Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. First edition. Folio, original blue cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. "THE INTERACTION OF BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST DURING THE PERIOD OF THEIR CLOSEST CONTACT" First edition of this catalogue surveying the illuminated miniatures produced in the Crusader Kingdoms in the Holy Land during the twelfth... More about Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
New York: Fordham University Press, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner of book gently bumped, mild overall edge-wear and small closed tear to front to dust jacket. A neat, clean copy. First edition in English of Congar's history of the rupture between Rome... More about After Nine Hundred Years; The Background of the Schism Between the Eastern and Western Churches
London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, red top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with a tiny pin-hole to the spine and modest edge-wear and soiling to still-bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NOW GIANTS WERE UPON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS"... More about Generation of Giants; The Story of the Jesuits in China in the last Decades of the Ming Dynasty
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London: Macmillan, 1954. Later edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to both free endpapers of near-fine book, creasing and minor edge wear to very good dust jacket. A handsome copy of a classic text. "TO ISIS IN HER LATER CHARACTER OF PATRONESS OF MARINERS THE VIRGIN MARY... More about The Golden Bough; A Study in Magic and Religion
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 about Mary of the Koran; A Meeting Point between Christianity and Islam
London: Sheed & Ward, 1944. First edition. Tall octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint tanning to free front endpaper, front corners gently bumped, dust jacket with modest soiling to back panel and mild wear along top edges. Very good indeed. "RUSSIA, IN SPITE OF THE SCHISM, IS... More about Soul of Russia
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936. First edition. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book is fine, owner signature, dated July 1944, in red pencil to free front endpaper, chipping to spine ends, crease and closed tear to the base of the front panel of the dust jacket... More about Brotherhood Economics
London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book fine, very mild soiling and edge-wear to bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS... More about Non-Violence; A Christian Interpretation
Oxford and London: John Henry Parker/F. and J. Rivington, 1845-1881. Collected edition. Forty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter vellum, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing to endpapers but text generally quite clean, occasional mild soiling to bright vellum bindings, one volume with expert repair to corner. Sturdy, neat, and clean..... More about A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church; Anterior to the Division of the East and the West
New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A near-fine book with a closed tear, minor soiling and slight toning to the spine of the clean and bright yellow and white dust jacket. "MAN IS TENDING MORE AND MORE TO THROW... More about Christianity and Freedom; A Symposium
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
London: John Murray, 1958. Third edition. Small octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with offsetting and bookseller notation in pencil to endpapers, small circular price-sticker residue to front panel of bright dust jacket. Hard to find in this condition. "FOR THE TRUTH IS THAT IN ZEN AS... More about The Spirit of Zen; A Way of Life Work and Art in the Far East