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 about Chronicles of Little Gidding
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 about Msgr. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer; A Profile of the Founder of Opus Dei
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 about St. Francis of Assisi
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 about The Spiritual Message of Dante
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 about St. Francis of Assisi
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 about Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 about Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne; His World and His Work
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 about Such a Vision of the Street; Mother Teresa - The Spirit and the Work
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 about The Popes in the Twentieth Century; From Pius X to John XXIII
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 about The Knox Brothers
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 about Desert Calling; The Story of Charles de Foucauld
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 about Joan of Arc
London: Burns & Oates, 1959. First English translation. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small inkstamp to top of free front endpaper, short tears to lower folds of the dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are near-fine. "THE CULT OF ST. THÈRÉSE OF LISIEUX HAS A...... More about The Hidden Face; A Study of St.Thèrése of Lisieux
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 about The Lord
London, Boston and New York: Philip Lee Warner/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. Limited edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), original charcoal paper boards over cloth spine, gilt morocco spine label, uncut, original buff paper wrapper. Small bookseller's label, partially unopened. A fine book in a fine wrapper. "I HAVE SEEN DANTE'S... More about Portraits of Dante; From Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study with a Concise Iconography
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 about De Vita B. Francisci Xavierii; Qui primus è Societate Iesu in Indiam & Iaponiam Evangelium...
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
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 about Leo XIII; A Light from Heaven
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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 about Edmund Burke; A Genius Reconsidered
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 about Saints and Scholars; Twenty-Five Medieval Portraits
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 about St. Paul
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, black foil spine label, gold foil dust jacket. About-fine book with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor creasing. "LOYOLA HAD TAUGHT THEM: THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOTHING, THE MOVEMENT ALL. THE CHRISTIAN DEPARTS WITHOUT CONSOLATION. LIFE GOES ON" First... More about Soldier of the Church; The Story of Ignatius Loyola
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New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Gift inscription, dated 1982, to free front endpaper of near-fine book, toning and gentle wear to upper edges of dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this authorized biography of Dorothy Day and the... More about Dorothy Day; A Biography
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976. First American edition. Large octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with moderate wear to corners and spine ends. "SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF GOD" AUGUSTINE, PASCAL, BLAKE, KIERKEGAARD, TOLSTOY, BONHOEFFER. First American edition of... More about A Third Testament
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London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. First edition of this extended dialogue between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler, based on the five-episode mini-series for BBC television the previous year. Beautifully illustrated with 24 photographic plates and maps. Opens with... More about Paul, Envoy Extraordinary