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 about Chronicles of Little Gidding
New York and London: Seabury Press/Geoffrey Chapman, 1983. First edition. Three volumes. Small folio, original tan, green, and blue cloth, original dust jackets. Volume III with price sticker on inside flap of the dust jacket. A fine set. "EACH ONE OF US HAS HIS OWN GIFTS, HIS OWN MEANS AND... More about I Believe in the Holy Spirit; The Experience of the Spirit, Lord and Giver of Life, The River of...
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Book about fine, small chip to top spine of bright dust jacket, not affecting decoration. A lovely copy. "CHRISTMAS MEANS CHRIST'S MASS. BUT THE PROTESTANT REVOLT HAS DENIED THE TRUE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. IT... More about Spiritual Steps to Christmas
New York: Harcourt Brace, 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 American edition, published... More about Notes towards the Definition of Culture
St. Louis: B Herder Book Company, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only minor rubbing to front panel, creasing and closed tear to back panel. A near-fine copy. First edition of Garrigou-Lagrange's work on Aquinas, a commentary on the first section... More about Beatitude; A Commentary of St. Thomas' Theological Summa
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 about Sources of Renewal; The Implementation of the Second Vatican Council
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 about You are the Future (with) I Believe in Youth; To the Young People of the World
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 about Mission to France; Memoirs of a Nuncio 1944-1953
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 about Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration
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 about The Legal Status of the Tridentine Mass
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd, 1932. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original beveled gilt black cloth, red top edge. Bookplate. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Penciled initials (dated 1934), faint tanning to blank flyleaves, gilt bright, corners sharp, small puckered spot to upper front... More about The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described
London: Charles Dolman, 1850. First edition. Octavo (7 3/8 inches tall). Original purple cloth with gilt spine and blind-stamped papal arms, coated yellow endpapers, uncut. Ex-library with bookplate and shelf number to front pastedown, boards largely toned to brown, scattered foxing, corners bumped, edges of the text block darkened, expertly... More about The Pope; Considered in his relations with the Church, Temporal Sovereignties, Separated...
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 about The Desolate City; Revolution in the Catholic Church
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 about Mary in Protestant and Catholic Theology
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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 about The Mystery of Continuity; Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First edition. Twelvemo (7 1/2 inches tall), orignal blue cloth gilt. Faint tanning and spotting to endpapers, two pencil annotations to title page, minor bump to lower right corner, else a bright, nearly-fine copy. "S. THOMAS WAS THUS THE TRUE MODERNIST OF... More about The Programme of Modernism; A Reply to the Encyclical of Pius X
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 about Devotions for Holy Communion; Revised and Arranged by Hubert McEvoy, S.J
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958. First edition. Small folio (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "INTROÏBO AD ALTARE DEI" First edition in English of this pictorial narrative of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as celebrated by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen... More about This is the Mass
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 about Adrian Fortescue; A Memoir
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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 about Church and World
New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc., 1967. Second printing. Octavo, original silver blue cloth, original dust jacket. Corners of book slightly bumped, light edge-wear, closed tear, and shallow scoring to dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE MOST POWERFUL CARDINAL IN THE ROMAN CURIA HAD BEEN SILENCED, AND THE COUNCIL FATHERS CLAPPED... More about The Rhine Flows into the Tiber; The Unknown Council