Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1959. First edition. 12mo., original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower corners of book gently bumped, mild offsetting to gutters of blank endpapers. Near-fine. "THROUGH ALL THESE THIRTY YEARS I HAVE REMAINED CONVINCED THAT ST. AUGUSTINE'S THOUGHT PROVIDES A COMMANDING POSITION FROM WHICH TO JUDGE MY OWN..... More
Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1985. Limited edition. Folio (11 inches tall), original illustrated gray paper boards, burgundy endpapers. Fine. "ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU STAND, O PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND?" Fine Press limited edition of John Henry Newman's Tract One—one of only 525 copies printed by The..... More
London: The Dropmore Press, 1949. Limited edition. Quarto (10 5/8 inches tall), original brick red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust wrapper, original buff card slipcase with printed paper spine label. Book Fine, light foxing and toning to dust wrapper, slipcase with..... More
London: Sheed and Ward/SPCK, 1967. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Very faint wear to the edges of the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "COR AD COR LOQUITOR" First book edition of the addresses given at the first Oxford Newman Symposium, held in John Henry Newman's old..... More
London: Novello and Company, Limited, 1900. Small folio (10 inches tall), original printed paper boards, gilt burgundy cloth spine. Minor edge-wear, slight spine lean, corners bumped, original price struck through on front board (with publisher's ink stamp) and title page. Original binding and text largely clean. "I AM NEAR TO..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. First edition. Tall octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "HE IS WIDELY LOVED AND REMEMBERED - BY CATHOLICS AND NON-CATHOLICS ALIKE - AS A SAINTLY AND GENTLE FIGURE; YET HIS CONVERSION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME SPARKED OFF ONE OF THE BITTEREST..... More
Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, circa 1914. Original paper boards (6 1/2 inches tall) over cloth spine, gilt spine and front board, ribbon marker, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. A nearly-fine copy. "SOFTLY AND GENTLY, DEAREST SWEET SOUL, / IN MY MOST LOVING ARMS I NOW ENFOLD THEE"... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1946. First edition thus. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine book with owner signature on free front endpaper, dust jacket with chipping to toned spine ends and corners. Very good indeed. "I SOUGHT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD AND CLIMBED THE TOPMOST..... More
London: James Burns, 1848. First edition. Contemporary green cloth (7 inches tall), blind-stamped boards with gilt spine, yellow coated endpapers, uncut. Sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid-down, small Brighton bookseller's ticket, ex-Convent library with two early ink inscriptions to blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "HE SEEMED TO FEEL A...... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Albert Bender, 1939. Limited edition. Folio sheet (15 by 10 1/2 inches), folded once to make four pages. Printed on watermarked paper with title in black with printer's device on the front page, fore-and-bottom edges uncut, text in gilt and black..... More
London: Illustrated News of the World, 1890. Original broadside print (measuring 23 by 16 inches), custom mounted on tabs in a black window mat. Folding crease across center sheet, else Fine. "THEN LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT US A SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST, AND PEACE AT THE LAST"... More