London: The Medici Society, Ltd., 1922. First edition. Octavo, original gilt blue cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original printed dust jacket. Light foxing to blank endpapers. Mild toning to spine of scarce dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "SHE WAS FILLED WITH DIVINE GRACE IN ALL HER WAYS" First edition of... More
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal/black cloth. Faint toning to front and back panels, tiny closed tears and creasing to upper edges of dust jacket. A nearly-fine book in a near-fine, priced-clipped jacket. "MARY IS EVERYWHERE NOW" First edition of this lyrical photo-essay on the Marian shrine... 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
New York: Philosophical Library, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine. First edition in English of this work portraying the Blessed Virgin Mary as "a luminous point where Moslems and Christians may converge in brotherhood." Mary of the Koran, by the noted Lebanese... 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
London: Sheed and Ward, 1944. Second printing. Small octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends. A lovely copy. "OUR LADY SAID 'YES' FOR THE HUMAN RACE. EACH ONE OF US MUST ECHO THAT YES... More
New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1947. First thus. 12 mo. (6 inches tall), original black pebbled cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "THE MOTHER OF JESUS WAS THERE" First edition thus, with frontispiece illustration, and George Lee's original Foreword, at Duquesne University. First published in 1897 by John Murphy of... 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: Sheed and Ward, 1964. 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?" Early printing of this meditation by the controversial Dominican theologian on the tension between mysteries and the doctrines... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1966. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Smudge at bottom of text block, corner of free-front endpaper is clipped, very faint sticker residue to top of back panel of dust jacket. A bright, near-fine copy. First edition of this analysis, by an... More
London: Vision Press Limited, 1951. Early English translation. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Small owner signature to corner of free endpaper, toned dust jacket with closed tears on either side of the spine ends. Very good indeed. "EACH ONE, FILLED WITH HER OWN SACRED GOOD/USED THE OTHER... 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
London: The Harvill Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to free front endpaper, gentle wear to the lovely dust jacket. "THE CAPACITY TO 'FEEL WITH THE CHURCH' HAS ITS SOURCE IN MARY, AND OTHER CHRISTIANS ONLY REALLY RECEIVE THAT GIFT THROUGH HER"... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, circa 1930. Quarto (11 inches tall). Single leaf of laid paper, deckle edge, watermark in lower right corner, printed on one side in red and black. Faintest of creasing, minute tear to top margin, otherwise bright and fresh. Housed in a cardboard mat. "LOOK DOWN IN... More