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
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. "THE GREATEST ENGLISH EXPONENT OF THOMISM" First American edition of... More
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
London: The Harvill Press, 1948. First edition. Tall thin octavo, original stiff green front paper wrapper, original glossy dust jacket. Very modest soiling to dust jacket. Nearly-fine condition. "HOWEVER GREATLY THE PHYSICAL MAY INFLUENCE THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF ANY MAN, IT CANNOT CREATE IT" First edition in English of Theodor... More
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
London: Sheed & Ward, 1945. First edition. Twelvemo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "WE SHALL BE SLAVES OF THE ATOM, NOT ITS MASTERS, IF WE CONSENT TO WEAR ITS LIVERY—THE LIVERY OF EXPLOSION AND OF REVOLT" First edition of Ronald Knox's Theology of the Atom Bomb..... More
London and New York: Geoffrey Bles/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. Early edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, minor edge-wear and toning to spine of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. Mid-century American edition of a series of pre-war lectures by Jacques Maritain, an... More
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
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
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
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