind-and-gilt-stamped pebbled black boards, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, colored ribbon markers, red and black leather tabs, plain unprinted dust wrapper. Two leather tabs worn, gentle creasing to title page. A beautiful copy. American printing of the..... 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
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1959. Quarto (10 inches tall) original gray cloth, gray endpapers, gray top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner signature and bookseller's stamp to blank flyleaf, toned spine, browning to laminated edges on verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "MAY THIS WORK CONTINUE..... 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
Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1941. First edition. Folio (13 inches tall), original half burlap over green paper boards with mounted illustration, original dust jacket. Light spotting to excellent dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE OLD MUSIC REMAINS, TO BE SUNG AGAIN WITH REVERENCE, AND TO TOUCH OUR MATTER-OF-FACT LIVES..... 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