New York: The Century Co., 1931. Oblong folio (10 by 13 inches), original decorated cream cloth, colored endpapers, all edges red. A near-fine copy. "OPEN THIS BOOK WITH REVERENCE, MY DEAR CHILDREN, IN HONOUR OF THE HUMBLE PEASANT GIRL WHO IS THE PATRONESS OF FRANCE" Early American edition of this large..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Very gentle lean to the spine, light toning to the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British Jesuit. Robert Southwell and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First edition. Small quarto (9 inches tall), original mauve cloth, spine blocked in pale blue and silver, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, inner jacket flap price-clipped. A near-fine copy. "A CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT. SAINTS ARE NOT MADE BY ACCIDENT"... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. Octavo, black cloth, gray boards, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, closed tear to back panel, gentle crease to rear flap of clean, unclipped dust jacket. "NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PERFORM THE MOST PAINFUL ACT OF LOVE THAT HAS EVER BEEN PERFORMED" Second..... 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
London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt russet morocco, gilt dentelles, patterned gray endpapers with additional patterned flyleaf, all edges gilt. Very gentle edge-wear, minor bumping to still-sharp corners of bright gilt boards. A beautiful copy. First edition of this important..... More
London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1895. Octavo, original blue cloth. Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, ex-seminary library: call numbers to spine, ink stamps, card pocket to rear endpaper, slight lean to spine, marginal spotting to text. A bright, sharp-cornered copy. Very good indeed. "A DEED OF..... More
n.d. Single card (8 7/8 inches tall), central engraved portrait set in an incised engraved border, both mounted within a slender double frame in red, with pencil caption to lower margin. A nearly fine piece of ephemera. "EVEN WHEN YOU SUFFER SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE, YOU ARE BLESSED"..... More
London: Burns and Oates, 1963. First edition. Quarto (11 3/4 inches tall), original dark red beveled cloth boards with gilt vignette, pink endpapers, dark red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's ticket. Gentle bumping to rear corners, faint tape mark to blank flyleaves, touch of crimping to spine..... More
London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. "AFTER JESUS, PAUL IS THE KEY FIGURE IN THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN STORY" First edition of this extended dialogue on St. Pual between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler. Based on the five-episode BBC Television..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition thus. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. A fine book in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. 'THE WHITE-ROBED ARMY OF MARTYRS DO PRAISE THEE" Fine mid-century Burns & Oates edition of Mother Magdalen Taylor's enduring depiction of the English Catholics martyred..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1904. Oblong (6 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches), staple-bound in original illustrated gilt paper boards, red cloth spine. Owner inkstamp to corner blank flyleaf, very gentle wear and soiling to original decorated boards. Very good indeed. "INTO THY HANDS, O LORD, INTO THY HANDS" Illustrated..... More
New York: Random House, 1962. First American edition. Octavo, original paper boards, black cloth spine, blue top-edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Fine. "FRIEND, BE NOT AFRAID OF YOUR OFFICE. YOU SEND ME TO GOD" First American edition of Robert Bolt's classic drama about the Martyrdom of Thomas More—published a year..... More
London: Burns & Oates, [c.1906]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), 8 pages, side-stitched in original blue-grey wrappers, uncut. Interiors fine, faint toning and creasing to original wrappers, interiors Fine. A clean and bright copy. "BY THAT BLOOD YE HOLD IN FEE / THIS EARTH OF ENGLAND; KINGS ARE..... More