London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, dark red top edge, original dust jacket. Small owner ink-stamp to front flyleaf, bump to top fore-edge, gentle toning to spine of bright, clean dust jacket. Nearly-fine. "THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPANISH SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY FLOWERED SUDDENLY, AS THOUGH A...... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906. First American edition. Thick octavo (9 1/8 inches tall), original green cloth, gilt spine and front board, uncut edges. One corner slightly bumped, small contemporary ink-stamp to blank flyleaf, several leaves unopened. A nearly-fine copy, uncommon in this condition. "THE MOST ERUDITE MAN..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, red endpapers, original dust jacket. Mild scuffing to front board, early owner signature to free front endpaper. A near fine copy. "THE MULTIPLYING PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE DISORDERS OF AN URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION THAT HAS FOUND EXPRESSION IN DEMORALIZING POVERTY AND..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), original paper boards over brown cloth spine, top edge gilt, uncut, original paper board slipcase. Slipcase worn and split but intact. Fine. "THE HIVE OF SAINT THOMAS SHELTERED GOD AND MAN, MIND AND MATTER, THE..... More
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: The Faith Press, 1973. First edition. Quarto (10 inches tall), original brown cloth, tan endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket. Neat early owner signature to front pastedown, gentle bumping to lower corners, excellent dust jacket with only lightest creasing and spotting. A near-fine copy. "THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN..... More
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. Original beige paper boards (7 1/2 inches tall), printed and illustrated in black. Slight edge-wear and gentle toning to boards. A near-fine copy. THE ANCIENT SHRINES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES First edition—in the original paper boards—recounting Peter Anson's pilgrimage to the ruined, isolated..... More
London: Sheed and Ward, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Contemporary prayer card laid-in to fine book, minor edge-wear, short closed tears, modest loss top spine of bright and unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE RITES TRADITIONALLY CANONIZED BY THE CHURCH AS HER OWN PRAYER..... More
London and St. Louis: Burns & Oates/B. Herder, 1908. Folio (13 1/2 inches tall), original khaki cloth, gilt spine. Slight tanning to endpapers, 1908 Christmas religious inscription, spotting to fore-edges, cloth boards clean, corners sharp. A bright, crisp near-fine copy. "THE CHURCH'S CENTRAL AND ALL-PERVADING RITE" Second—and first illustrated—edition..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Original black cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), gilt and blind-stamped spine and front board, original dust wrapper. Book fine, early owner signature, scarce original wrapper with loss of lower spine but unclipped and complete. An excellent copy. "MOST ENGLISHMEN ARE OUTSIDE THE PAPAL FOLD..... More
New York and London: The Messenger/John Griffin, 1903. First edition. Octavo (9 3/8 inches tall), original gilt green cloth. Gentle wear to upper corners, bumping to lower corners of clean boards, slight crease to corner of map not affecting image. A near-fine copy. "HOW WELL IT IS FOR THE CHRISTIAN..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. Early printing. Large octavo (9 inches tall), original dark red cloth, original dust wrapper. Small Christmas presentation inscription (dated "Xmas 1925") to upper blank flyleaf, spotting to edges and preliminary leaves, mild spine toning, short tears and creasing along top margins of rare original dust..... More
London: Joseph Masters, 1850. Octavo (8 7/8 inches tall), contemporary gilt-paneled vellum, bookseller's ticket, early owner's blind-stamps. Slight bumping, minor soiling to vellum boards. A near-fine copy. THE PRINTED RITUAL BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH USES Unique copy—printed on vellum and bound in vellum—of this important Anglican liturgical bibliography..... More
[Caldey Island, Wales]: Printed by the Community, [1931]. Octavo (8 1/8 inches tall), staple-bound in original decorated paper boards. Faint foxing to preliminary leaves, gentle toning to spine, slight bumping to upper corners, gutter cracked at half title. A near-fine copy. "THE 'ISLE OF SAINTS' AS IT HAS BEEN CALLED..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PREDICAMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAN" First edition of this study of the most prominent Existential thinkers with a special focus on Jean-Paul Satre, Karl Jaspers..... More
Published by the Dean and Chapter, 1948. Small quarto (8 3/4 inches tall, staple-bound in original illustrated wrapper. Gift inscription to a young chorister to half-title, gentle toning to edges, mild spotting to rear wrapper. A near-fine copy. "IN THE QUIRE OF CANTERBURY WE STAND IN THE 'HOLY OF HOLIES..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner gently bumped, mild edge-wear, small closed tear to front to price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST AND THE WEST HAVE AN AFFINITY BETWEEN THEM THAT GOES MUCH..... 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
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Thus. Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges of bright dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "THE NEW NATIONALISM" First edition thus of Herbert Croly's pivotal work on the American experiment, edited and with an Introduction..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1949. Second impression. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Mottling to cloth boards, excellent dust jacket with only a trace of soiling to both panels and faint foxing to the spine panel. A near-fine copy. "THERE MUST BE A RETURN TO UNITY—A SPIRITUAL INTEGRATION OF..... More
London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1908. First edition. Original gilt decorated red cloth (6 1/8 inches tall). Early owner signature, later donation bookplate, small shelf number in white ink to gently toned spine, cracking to text block but gilt bright and corners sharp. A near-fine copy. "THE..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original turquoise cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, only very gentle spine toning to bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nearly-Fine. "AN OVERRIDING AND INESCAPABLE CHOICE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY OR PAGANISM" First book edition collecting three lectures by T.S. Eliot on the relationship..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine. "CULTURE CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY CONSCIOUS—THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO IT THAN WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF; AND IT CANNOT BE PLANNED BECAUSE IT IS ALSO THE UNCONSCIOUS BACKGROUND OF ALL OUR PLANNING" First..... More
Westminster: The Council for Defense of Church Principles, [1943]. First edition. Staple-bound (7 1/4 inches tall) in original printed brown wrappers. Fine. "I AM WRITING AS AN ANGLICAN LAYMAN TO THE LAITY" First edition of T.S. Eliot's argument against a proposed plan to unite the Anglican dioceses in South..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967. First American edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy with only faint toning to spine and upper edge of front panel of the dust jacket. "PIUS XI WAS TOO EXALTED TO BE TOUCHED BY VANITY; AND WITH HIM IT..... More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, touch of foxing to top edge, spine of dust jacket toned, pen slash through price on front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE RIGHTS OF MAN ON EARTH ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE..... More