New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First American edition. Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. Dusty top-edge to nearly-fine book, dust jacket with only mild wear to the spine ends. A near-fine copy. First English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s first book, with a Foreword by Eberhard Bethge, one..... More about The Communion of Saints; A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church
Westminster: The Newman Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original mauve cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting and early owner signature to front pastedown and flyleaf, small blemish to top rear panel of largely fresh and clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy.6 "The greatest English exponent of Thomism this century was Frederick C.... More about Contemporary Philosophy; Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism
Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1959. First edition. 12mo., original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower corners of book gently bumped, mild offsetting to gutters of blank endpapers. Near-fine. "THROUGH ALL THESE THIRTY YEARS I HAVE REMAINED CONVINCED THAT ST. AUGUSTINE'S THOUGHT PROVIDES A COMMANDING POSITION FROM WHICH TO JUDGE MY OWN... More about The Modernity of St. Augustine
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Second edition, third printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight lean to spine of near-fine book. dust jacket with only a faint smudge to front panel. Nearly-fine. Early printing of the first translation in English of Kierkegaard's "psychological deliberation" on original sin... More about The Concept of Dread; Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by Walter Lowrie
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952. First British edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle wear to the edges of the dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "LOVE IS THE SUREST CERTAINTY THAT MAN KNOWS; THE ONE IRREFUTABLE, EXISTENTIAL COGITO: I LOVE, THEREFORE I AM; THEREFORE BEING IS... More about Personalism
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, dark top edge, original dust jacket. Lower corners bumped, staining and soiling to spine and rear panel of dust jacket. A very good copy. "FATHER IN HEAVEN!" First edition of LeFevre's reinterpretation of Kierkegaard as a religious thinker. Lefevre... More about The Prayers of Kierkegaard; Edited and with a New Interpretation of His Life and Thought
New York: Herder & Herder, 1968. First English translation. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine book with early owner signature to blank flyleaf, price-clipped dust jacket with only minor wear to the corners and spine ends. A near-fine copy. "A BRILLIANT AND FAR-REACHING INTERPRETATION OF A SINGLE ARTICLE... More about Spirit in the World
New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A near-fine book with a closed tear, minor soiling and slight toning to the spine of the clean and bright yellow and white dust jacket. "MAN IS TENDING MORE AND MORE TO THROW... More about Christianity and Freedom; A Symposium
London: The Harvill Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Very slight spine lean of nearly-fine book, light toning to flap folds and spine. A excellent copy. "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY OF GOD WHAT HE IS" First edition of the English Dominican's meditations on God's... More about God the Unknown; And other Essays
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint toning to spine and front panel of bright, clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "AGAPE LIES AT THE HEART OF ALL BEING" First edition of Frederick Wilhelmsen's engaging attempt to comprehend the meaning of... More about The Metaphysics of Love