St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo, original half white cloth and black paper boards with printed label, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, gentle shelf-wear to corners, minor bumping to top of boards, loss to upper margins of dust jacket, not affecting text. Very good... 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
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "ESPOUSING LADY POVERTY" First edition of Bishop's life of "Il Poverello," published shortly after Bishop's death in 1973. Bishop was professor emeritus and curator of the Dante and Petrarch Collections of Cornell University. "Francis... 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, dust jacket with only mild wear to the spine ends. A near-fine copy. First English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s first book, with a Foreword by Eberhard Bethge, one..... 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
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1949. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Dust jacket with several closed tears, creases and small chips. Very good indeed. "BEFORE ALL ELSE PRAYER MUST PERMEATE OUR ENTIRE LIFE, TAKEN AS A WHOLE AND IN ALL ITS DETAILS. BEFORE ALL ELSE" First... More
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. First edition. Quarto, original charcoal/black cloth. Faint toning to front and back panels, tiny closed tears and creasing to upper edges of dust jacket. A nearly-fine book in a near-fine, priced-clipped jacket. "MARY IS EVERYWHERE NOW" First edition of this lyrical photo-essay on the Marian shrine... More
1929: Sheed & Ward, London. First edition. Octavo, original paper boards over cloth spine, original dust jacket. Top edge of the book is slightly dusty, mild offsetting to gutters and early owner signature to free front endpapers, toning to spine of dust jacket. "A TRUE EXAMPLE OF A PASTOR AT... 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 handsome dust jacket. Very good indeed. "PRIEST! TRAITOR!! JESUIT!!!" First edition of this biography of then-Blessed Robert Southwell, by a British... More
London: The Westminster Press, 1952. Large folio (30 x 20 inches; 76 x 51 cm). Original color linoleum cut, with text. Slightly curled from having been rolled (but never folded), very light wear at edges, with a couple of tiny nicks and minor edge tears, otherwise. About-fine. THE MARTYRDOM OF... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First edition thus. Octavo, original green cloth, green top edge, original dust jacket. Subtle toning to the flap folds of the dust jacket, else Fine. "EYES SPEAK TO EYES, HEART TO HEART, AND NONE BUT THOSE BLESSED LOVERS UNDERSTANDS WHAT PASSES BETWEEN THEM" Orchard Books... 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
New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Folio (14 3/4 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards over quarter beige cloth spine, navy top edge, patterned endpapers. Spine tender but holding, corners bumped, slight wear to spine and edges of original boards. Very good indeed. First American edition of Funck-Brentano's pictorial... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1959. First English translation. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small inkstamp to top of free front endpaper, short tears to lower folds of the dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are near-fine. "THE CULT OF ST. THÈRÉSE OF LISIEUX HAS A...... More
New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1936. First edition. Quarto (7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches), original beige cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Cloth boards with modest soiling and foxing to joints and edges, two short closed tears to front panel of price-clipped dust jacket. Interiors and plates... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge, minimal edge-wear, vertical slice to center of front panel, crease to front flap of price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PRESENT STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO REPAY A DEBT TO... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1979, 1981. First editions. Two volumes. Sixteenmo (each volume measures 7 1/4 inches tall), maroon and light blue textured paper boards, original dust jackets. Slight separation to the lamination of the dust jacket of first volume. Books and dust jackets about-fine. "JESUS WHO LOVES YOU PARTICULARLY... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "BEDE THE VENERABLE IS THE FIRST GREAT ENGLISHMAN OF WHOM WE CAN FORM A CLEAR PERSONAL PICTURE" First edition of David Knowles's rewarding portraits of twenty-five great minds spanning a thousand years of... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. First American edition. Octavo, original half brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book is nearly-fine with sharp corners, rare pink dust jacket is stained and torn with loss to lower front panel and spine (but complete with the illustration entirely unaffected). A.... 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 MOVEMENT ALL. THE CHRISTIAN DEPARTS WITHOUT CONSOLATION. LIFE GOES ON" First... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, orignal 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 Muggeridge's appreciation of Mother... More
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London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine. First edition of this extended dialogue between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler, based on the five-episode mini-series for BBC television the previous year. Beautifully illustrated with 24 photographic plates and maps. Opens with... More
New York: P. J. Kenedy Sons, 1922. First edition. Small octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Ink owner stamp to bottom edge of the text block, toning to spine, two short closed tears and mild soiling to panels of dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "FOR ALTHOUGH HE HAD A.... More
Oxford and London: John Henry Parker/F. and J. Rivington, 1845-1881. Collected edition. Forty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter vellum, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing to endpapers but text generally quite clean, occasional mild soiling to bright vellum bindings, one volume with expert repair to corner. Sturdy, neat, and clean..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1947. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth with mounted labels, cartographic endpapers, uncut, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Very minor creasing to edges of bright and fresh dust jacket. About-fine. "THE APOSTLE OF CALIFORNIA" First edition of Repplier's biography of the famed 18th-century... More