Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Limited edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original gilt calf spine, marbled paper boards, vellum corner tips, uncut. Morocco bookplate. Housed in a custom brown cloth chemise and morocco slipcase. Very minor soiling to bright boards. Fine. Superb limited edition of the Venerable Bede's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Quarto (11 5/8 inches tall), original silver-stamped vellum with yapped fore-edges, top edge silver, uncut, original dust wrapper. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase (lacking the original paper board slipcase) with paper spine label from the original slipcase laid-down on the cloth spine, original..... More
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Limited, 1924. First edition thus. Thick octavo (9 inches tall), original blue beveled cloth boards, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "CATHOLICS OF BOTH SEXES THAT HAVE SUFFERED DEATH IN ENGLAND ON RELIGIOUS ACCOUNTS FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD" Valuable "New Edition" of Bishop..... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of The Little Flower, 1932. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original brown and black cloth lettered in silver. Very gentle wear to black panel of front board. About-fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS AND THESE TOO..... 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
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, 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" Second..... 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
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: 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
Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle spotting to the text, slight lean to the spine, two short closed tears and mild toning to the spine of the original dust jacket. "CATHOLICS NOW SAW THEIR OWN COUNTRY, THE COUNTRY OF THEIR BIRTH..... 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
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. First edition of..... 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
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 Muggeridge's lovely..... 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
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, 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 ATLANTIC COAST KNOWS LITTLE BUT HIS NAME, AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN THAT; BUT..... More