London: SPCK, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers and verso of the dust jacket flaps. A near-fine copy. THE RULE OF LITTLE GIDDING First edition of this depiction of the spirituality of the Anglican community gathered around the Ferrar family at Little..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1940. First edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), original red cloth, illustrated cartographical endpapers, uncut. Rear lower corner bumped, boards and interiors clean, front hinge cracked but firm, very faint tanning to illustrated endpapers. A near-fine copy. "SHE BUILT AN ORATORY WITHIN HER HEART WHICH..... More
London and New York: Scepter, 1977. First edition in English. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. closed tear to upper left of the front panel, toning to the edges of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I HAVE TO PASS UNNOTICED AND DISAPPEAR, SO THAT JESUS ALONE BE IN..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "ESPOUSING LADY POVERTY" First edition of Bishop's life of "Il Poverello," published shortly after Bishop's death in 1973. Bishop was professor emeritus and curator of the Dante and Petrarch Collections of Cornell University. "Francis..... More
London: Williams & Norgate, 1914. First British edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, uncut, original dust wrapper. Ink stamp, slight tanning to endpapers of nearly-fine book, creasing, soiling and wear to rare original dust wrapper. Very good indeed. "THE DIVINA COMMEDIA REPAYS THE STUDY OF THE HISTORIAN, THE PHILOSOPHER, THE ARCHAEOLOGIST..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1954]. Early edition. 12mo., original patterned red cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with early owner signature, whisper of tanning to front flyleaf, front jacket flap torn with loss, spine faded, slight edge-wear. Very good indeed. "HIS FIGURE STANDS ON A SORT OF BRIDGE CONNECTING MY..... More
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), gilt decorated russet cloth with mounted illustration, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Partially unopened, corners gently bumped, endpapers tanned, spotting to fore-edges of the text block, gilt cloth bright. "DEAR CHILD, JESUS WAS NEVER NEARER..... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original mottled rust cloth, silver papal arms, original dust jacket. Dust jacket tanned with tidelines on the verso. A near-fine copy. "POPE PIUS XII WILL LIVE IN THE FUTURE AS THE APOSTLE OF LOVE" First edition of this warm memorial tribute to..... More
Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds, 1953. Early edition. Octavo, original lime green cloth, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown of about-fine book, gentle creasing and wear to spine ends, top edges, and corners of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "NOTHING SAVE THYSELF, LORD" Early edition of Fr. Martin..... More
Westminster, Maryland: Newman, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle soiling to pale boards, minor spotting to front and spine panel of bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. 'INSTAURARE OMNIA IN CHRISTO" ("RESTORE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST") First English translation of this Italian Life of..... More
New York: Bookman Associates, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Price-clipped torn corner of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "HOPKINS' POETRY IS STRIKINGLY CONSONANT WITH THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. IGNATIUS AS EMBODIED IN HIS SPIRITUAL EXERCISES" First edition study of the influence of St. Ignatius Loyola's..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with paper spine label, original dust jacket. Bookseller's label, book about fine, in a good price-clipped dust jacket with toning and small stains. First edition of the early medieval historian's biography of Alcuin's life and work in Anglo-Saxon England and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, with only minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. “MOTHER TERESA’S VISION OF THE STREET, WHICH DROVE HER OUT AMONG THOSE ROTTING WITH DISEASE AND WRACKED..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967. First American edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy with only faint toning to spine and upper edge of front panel of the dust jacket. "PIUS XI WAS TOO EXALTED TO BE TOUCHED BY VANITY; AND WITH HIM IT..... More
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to rear upper corner and base of the spine. A near-fine copy. First American edition of this composite biography, a mythologizing celebration of the four Knox Brothers, published in the same year..... More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1950. Second impression. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. About-fine book with only gentle toning to the spine, small tape stain to inside flap of the dust jacket. An excellent copy. "FATHER, I ABANDON MYSELF IN YOUR HANDS, DO WITH ME WHAT YOU..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Quarto (14 3/4 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Corners bumped, slight wear to spine and edges of original boards. Very good indeed. "WE ARE LOST. WE HAVE BURNED A SAINT" First American edition of Funck-Brentano's pictorial biography of Joan of Arc, gloriously..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First British edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Boards bright, tape marks to blank flyleaves, library ink stamp and pencil signature to front flyleaf, short closed tear, minor creasing and edge-wear to original dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONE OF THE GREAT..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Comapny, 1954. Early printing. Tall octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner inkstamp to rear blank flyleaf, small chip, mild creasing to edges of unfaded and unclipped original dust jacket. A lovely copy. "NONE OF THE GREAT THINGS IN HUMAN LIFE SPRINGS FROM THE INTELLECT;..... More
Lyon: Petri Rigaud, 1607. Early edition. Small octavo (6 3/4 inches tall), contemporary brown morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, central coat of arms within a lozenge design of small leafy tools, corners with sprigs, fillet border. Calligraphic ink inscription in Latin dated 1611 to blank flyleaf, mild dampstaining..... More
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
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of this first biography of the first modern pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait..... More
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New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, blue top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Chipping and creasing to spine ends and to the front panel of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "AS THE CHAMPION OF WHAT T.S. ELIOT CALLED 'THE PERMANENT THINGS', BURKE DID NOT..... 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
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, original dust jacket. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Small tape stain to upper corner of free front endpaper. Mild toning to spine, small chip to bottom of back panel of dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of..... More