Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. First edition. Original blue cloth (7 3/8 inches tall), original dust wrapper. Slight toning to cloth spine, couple of small nicks to scarce original dust wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "ALTHOUGH NOT ALL PHILOSOPHERS ARE GREATER THAN THEIR BEST COMMENTATORS, MOST OF THEM ARE, AND THIS..... More
London: Catholic Truth Society, [n.d.]. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Mild foxing and offsetting to endpapers, intermittent underlining in pencil price-clipped dust jacket but still a handsome copy. "THE 'MOTHER-BOOKS OF ENGLAND,' THE FIRST BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, LEARNING AND EDUCATION" Catholic Oxford and Cambridge actually consists of..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1946. Tall octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original gilt green cloth. Gilt bright, corners sharp, very small religious signature (dated January 1947) on blank flyleaf, four library inkstamps to front and back endpapers, else a crisp copy. FROM THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT "TO THE CATHOLIC COLLEGIANS..... More
Westminster: Dacre Press, 1958. Clare Dawson. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original decorated blue and white cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, original dust jacket with mild toning, small chip to bottom front panel, short closed tear and sticker abrasion to rear panel. A near-fine copy. "IN HIS OWN..... More
London: Burns and Oates Limited, 1961-1966. Eight volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt and blind-stamped, original uniform dust jackets. A nearly-fine set. "NEO-PLATONISM WAS THE LAST BREATH, THE LAST FLOWER, OF ANCIENT PAGAN PHILOSOPHY; BUT IN THE THOUGHT OF ST. AUGUSTINE IT BECAME THE FIRST STAGE OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY"... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Helicon Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. A fine copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. "THE CHURCH, THIS PERFECT SOCIETY, IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL THE LIVING BODY OF CHRIST" First edition of this collection of essays..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with paper spine label, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label, book about-fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket with toning, small stains, and closed tears. Very good indeed. "INTENDED FOR THE STUDENT OF HISTORY SACRED AND SECULAR DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY..... 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
London: Ginn and Company Ltd., 1938. Original limp green cloth (6 5/8 inches tall), gilt titles, cartographic endpapers. Early owner signature to half title, faint rubbing to joints. A nearly-fine copy. "THE MAIN THEME OF THE BIBLE IS THE DEALINGS OF GOD WITH MAN" First edition of this introduction to..... More
Buffalo: Canisius High School, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Owner ink-stamp and signature to blank flyleaf, slight toning to unclipped dust jacket, A near-fine copy. "THESE PAPAL PRINCIPLES FROM THE HIGHEST TEACHING AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH PROVIDE THE SOUNDEST GUIDANCE" First edition of this..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1958. First edition. Small folio (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, short closed tears, moderate wear and creasing to bight, unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "OUR LORD CAME TO DIE" First edition in English of this..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to one corner. Tape repair to the verso of bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WE NEED A NAME FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE EARTH ON..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1972. First edition. Quarto (11 inches tall), original navy cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped front board, blue endpapers, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Book fine, bright unclipped dust jacket with touch of wear to spine ends and corners, short closed tear to blank upper rear panel..... 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
Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1976. First edition. Octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, ink owner signature to half title, closed tear and crease to upper corner of front panel, modest wear to spine ends of bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Very good..... More
St. Louis: Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, [1948]. Staple-bound in original wrappers (7 1/2 inches tall), illustrated front panel, blank back panel. A near-fine copy. "WE CATHOLICS WANT OUR NON-CATHOLIC FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TO KNOW US AS WE REALLY ARE" Knights of Columbus pamphlet presenting the Catholic..... More
Oxford: Alden & Co. Ltd. / Bocardo Press, 1910. First Edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original navy cloth with gilt titles. Small ink presentation inscription, gilt bright, gutter cracked but still firm, very faint wear to spine ends and corners. A near-fine copy. "THE AZURE BINDING OF ETON..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1959. Quarto small folio (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..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1964. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Closed tear and slight edge-wear to upper edges of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THIS BOOK WILL BE ABOUT REVELATION, ABOUT THE COMMUNITY GOD HAS ESTABLISHED, AND ABOUT THE SACRAMENTS THAT CONSTITUTE IT" First American..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original marron cloth, gilt spine and blind-stamped front board, original dust jacket. About-Fine. "THE CATHOLIC FAITH IS NOT DETRIMENTAL TO THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE" First edition of this collection of the accomplishments of Catholics in..... More
London: Art and Book Company, 1896. First edition. Octavo, original illustrated white cloth stamped in black and silver, uncut. Bookplate. Tanning to blank flyleaves, offsetting from bookplate, slight lean to toned spine, mild fading to mottled front board, corners bumped. Very good indeed. "THE IDEAL OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER"... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. Third edition. Two volumes. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt vellum, watered silk endpapers, ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Bookplates, bookseller's ticket, gilt bindings bright and sharp. A near-fine set. "A GROWING PASSION FOR THE WORKS OF ART OF THE MIDDLE..... More
Baltimore: Helicon Press, Inc., 1958. Original decorated wrappers (6 1/2 inches tall) with interior flaps, cartographic endpapers printed in colors. Spine uncreased, wrappers fine. A beautiful copy. "OF SPECIAL APPEAL TO PILGRIMS AND STUDENTS OF WESTERN CULTURE" Charming Schwann Guide to the holy sites of Catholic France—illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink..... More
[Plymouth, Indiana]: n.p., [1951]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), original stiff textured illustrated wrappers. Early owner signature (dated April 1952), A nearly-fine copy. "THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER" First edition of this privately printed guide to the steps to Priestly Ordination--—complete with an evocative illustration to the..... More
London: Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1925. Original staple-bound pictorial green wrappers (6 inches tall). Gentle creasing and slight toning to illustrated wrappers, staples rusted but secure, text clean. Very good indeed. "CHRIST INVITES US TO A BANQUET PROVIDED FOR HIS FRIENDS, A SACRED BANQUET OF WHICH HE IS..... More