New York: The Bruce Publishing Company/London: Collier-Macmillan, Limited, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Early price-sticker to back panel of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of this collection of "diversified reactions to papal policy on the part of seven prominent observers." The essays include... More about Paul VI; Critical Appraisals
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First American edition. Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. Dusty top-edge to nearly-fine book, dust jacket with only mild wear to the spine ends. A near-fine copy. First English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s first book, with a Foreword by Eberhard Bethge, one..... More about The Communion of Saints; A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church
London: A. & C. Black, 1970. Second edition. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original navy cloth, blue top edges, original dust jackets. Fine. Second edition of Chadwick's brilliant history of the ecclesiastical landscape in 19th century Great Britain. "Owen Chadwick was one of the great religious historians of our time. His... More about The Victorian Church
London: The Bodley Head, 1960. Later edition. Twelvemo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original green cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to edges and spine of the dust jacket. A crisp and clean copy. Bodley Head edition of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's early classic, part of the publisher's smart series of... More about Heretics
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "CULTURE CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY CONSCIOUS—THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO IT THAN WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF; AND IT CANNOT BE PLANNED BECAUSE IT IS ALSO THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND OF ALL OUR PLANNING" First..... More about Notes towards the Definition of Culture
London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, touch of foxing to top edge, spine of dust jacket toned, pen slash through price on front flap. A near-fine copy. First edition of Fasnacht's survey of Acton, based on his extensive... More about Acton's Political Philosophy; An Analysis by G. E. Fasnacht
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906. First American edition. Thick octavo, original green cloth gilt, uncut. One corner slightly bumped, small library stamp on free endpaper, several leaves unopened. A nearly-fine copy, uncommon in this condition. First American edition of the letters of Lord Acton, tracing the turbulent years... More about Lord Acton and His Circle
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original mustard cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Ink marks to top and bottom edges, likely remainder marks, owner stamp to bottom corner of free-front endpaper, toning to spine and edges of dust jacket. A very good copy. "THIS IS A BOOK... More about Divine Disobedience; Profiles in Catholic Radicalism
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge, minimal edge-wear, vertical slice to center of front panel, crease to front flap of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PRESENT STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO REPAY A DEBT TO... More about Sources of Renewal; The Implementation of the Second Vatican Council
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Ink notes to rear flyleaf of about-fine book, moderate toning and soiling to top rear panel of still bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WITH ALL THE STRENGTH OF HIS FAITH, AND ALL THE POWER OF... More about Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Only slightest of edge-wear to bright and fresh dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "SEND FORTH THY SPIRIT AND THOU SHALT RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH" First edition in English of this work... More about The Council, Reform and Reunion
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1908. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt. Minor spotting to spine, gilt bright. Wear to edges of boards, moderate soiling to top edge of text block. "THE MODERNIST CONTROVERSY" First edition of this collection of essays on the Modernist controversy, with Lilley's epistle... More about Modernism; A Record and Review
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 about The Legal Status of the Tridentine Mass
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with a trace of edge-wear and typical toning to top of front panel, spine and flap folds. An excellent copy of a scarce book. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL... More about After Virtue; A Study in Moral Theory
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1976. Second printing. Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature on front free endpaper. Mild soiling to cloth and minor edge-wear and toning to spine of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I PARTICULARLY WANT TO REACH, AND OPEN UP NEW, HOPEFUL... More about The Church and the Homosexual
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. First printing. Octavo, original brick cloth spine, paper boards, red top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to front pastedown, bookplate to free front endpaper, card pocket removed from rear pastedown. Dust jacket with edge-wear, closed tears, and chipping to spine. Very... More about Seeds of Destruction
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952. First British edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle wear to the edges of the dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "LOVE IS THE SUREST CERTAINTY THAT MAN KNOWS; THE ONE IRREFUTABLE, EXISTENTIAL COGITO: I LOVE, THEREFORE I AM; THEREFORE BEING IS... More about Personalism
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First American edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Small abrasion to top corner of front pastedown, creasing to corners and ends of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "CATHOLICISM IS NOT JUST A RELIGION: IT IS A COUNTRY OF THE HEART AND OF... More about The Desolate City; Revolution in the Catholic Church
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 about The Genesee Diary; Report from a Trappist Monastery
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with neat academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped... More about My Way of Faith
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First edition. Twelvemo (7 1/2 inches tall), orignal blue cloth gilt. Faint tanning and spotting to endpapers, two pencil annotations to title page, minor bump to lower right corner, else a bright, nearly-fine copy. "S. THOMAS WAS THUS THE TRUE MODERNIST OF... More about The Programme of Modernism; A Reply to the Encyclical of Pius X
London: SPCK, 1974. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Slight foxing to fore-edge. An about-fine copy. First edition in English of this book on ecclesiology, published at the height of Rahner's influence. "Karl Rahner was probaby the most influential figure in Catholic theology in the years immediately... More about The Shape of the Church to Come
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to corners and spine ends of unfaded and unclipped dust jacket. A bright, clean copy. "A SALVATION OF THE WORLD DOES EXIST" First American edition of Joseph Ratzinger's best-known book, in the bright... More about Introduction to Christianity
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First edition. Large octavo, original magenta cloth, black top edge, original dust jacket. Book with only faintest soiling to boards, spot of tape residue and scratch to front panel of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE ESSENTIAL RYNNE" First edition of this... More about Vatican Council II
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint toning to cloth edges, dust jacket nicked at top of front panel. A near-fine copy. "THE WHOLE FUTURE OF THE EARTH, AS OF RELIGION, SEEMS TO ME TO DEPEND ON THE AWAKENING... More about The Future of Man