Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. Slight lean to the spine, two short closed tears and mild toning to the spine of the dust jacket. First edition in English of William Weston: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan. The Jesuit missionary William Weston... More
New York and London: Sheed & Ward, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original heather blue cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature on front pastedown, book with tanning to the pastedowns, gentle toning and light wear to spine ends, small loss to upper edges and toning to spine of bright, unclipped... 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 handsome dust jacket. Very good indeed. "PRIEST! TRAITOR!! JESUIT!!!" First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British... More
Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, faint wrinkling to pack panel, very gentle toning to spine of dust jacket. An excellent copy. "CATHOLICS WERE INDEED ROMAN IN THEIR TRADITION, RITUALISTIC IN THEIR DEVOTION, AND ETERNALLY BOUND TO... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with a tiny pin-hole to the spine and modest edge-wear and soiling to still-bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NOW GIANTS WERE UPON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS"... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards. Book fine. 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 WITH PAIN, CAME FROM THE..... 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. First edition of this critical edition of... 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
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original royal blue cloth, original dust jacket. Only slightest wear to book and bright dust jacket. Near-fine. THE "AMERICANIZATION" OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. First edition of this biography of Isaac Hecker by a Paulist, based on Father... 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
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. "THE FIRST GREAT... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First American edition. Octavo, original half brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book is nearly-fine with sharp corners, rare pink dust jacket is stained and torn with loss to lower front panel and spine (but complete with the illustration entirely unaffected). A.... More
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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
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First 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 Muggeridge's appreciation of Mother... More
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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
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1947. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth with mounted labels, cartographic endpapers, uncut, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor creasing to edges of bright and fresh dust jacket. About-fine. "THE APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA" First edition of Repplier's biography of the famed 18th-century... More
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Hong Kong: Catholic Truth Society, 1941. First edition. Octavo, original red brocade silk boards with gilt titling, sewn spine, printed on double-folded leaves, bindery sticker and C.T.S. sticker to bottom of front pastedown. Tiny nick to the top edge of the binding, gentle toning to the edges of front board..... More