London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, dark red top edge, original dust jacket. Small owner inkstamp 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
London: Collins, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. A fine book, slight wear to fore-edges, mild toning to spine and upper front panel of unclipped original jacket. An excellent copy. "I, CATHERINE, SERVANT AND SLAVE OF THE SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST, WRITE TO YOU..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. First edition. Tall octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), sewn in original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Ex-Franciscan library, partial bookplate on endpaper, very minor wear to bright and clean price-clipped dust jacket. "MARY'S SOUL IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN GOD'S CREATION" First edition of..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with paper spine label, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label, book about-fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket with toning, small stains, and closed tears. Very good indeed. "INTENDED FOR THE STUDENT OF HISTORY SACRED AND SECULAR DURING THE EIGHTH CENTURY..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards. Book fine. Minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. First edition of Eileen Egan's intimate portrait of Mother Teresa. In the original dust jacket with David Tamura's portrait. Eileen Egan was perhaps..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1894. Second edition. Contemporary crushed red morocco (6 1/2 inches tall), gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Early owner inscription (August 1894) to blank flyleaf, very light wear to binding, else Fine. "DEATH IS THE CROWN OF LIFE" Second edition of this popular literary anthology of..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1934. Small quarto (8 1/4 inches tall), original blind-stamped red cloth illustrated in black, red top edge, original dust jacket. MInor wear to jacket. A near-fine copy. "THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SPRING OF MERCY IN MANKIND" First edition of these legends of the..... 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" First..... More
London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1915. Early printing. Octavo, stiff card glued in original dust wrapper, printed in red and black with mounted color illustration. Christmas 1916 gift inscription, faint wear to corners, mild toning to spine and upper front wrapper. A near-fine copy. "MARY, IN HERSELF..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1955. First edition. 12 mo. original brown cloth spine lettered in white, original dust jacket. About-fine book, short closed tear to bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. An exceptional copy. 'THE WORLD'S SORROW, WITH WHICH I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OBSESSED...IS ONLY A SHADOW..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1923]. First edition. 24mo. (7 inches tall), original gilt and blind-stamped purple cloth, all edges gilt. A fresh, nearly-fine copy. "THE WORKINGS OF THE MIND OF THE CHURCH" Lovely first edition of Lady Lovat's meditations on the Holy Days and Feast Days of the..... More
New York: New City Press, 1969. First. Small octavo (7 1/4 inches tall), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Faint crease to bottom of front panel, slight toning to back panel of dust jacket. About-Fine. "JESUS, IN OUR MIDST" First edition of Chiara Lubich's history of Focolare, published by the..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Original red cloth (7 5/8 iches tall), original dust jacket. Tape repair to verso ends of mildly toned spine. A nearly-fine copy. "THE FIRST AND THE LAST THING THAT CHAUCER WROTE WAS PRAYER. IT FINDS ITS PROPER PLACE IN WORKS BETWEEN" First..... More
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1956. First edition. 12 mo. (7 3/4 inches tall), original pale blue cloth, original dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of bright gilt boards, gentle creasing to spine head of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE STAR OF THE SEA—WHO BROUGHT THE LIGHT..... More
London: Art and Book Company, 1896. First edition. Octavo, original illustrated white cloth stamped in black and silver, uncut. Bookplate. Tanning to blank flyleaves, offsetting from bookplate, slight lean to toned spine, mild fading to mottled front board, corners bumped. Very good indeed. Rare first edition of the prolific English..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. Third edition. Two volumes. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), contemporary gilt vellum, watered silk endpapers, ribbon markers, all edges gilt. Bookplates, bookseller's ticket, gilt bindings bright and sharp. A near-fine set. "A GROWING PASSION FOR THE WORKS OF ART OF THE MIDDLE..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First American edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. Small abrasion to top corner of front pastedown, creasing to corners and ends of bright, unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "CATHOLICISM IS NOT JUST A RELIGION: IT IS A COUNTRY OF THE HEART..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's..... More
New York: The Museum Press, 1939. Quarto (10 inches tall) booklet, four leaves sewn, self-title with single page of text. Bookplate. Some light spotting and marginal toning to first page. Very good indeed. "GOD'S HAND WAS CARVING LETTERS INTO THE ROCKS WHEN HE GAVE THE LAW TO HIS PEOPLE" Museum..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Touch of foxing to fore-edges. A nearly-fine copy. "THE TRUE LIKENESS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR WILL BE PAINTED BY HERSELF, A...... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original green paper boards, silver and gilt blue cloth spine, yellow endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle bump to upper corner, faint offsetting to colored flyleaves, slight creasing to inner flap, spotting to rear flap. A...... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915. Original navy cloth (7 7/8 inches tall), gilt decorated spine and front board, top edge gilt. A nearly-fine copy. "ROBERT HUGH BENSON HAS BEEN APTLY COMPARED TO A METEOR WHICH FLASHES ATHWART THE SKY, CONSUMING ITSELF BY ITS OWN PACE" First edition of Olive Katharine..... More
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original heather gray cloth, red top stain, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with academic owner signature, dated 1953, to corner of free front endpaper and scattered notes to rear endpapers. Very good dust jacket with toned, stained, and chipped spine. "I..... More
London: Lee Warner / The Medici Society, 1912. Limited edition. Large quarto (12 inches tall), original beveled vellum boards, gilt spine and front board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, silk ribbon marker. Very mild soiling to vellum boards. A nearly-fine copy. "WE OWE A DEBT TO MRS MEYNELL AND..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. Neat verso reinforcement to corners and ends of unclipped original jacket. A near-fine copy. "LET THE CHURCH REMEMBER THIS: THAT EVERY MAKER AND WORKER IS CALLED TO SERVE GOD IN HIS PROFESSION—NOT OUTSIDE IT"..... More