San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1964. Octavo, original blue cloth, colored endpapers, original dust jacket. Book fine, modest toning to unclipped original dust jacket. A handsome copy. "LET HIM WHO HAS EVER HAD HIS PRAYER REJECTED REFUSE TO PRAY TO MARY" (ST. BERNARD) First edition of this extraordinary collection..... More
New York: Random House, [1940]. First edition. Small folio (10 1/4 inches tall), original blind and gilt stamped blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Book fine, bright dust jacket with tape repairs to folds of the verso, gentle edge-wear, minor soiling and creasing to upper margins of both panels..... 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
New York: Philosophical Library, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. Minor blemishes to textblock edges. A nearly-fine copy. CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND OUR BLESSED MOTHER First edition in English of this work of Mariology by two Lebanese Carmelites—a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary..... 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
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
Sevilla: Litografia-Imprenta Gomez Hnos, 1931. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original decorated paper wrappers. Spine toned, soiling to edges of front wrapper, corners creased, interiors clean, plates bright. Housed in a clear, folding wrapper. Very good indeed. "A MAYOR GLORIA DE DIOS Y A MAJOR GLORIA DE SU..... 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. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW, WAS A LADY"..... More
New York: New City Press, 1969. First edition. Small octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Faint crease to bottom of front panel and whisper of toning to edges of back panel of dust jacket. About-fine. "JESUS, IN OUR MIDST" First edition of Chiara Lubich's history of Focolare, published by..... More
New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1947. First edition thus. 24mo. (6 inches tall), original brown pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. 'KNOW, MY SON, MY MUCH BELOVED, THAT I AM THE EVER TRUE VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE TRUE GOD" First edition thus of Fr. George Lee's study of..... 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
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
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original green boards, original dust jacket. Gentle toning and very modest wear to edges of the dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE ROSARY HAS SOMETHING UNIQUE, SWEET, AND DEAR ABOUT IT FOR EACH ONE OF US" First edition of this anthology collecting nearly two..... More
Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1930. First edition. Twelvemo, deckle-edged, handmade paper with watermark, uncut and unbound sheets in two sections each measuring 8 1/2 x 18 inches, each folded to measure 6 x 4 1/2 inches. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Fine. THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES, THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, THE..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1961. First edition. Small folio (10 1/8 inches tall), original half gold and magenta cloth, 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 panel. A...... 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