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
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "THE READER SHOULD NOT LOOK FOR THE WAR SONGS OF ONE GROUP OF CHRISTIANS WHICH WANTS TO TRIUMPH OVER OTHERS, BUT FOR A STORY OF FAITH ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY" First edition of this fine..... 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
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"... More
New York: Paulist Press, 1988. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Pencil note to front pastedown: "inscribed to Fr. David Bromfield, professor at CUA." Book about-fine with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor edge-wear to upper corners and spine. Very good indeed. First edition of this..... 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 Francisco: Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards with printed paper labels, uncut, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Fine book partially unopened, early owner signature, modest creasing to top margins of slightly toned dust jacket. About-fine. "THE CHARACTER..... 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
San Francisco: Printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1955. Limited edition. Quarto (13 1/8 inches tall), original emerald cloth boards, original blank kraft-paper wrapper. A Fine copy. "YOUR BELOVED PATRICK WAS A NATIVE OF ENGLAND" Limited edition of this debate on the controversy of the origins of St. Patrick—privately..... More
New York: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket, uncut. Trace of speckling to top edge, touch of creasing to the head of the bright clean dust jacket. A splendid copy. "I WAS HUNG UP AGAIN. THE PAIN WAS INTENSE NOW BUT I FELT GREAT CONSOLATION..... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY..... More
St. Louis: Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, [1948]. Staple-bound in original wrappers (7 1/2 inches tall), illustrated front panel, blank back panel. A near-fine copy. "WE CATHOLICS WANT OUR NON-CATHOLIC FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TO KNOW US AS WE REALLY ARE" Knights of Columbus pamphlet presenting the Catholic..... 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
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. "HER LEGACY WAS VISION—A VISION OF ENDING TIME WITH ITS EVIL..... More
Cambridge: At The University Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket, bookplate and early owner signature, a fine book in a clipped dust jacket with faint toning, spotting and tape-repairs to the verso. A handsome copy. "DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT BOOKS AND KNOWLEDGE BUT..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, orignal dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm..... More
London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, green endpapers, original dust jacket. Fine. "AFTER JESUS, PAUL IS THE KEY FIGURE IN THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN STORY" First edition of this extended dialogue on St. Paul between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler. Beautifully illustrated..... More
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1923, 1927. Tall octavo (9 inches tall), original pictorial olive cloth, stamped in black, uncut. Early ink signature (July 1923), mild tanning to blank flyleaves, light wear to still-bright boards. A near-fine copy. "GO OUT AND LOOK FOR JESUS" First..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. First edition. Large octavo (9 3/4 inches tall), original white paper vellum boards, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Book fine with only slight offsetting to blank flyleaves, minor peeling and edge-wear to the jacket. A near-fine copy. "ST. DOMINIC'S ROOTS LAY..... More