Summer 2017: Santa Monica
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "THE PRIMARY CHANNEL OF TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE IS THE FAMILY" First American edition demonstrating T.S. Eliot's continued resolve, begun in The Ideal of a Christian Society (1939), to define and defend Western culture. One..... More
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to rear upper corner and base of the spine. A near-fine copy. First American edition of this composite biography, a mythologizing celebration of the four Knox Brothers, published in the same year..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, black foil spine label, gold foil dust jacket. About-fine book with a near-fine dust jacket with only minor creasing. "LOYOLA HAD TAUGHT THEM: THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOTHING, THE COMPANY IS ALL. THE CHRISTIAN DEPARTS WITHOUT CONSOLATION"... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal grey cloth, original dust jacket. Slight creasing to upper front panel of the dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE FRANCISCAN BASILICA AT ASSISI IS MORE THAN THE SHRINE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF MEDIEVAL SAINTS: IT IS NO LESS THE CRADLE..... More