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
London: The Catholic Book Club, 1962. Octavo, original red cloth, spine lettered in black, original dust jacket. About Fine. "CHARITY—A SHORT WORD INDEED, BUT WITH ITS MEANING OF PERFECT AND UNALLOYED LOVE IT SUMS UP THE WHOLE OF MAN'S ATTITUDE TO GOD AND HIS CREATURES" Catholic Book Club edition..... 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
New York: Fordham University Press, 1940. First edition. Quarto (10 3/4 inches tall), original red cloth, illustrated cartographical endpapers, uncut, original paper dust wrapper, original lidded paper board box. Short tear to base of wrapper. About-Fine. "SHE BUILT AN ORATORY WITHIN HER HEART WHICH SHE NEVER QUITTED" Splendid first..... More
London and Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1907]. Original gilt-strap decorated purple cloth (5 3/8 inches tall), illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. Gentle toning to spine, faint foxing to endpapers. Near-fine. "WE MUST LOVE WHAT GOD LOVES" Lovely study of Saint Francis de Sales—a "Library of the..... More
London and New York: Scepter, 1977. First edition in English. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. closed tear to upper left of the front panel, toning to the edges of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "I HAVE TO PASS UNNOTICED AND DISAPPEAR, SO THAT JESUS ALONE MAY BE..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First American edition. Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. Dusty top-edge to nearly-fine book, jacket with only mild damp-stain, gentle wear to the spine ends. Very good indeed. "COMMUNIO SANCTORUM" First English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s first book, with a Foreword..... More
Philadelphia: David Mckay Company, 1929. Quarto (11 1/8 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine and front board. Gilt bright, faint toning to spine, slight bumping to upper corners, mild offsetting from plates, ink inscription to blank flyleaf. A near-fine copy. "CHILDREN, THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN WHO..... More
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: Sheed and Ward, 1929. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in blue. Slight toning to spine, cloth boards bright, corners sharp. A near-fine copy. "MORE HAS BECOME A SAINT OF WHOM THE WHOLE OF ENGLAND IS PROUD" First edition of this celebration of then-Blessed Thomas More—including addresses..... 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
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1954. Early edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, several tiny closed tears along edges of bright, clean dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "YOU CALL HIM A DUMB OX; I TELL YOU THAT THE DUMB OX WILL BELLOW SO LOUD THAT HIS..... 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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Very gentle lean to the spine, light toning to the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British Jesuit. Robert Southwell and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth over blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Book fine, with only minor edge-wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy. “MOTHER TERESA’S VISION OF THE STREET, WHICH DROVE HER OUT AMONG THOSE ROTTING WITH DISEASE AND WRACKED..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First edition. Small quarto (9 inches tall), original mauve cloth, spine blocked in pale blue and silver, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, inner jacket flap price-clipped. A near-fine copy. "A CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT. SAINTS ARE NOT MADE BY ACCIDENT" First..... 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
New York: Duffield and Company, 1907. First edition thus. Original decorated paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall), black cloth spine, uncut. Very modest edge-wear to boards. Nearly-fine. "PRAISE BE TO THEE, O LORD, FOR OUR MOTHER THE EARTH" Charming letterpress edition of The Canticle of the Sun, entirely printed in..... More
Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 2005. First edition thus. Octavo, original navy paper boards, ribbon marker, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to edges of dust jacket, book and dust jacket both about-fine. Modern small press edition of The Little Flowers. A smart reprint of the 1915 edition, translated by H...... More
San Francisco: Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards with printed paper labels, uncut, original dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket. Fine book partially unopened, early owner signature, modest creasing to top margins of slightly toned dust jacket. About-fine. "THE CHARACTER..... More
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original half white cloth and black paper boards with printed label, original dust jacket. Mild tanning and offsetting to blank endpapers, gentle shelf-wear to corners, minor bumping to top of boards, small loss to upper margins..... More
Oxford and London: A.R. Mowbray & Co., 1899. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original textured beveled cloth, decorated front board stamped in black, gilt spine. Bookplate, spine toned, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. "YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS THE FRUIT OF FIVE-AND-THIRTY YEARS OF MY WORK IN ONE..... 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 "mutual..... More
St. Meinrad, Indiana: Grail Publications, 1950. Second printing. Octavo, original mottled green cloth, gilt spine and front board, original printed dust wrapper. Faint toning to original wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. 'HEARKEN, O MY SON, TO THE PRECEPTS OF THY MASTER, AND INCLINE THE EAR OF THY HEART" Second printing..... More
San Francisco: Printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1955. Limited edition. Quarto (13 1/8 inches tall), original emerald cloth boards, original blank kraft-paper wrapper. A Fine copy. "YOUR BELOVED PATRICK WAS A NATIVE OF ENGLAND" Limited edition of this debate on the controversy of the origins of St. Patrick—privately..... More