Autumn 2016. All Souls
Scribner's, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookseller's label. Toning to spine of dust jacket, crease and closed tear to top panel of jacket. About-fine. THE "CATHOLIC MOMENT" IN AMERICAN LETTERS First edition of this mid-century history of the modern American novel, from a...... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's..... More
Boston: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1966. Second printing. Large octavo, original half red cloth over black cloth spine, original dust jacket. About fine. "I EXAMINE THE IDEAS AS THEY DEVELOPED-NOT ABSTRACTLY, BUT IN THE MINDS OF DISTINCT INDIVIDUALS. THE DOMINANT FIGURES ARE FEW, INDEED PERHAPS ONLY ONE: ST. AUGUSTINE"... More
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped spine. "I..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First American edition. Octavo, original tan cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Staining to joints and hinges of book, wear to spine ends of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "FOR JIM POWERS/WITH WARM REGARDS/FROM/EVELYN WAUGH" First American edition of Waugh's historical novel, published in..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1983. Later edition. Octavo, original pale green boards over brown cloth, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, gentle bump to top corner. An about-fine copy. First printing of this comprehensive critical edition of William Butler Yeats's poems, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Authorized by Anne and..... More