London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Very gentle lean to the spine, light toning to the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British Jesuit. Robert Southwell and..... More
Privately Printed, 1967. Limited edition. Octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), stapled in original stiff paper wrappers, printed in red. Faint toning to upper margin, shallow vertical crease to front wrapper. A near-fine copy. "THE APPARATUS OF THE STATE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF CATHOLICISM WAS EXTENSIVE" Limited edition of Charles Fracchia's..... More
London & New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, gilt spine, original dust wrapper. Book fine, slight edge wear to unclipped original wrapper. An excellent copy. "ENGLAND LOOKE UP, THY SOYLE IS STAIND WITH BLOOD / THOU HAST MADE MARTIRS MANY OF THINE OWN"... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, faint spotting to spine crisp, clean dust jacket. An excellent copy. "FOR MANY A LONG YEAR ENGLAND HAD NO CATHOLIC BISHOP" First edition of this history of the eighteenth-century Vicars Apostolic of England by..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First edition. Tall octavo (9 7/8 inches tall), original black cloth, original dust wrapper. Very faint tanning and spotting to endpapers, early owner initials in bottom corner of blank flyleaf, scarce dust jacket with mild wear to corners and ends, toning to spine. A near-fine..... More
New York: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket, uncut. Trace of speckling to top edge, touch of creasing to the head of the bright clean dust jacket. A splendid copy. "I WAS HUNG UP AGAIN. THE PAIN WAS INTENSE NOW BUT I FELT GREAT CONSOLATION..... More
London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt russet morocco, gilt dentelles, patterned gray endpapers with additional patterned flyleaf, all edges gilt. Very gentle edge-wear, minor bumping to still-sharp corners of bright gilt boards. A beautiful copy. First edition of this important..... More
Newport: R.H. Johns Limited, 1953. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, maroon top edge, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. Minor spotting to edges of the text block, modest edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE GOLDEN THREAD OF AN UNDYING AND UNCONQUERABLE FAITH" Scarce first edition of..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition thus. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. A fine book in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. 'THE WHITE-ROBED ARMY OF MARTYRS DO PRAISE THEE" Fine mid-century Burns & Oates edition of Mother Magdalen Taylor's enduring depiction of the English..... More
London: Burns & Oates, [c.1906]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), 8 pages, side-stitched in original blue-grey wrappers, uncut. Interiors fine, faint toning and creasing to original wrappers, interiors Fine. A clean and bright copy. "BY THAT BLOOD YE HOLD IN FEE / THIS EARTH OF ENGLAND; KINGS ARE..... More
London: Hollis and Carter, 1947. Second edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, gilt spine, red top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to front endpaper, mild foxing to original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE VOICE OF CAMPION COMES TO US ACROSS THE CENTURIES AS THOUGH HE WERE WALKING AT..... More