New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Worn along lower front edge of near-fine book, minor loss to spine head of mildly toned jacket. "WHAT WOULD HEAVEN BE WITHOUT GOD? WHAT WOULD HEAVEN BE WITHOUT THIS CHURCH?" Mid-century American edition of Karl Adam's influential..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition. Quarto, original paper boards over brown cloth spine, top edge gilt, uncut, original paper slipcase. Slipcase worn and split but intact. Fine. "THE HIVE OF SAINT THOMAS SHELTERED GOD AND MAN, MIND AND MATTER, THE UNIVERSE AND THE ATOM, THE..... More
London: SPCK, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers and verso of the dust jacket flaps. A near-fine copy. THE RULE OF LITTLE GIDDING First edition of this depiction of the spirituality of the Anglican community gathered around the Ferrar family at Little..... More
New York: The Douay Bible House, 1953. Later printing. Octavo, original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt spine, black endpapers, all edges red, original dust jacket, original cardboard box with white printed upper lid. Book fine, bright dust jacket with faint stain to front panel, original box sound with only modest..... More
London: Christian Community Press, [1960]. First edition. Octavo, original side-stitched blue cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth bright and clean, early presentation inscription, gentle spine toning and minor blemishes to unclipped original dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SUN DANCES ON THIS DAY IN JOY FOR A...... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1932. First edition. 12 mo., original brick cloth with blindstamp, illustrated rear endpapers, original dust jacket. Early owner signature (dated year of publication), mild tanning to blank front flyleaf, toning and creasing to ends of jacket. Very good indeed. "DANTE, TO ENGLISH-READING CATHOLICS, IS A NEGLECTED..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "CULTURE CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY CONSCIOUS—THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO IT THAN WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF; AND IT CANNOT BE PLANNED BECAUSE IT IS ALSO THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND OF ALL OUR PLANNING" First..... More
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Seabury Press, 1961. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, dust jacket with toned spine, chip to lower front corner. "EVERY PARISH MUST BE A CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WHERE ONE CAN EXPECT TO FIND AN UNDERSTANDING AND LOVING RECEPTION" First edition of Bishop Appleton Lawrence's valuable..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge, minimal edge-wear, vertical slice to center of front panel, crease to front flap of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PRESENT STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO REPAY A DEBT TO..... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth stamped in gold and silver. Lower corner bumped, previous owner marks to endpapers inked over in black, bright cloth boards and dust jacket with only very gentle wear to corners and spine ends. An excellent..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Ink notes to rear flyleaf of about-fine book, moderate toning and soiling to top rear panel of still bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WITH ALL THE STRENGTH OF HIS FAITH, AND ALL THE POWER OF..... More
Dickinson, Texas: The Angelus Press, 1985. Octavo pamphlet, original stapled pictorial wrappers. Gentle crease to rear corner of bright, clean original wrappers. Nearly-fine. AD ORIENTEM ("TOWARD THE EAST") Second printing of Michael Davies' affirmation of the traditional Roman liturgy, enlarged to assert that "no legal barrier exists, or has existed..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1959. Quarto (10 inches tall) original gray cloth, gray endpapers, gray top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner signature and bookseller's stamp to blank flyleaf, toned spine, browning to laminated edges on verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "MAY THIS WORK CONTINUE..... 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
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1976. Second printing. Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature on front free endpaper. Mild soiling to cloth and minor edge-wear and toning to spine of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I PARTICULARLY WANT TO REACH, AND OPEN UP NEW, HOPEFUL..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First American edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Small abrasion to top corner of front pastedown, creasing to corners and ends of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "CATHOLICISM IS NOT JUST A RELIGION: IT IS A COUNTRY OF THE HEART AND OF..... More
Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1941. First edition. Folio (13 inches tall), original half burlap over green paper boards with mounted illustration, original dust jacket. Light spotting to excellent dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE OLD MUSIC REMAINS, TO BE SUNG AGAIN WITH REVERENCE, AND TO TOUCH OUR MATTER-OF-FACT LIVES..... More
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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Extremely faint marginal pencil marks in the earliest sections, price sticker on front flap of dust jacket. "PERHAPS NO QUESTION, EXCEPT THE PROBLEM OF GOD, SO OBSESSED AUGUSTINE AS THE ISSUE OF TIME, WITH..... More
London: Burns & Oates/Anthony Clarke Books, 1964. Early edition. 16mo. (6 5/8 inches tall), original black leatherette with gilt spine titling, original gold dust jacket. Paper label pasted at bottom of title page, a fine book in a price-clipped, nearly-fine dust jacket. "THIS BOOK HAS HAD FAITHFUL FRIENDS THROUGH TWO..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original sage cloth, dark green top edge, original dust jacket. Slight toning to book and dust jacket. A near-fine copy. A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF MID-CENTURY CATHOLIC THOUGHT First edition collecting essays in honor of Father Walter Farrell—a central figure in..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. Limited edition. Quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards, gilt red morocco spine, original plain white paper dust wrapper titled in ink. Fine. "A VERY IMPORTANT STEP IN THE TRANSMISSION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE TO OUR TIME" Limited first edition..... More
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924. First edition. Tall octavo (10 inches tall), original black cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust jacket. Book nearly-fine, rare dust jacket with minor foxing on the front panel and moderate foxing on the back panel. A splendid copy. First edition of this two-part..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original pale blue cloth, original dust jacket. Gentle toning to the spine and edges of the boards, very modest edge-wear to the dust jacket. A bright, near-fine copy. "MANY WINDOWS HAVE BEEN OPENED FOR US TO SEE INTO THE CENTER BUT..... More
Chicago: Regnery, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (9 3/4 inches tall), original white paper boards with gilt papal arms, original dust jacket. Offsetting to blank flyleaves, light edge-wear to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "EVEN DURING HIS LIFETIME LEGENDS BEGAN TO GROW AROUND HIM" First American edition of this..... More