San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1926. Limited edition. Small quarto (6 x 7 1/2 inches), original vellum binding. Bookplate, printed card laid-in. Slight toning and wear to spine but title lettering still visible. A beautiful copy. Splendid limited edition of Valenti Angelo's The Book of Ruth, a notable achievement by... More about The Book of Ruth
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1931. First American edition. Folio (13 1/2 inches tall), original brown gilt cloth boards, paper portfolio with 28 loose prints, separate text perfect bound in stiff paper wrappers. Cloth boards, paper portfolio and prints, wrappered text, all complete, clean and about-fine. "ST... More about Giotto — The Legend of St. Francis as Depicted in the Assisi Frescoes
London, Edinburgh, and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, circa 1870. 12 mo. (4 1/2 inches tall), contemporary decorated varnished wooden boards over a gilt maroon morocco spine, blue ribbon marker, owner signatures to blank flyleaf, all edges gilt. An about-fine copy. Pocket-size Victorian New Testament published by Thomas Nelson... More about The New Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 inches tall), original cloth spine, gray paper boards, original dust wrapper. Book about-fine, very good original wrapper re-margined and made complete. A wonderful copy. "LEND ME, O LEND ME / THE TERRORS OF THAT SOUND, / THAT ITS MUSIC MAY... More about The Mistress of Vision; Together with a Commentary by the Rev. John O'Connor S.T.P. and with a...
New York: The Press of Valenti Angelo, 1951. Limited edition. Large slim octavo (10 1/4 inches tall), original stiff illustrated wrappers, original cream printed dust wrapper, original glassine dust jacket. Chipping to fragile original glassine. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. A nearly-fine copy. "HERE BEGIN THE PRAISES OF... More about The Canticle of the Sun
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/2 inches tall), contemporary three-quarter brick red morocco, patterned boards, black satin ribbon marker, original stiff pictorial wrappers. About fine. "THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM POSSESSES WHAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF ERIC GILL'S WORK IN EXISTENCE"... More about The Engraved Work of Eric Gill
Press of Reuben Pearson, 1948. Limited edition. Broadside, single leaf of tan wove paper (10 inches tall), mounted on stiff paper board in original shrinkwrap, very faint wear to upper right corner, slight blemish to lower right corner, not affecting text. 'FELIX RANDAL, THE FARRIER, O HE IS DEAD THEN?"... More about Felix Randal
London: Chatto & Windus, 1911. First edition. Thin quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), contemporary full blue calf, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Fine. "REJOICE AND BE GLAD, BECAUSE GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN" First edition of Alberto Sangorski's ornate illuminated manuscript rendering of the Sermon on the Mount... More about The Sermon on the Mount
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First edition. Original stiff card sheet (11 1/2 by 8 inches) folded into three panels. A nearly-fine copy with some gentle spotting and finger-soiling to blank rear panel. "WHY SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? / THE LORD IS RISEN, AS HE SAID" First edition of... More about The Story of Adam and Christ; The verses written by Dorothy L. Sayers - The window painted by...
Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1930. First edition. Twelvemo, deckle-edged, handmade paper with watermark, uncut and unbound sheets in two sections each measuring 8 1/2 x 18 inches, each folded to measure 6 x 4 1/2 inches. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Fine. THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES, THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, THE... More about A Little Rosary
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. Limited edition. Folio (10 7/8 inches tall), marbled boards over a half cloth spine. printed paper spine label, uncut. Sharp corners, fully intact paper spine label. Very modest wear and soiling to original boards. A nearly-fine copy. "HIS SPIRIT WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE... More about A Certain Young Man of Assisi
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1916. First edition. Small octavo, disbound, conjugate frontispiece and title-page, retaining deckle-edges, each leaf measuring 7 3/8 inches tall. Original tissue-guard professionally removed, housed in a custom black double-window mat, measuring 9 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches. Fine. "THEY SAILED FORTH IN... More about S. Brendan the Voyager and His Mythic Quest