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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First British edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Boards bright, tape marks to blank flyleaves, library ink stamp and pencil signature to front flyleaf, short closed tear, minor creasing and edge-wear to original dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONE OF THE GREAT..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Comapny, 1954. Early printing. Tall octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner inkstamp to rear blank flyleaf, small chip, mild creasing to edges of unfaded and unclipped original dust jacket. A lovely copy. "NONE OF THE GREAT THINGS IN HUMAN LIFE SPRINGS FROM THE INTELLECT;..... 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
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: 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