[New Haven]: [Yale University Press], [1920]. Small quarto (10 1/8 inches tall), stitched in original soft blue wrappers, printed in black. Slight creasing and chipping to upper edges of wrapper, else a bright, fresh copy. Nearly-fine. "FOR CENTURIES I BROUGHT YOU ALL MY CARES / AND VEXED YOU WITH THE..... More
Paterson, New Jersey: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original stamped blue cloth, decorated endpapers, original dust jacket. Book near-fine, modest creasing and edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "MEXICO IS A LAND WITH DEEP AND WIDESPREAD DEVOTION TO MARY" First edition of this lovely..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), sewn in original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Ex-Franciscan library, partial bookplate on endpaper, very minor wear to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. "MARY'S SOUL IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN GOD'S CREATION" First edition of..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), original cloth spine, gray paper boards, original dust wrapper. Book about-fine, very good original wrapper re-margined and made complete. A wonderful copy. "LEND ME, O LEND ME / THE TERRORS OF THAT SOUND, / THAT ITS MUSIC MAY..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1926. Limited edition. Folio (12 1/8 inches tall), original illustrated paper boards, gray cloth spine, uncut, original dust wrapper. Very minor edge-wear to boards and wrapper. About-Fine. "MAIDEN MOST MEEK AND HEAVENLY QUEEN / ROSES, LO, I HAVE CULLED FIFTEEN" Limited edition, one of only 100 copies..... More
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1946. First edition. Original mauve cloth (7 1/2 inches tall), gilt spine, separate folding map (7 3/8 by 9 7/8 inches). Early owner signature to blank flyleaf, gentle bumping to corner, slight toning to bright spine, two fold lines to map, closed tear along left..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First edition thus. Octavo, original decorated orange cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner book label at bottom of front pastedown, partial splitting to inner paper hinge, cloth faded at edges, offsetting to rear endpapers, toning to spine and chipping to corners of dust jacket. A...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original lime green cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine, very slight edge-wear, minor chipping to spine ends of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW..... More
New York: New City Press, 1969. First. Small octavo (7 1/4 inches tall), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Faint crease to bottom of front panel, slight toning to back panel of dust jacket. About-Fine. "JESUS, IN OUR MIDST" First edition of Chiara Lubich's history of Focolare, published by the..... More
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1956. First edition. 12 mo. (7 3/4 inches tall), original pale blue cloth, original dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of bright gilt boards, gentle creasing to spine head of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE STAR OF THE SEA—WHO BROUGHT THE LIGHT..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Very gentle bumping to two corners, clean dust jacket with very little toning. Nearly-fine. "WHY DID GOD CHOOSE MARY?" First edition of this meditation by the controversial Dominican theologian on the tension between mysteries and..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. Tall octavo (9 3/5 inches tall), half black cloth spine with device in silver, green cloth boards, yellow endpapers, all edges yellow, original dust jacket. About-fine book, faint toning to unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "LOOK UP AT THE STAR..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1951. First edition. 12 mo. (7 3/8 inches tall), original gilt black cloth, original dust jacket. Faint tanning to blank flyleaf, gentle toning to jacket, else about Fine. "AH, THE SAVIOR IN HER STILL WAS BUD / BUT IN HER COUSIN'S WOMB, THE BAPTIST COULD /..... More
London: Lee Warner / The Medici Society, 1912. Limited edition. Large quarto (12 inches tall), original beveled vellum boards, gilt spine and front board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, silk ribbon marker. Very mild soiling to vellum boards. A nearly-fine copy. "WE OWE A DEBT TO MRS MEYNELL AND..... More
Ditchling: Pepler & Sewell / S. Dominic's Press, 1934. Limited edition. Octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), original unbleached coarse linen boards, printed in red-and-black, uncut. Ink inscription to blank flyleaf. About Fine. "THE DELIVERANCE OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE BARBARIANS" Limited edition of the Akathistos Hymn—this copy belonged to Father..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1961. First edition. Small folio (10 1/8 inches tall), original half gold and magenta cloth, charcoal endpapers, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends, two closed tears, a small chip and gentle creasing to the base of the back..... More
[Norfolk]: College of the Guardians of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham, [1938]. Second printing. Octavo (8 5/8 inches tall), staple-bound in original brown paper wrappers. Modest rusting to staples, gentle creasing along fore-edge, faint blemish to blank rear wrapper. A near-fine copy. "ARE THESE FOUNDATIONS THOSE OF THE..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brick red cloth with paper spine label, uncut. Upper front corner bumped, scattered foxing to edges of the text block, gentle toning, creasing to spine ends of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE CATHOLIC DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED..... More