Winter 2017: Stella Maris
Westminster: The Newman Press, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original crimson cloth, crimson top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine with "ursuline nuns" written in ink to front pastedown. Dust jacket is near-fine with only modest creasing and rubbing to edges. A near-fine copy. "LOVE IS A MARVELLOUS AND HEAVENLY THING..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951. First edition. Thin quarto (10 inches tall), original cream linen cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. Very gentle edge-wear to top of front board, faint offsetting to free endpapers. A clean and sharp-cornered copy. "SO WE MAY SAY IN A TRUE SENSE THAT..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Very gentle spine lean, light toning to the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. THE LIFE OF BLESSED ROBERT SOUTHWELL First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a...... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of this first biography of the first modern pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait..... More
South Bend and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to top of front panel. Near-fine. "DE MAISTRE ENTERED HISTORY AS THE FOUNDER OF 'ULTRAMONTANISM.' HIS PROPOSALS FOR POLITICAL REFORM..... More
New York: Alba House, 1965. First American edition. Octavo, original red linen boards, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine with short closed tear to top and faint toning to the bottom of dust jacket. About fine. First American edition of this biography of Augustine's formative years, centering on the Confessions..... More
London: David Nutt, 1914. First edition. Small quarto (8 inches tall), original blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Small bookplate and bookseller's label to front pastedown. Gentle spine toning, mild wear to corners and ends, scattered foxing, text block cracked but boards clean, corners sharp, gilt bright. A near-fine..... More
New York: P. J. Kenedy Sons, 1922. First edition. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust wrapper. Ink owner stamp to bottom edge of the text block, toning to spine, two short closed tears and mild soiling to panels of wrapper. A near-fine copy. "IGNATIUS WAS A MYSTIC WHO LOVED..... More
New York: Ridge Press/Odyssey Press, 1964. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 inches tall), original stamped gold cloth. Imperceptible wear to spine ends and corners. A beautiful copy. POPE JOHN XXIII'S "PACEM IN TERRIS" First edition of this elegant illustrated printing of Pope John XXIII's "Pacem in Terris,"..... More
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
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: Chapman and Hall, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Top of boards lightly bumped, else fine, fading to spine of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. AN EVOCATIVE PORTRAIT OF FIFTY YEARS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICISM First edition of Evelyn Waugh's authorized biography of his friend and..... More