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
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 MAY BE..... 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
San Marino: The Huntngton Library. Large octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplates, penciled call number to blank flyleaf, neat tape reinforcement to verso of unclipped jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "NOW LET US CALL THE ROLL OF FAMOUS MEN THAT WERE OUR FATHERS LONG AGO" (ECCLESIASTES) First edition of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original mustard cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Ink remainder marks to top and bottom edges, 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 ABOUT..... 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
New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1939. First American edition. Octavo, original burnt orange cloth, bottom edge uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with small creased tear to top rear panel, very faint toning to spine and edges. A handsome copy. "THE HEAVENLY SECRETS OPENED UPON THEM, AND THERE..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original lime green cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine, very slight edge-wear, minor chipping to spine ends of bright dust jacket. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW, WAS A LADY"..... 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
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1963. First edition. Octavo, original gilt-decorated black cloth, illustrated endpapers, red top edge, original dust jacket. About-fine in an unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends and a small abrasion. "HE STANDS THUS BEFORE THE WORLD, ARMS OPEN WIDE" First edition of..... 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