Spring 2020: Prayer Book
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911. First edition. Original gilt blue cloth (6 inches tall), top edge gilt, uncut. Trace of wear to corners and spine ends. A nearly-fine copy. "GOD IS NOT A SYMBOL OF GOODNESS. GOODNESS IS A SYMBOL OF GOD" First American edition of this fine introduction to..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash, [1907]. FIrst edition. Small quarto (9 5/8 inches tall), original pictorial paper boards. Light offsetting to free endpapers, gentle crease to inner margin of title page, gutter cracked at p.32, minor edge-wear and spotting to boards. A splendid copy. "JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Large octavo (10 inches tall), original lime green cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine, very slight edge-wear, minor chipping to spine ends of bright dust jacket. "THERE, AT THE VERY SUMMIT, STANDING IN A RADIANCE LIKE A RAINBOW, WAS A LADY"..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, original dust jacket. Small adhesion to base of front board, tiny ink stamps to inner flap and blank flyleaf, tape-repairs and edge-wear to dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE REVERBERATION, EVEN AT THE OBLIQUE TOUCH OF A FINGERNAIL..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1964. Original cream cloth (9 1/4 inches tall), original dust jacket. Modest bump to top front corner, very faint bump to top corner of the text block, mild tanning to endpapers. A near-fine copy. "JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS WILL TELL YOU BETTER THAN I"..... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. First edition. Original illustrated paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall), white gilt cloth spine. Gentle toning to rear board and spine, gilt still visible, inkstamps to front pastedown, colophon, and fore-edge. An excellent copy. "HOW IN THAT UPPER ROOM HE GAVE HIMSELF TO BE OUR..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1914. 12 mo. (7 inches tall), original gilt purple cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Gilt boards bright, early owner signature, slight browning to text, tanning to early and later leaves, crack to inner gutter but text and binding holding. Very good indeed. "THE SPUR..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, faint spotting to spine crisp, clean dust jacket. An excellent copy. "FOR MANY A LONG YEAR ENGLAND HAD NO CATHOLIC BISHOP" First edition of this history of the eighteenth-century Vicars Apostolic of England by..... More
Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1866. 16 mo. (6 3/8 inches tall), contemporary full brown pebbled morocco stamped in black, mounted brass cross and engraved clasp, two red silk ribbon markers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt over red. Scattered very light prior owner notations in pencil (mostly marking the..... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Albert Bender, 1939. Limited edition. Folio sheet (15 by 10 1/2 inches), printed on watermarked paper, folded once to make four pages. Title in black with printer's device on the front page, fore-and-bottom edges uncut, text in gilt and black with..... More
London: Novello and Company, Limited, 1900. Small folio (10 inches tall), original printed paper boards, gilt burgundy cloth spine. Minor edge-wear, slight spine lean, corners bumped, original price struck through on front board (with publisher's ink stamp) and title page. Original binding and text largely clean. "I AM NEAR TO..... More
Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, 1950. Original illustrated paper boards (7 3/8 inches tall). Ex-library with ink stamps, call number, removed pockets. Binding and interiors very good indeed. "OUR BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER HAS BEEN LIKE A SHIP LAUNCHED UPON A TROUBLED SEA" Revised edition of Percy Dearmer's Everyman's History of..... More
New York: St. Thomas Church, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original paper boards (9 1/4 inches tall) over red cloth spine. Laid-in is a contemporary parish bulletin, detailing the parish activities under the Rev. John Andrew. Very minor blemishes to original boards, including a faint trace of a removed sticker to..... More
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Seabury Press, 1961. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. About-fine book, dust jacket with toned spine, chip to lower front corner. "EVERY PARISH MUST BE A CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WHERE ONE CAN EXPECT TO FIND AN UNDERSTANDING AND LOVING RECEPTION" First edition of Bishop Appleton Lawrence's valuable..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1924. First edition. 12 mo. (7 11/16 inches tall), original orange paper boards, orange cloth spine with printed paper label, uncut, original dust jacket. Corners sharp, paper spine label bright, mild staining to boards, jacket slightly worn along toned spine, small chip at base of front..... More
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1951. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Faint mottling to upper margin of boards, gentle bumping to upper corners, short closed tear and minor wear to spine head and flap folds of the jacket. A near-fine copy. "CAMPBELL CARRIES US WITH HIM..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1963. First edition. Octavo, original gilt-decorated black cloth, illustrated endpapers, red top edge, original dust jacket. About-fine in an unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends and a small abrasion. "HE STANDS THUS BEFORE THE WORLD, ARMS OPEN WIDE" First edition of..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1957. First edition. Small octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, photographic endpapers, red top edge. Dust jacket unclipped and unfaded with minor wear to corners and spine ends. Near-fine. "HE WHO HAS LEFT ALL MEN DWELLS IN THEM ALL BY THE CHARITY OF CHRIST"..... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. Octavo, black cloth, gray boards, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, closed tear to back panel, gentle crease to rear flap of clean, unclipped dust jacket. "NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PERFORM THE MOST PAINFUL ACT OF LOVE THAT HAS EVER BEEN PERFORMED" Second..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. First edition. Original blue cloth (7 3/8 inches tall), original dust wrapper. Slight toning to cloth spine, couple of small nicks to scarce original dust wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "ALTHOUGH NOT ALL PHILOSOPHERS ARE GREATER THAN THEIR BEST COMMENTATORS, MOST OF THEM ARE, AND THIS..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. Limited edition. Quarto (10 1/4 inches tall), original gray paper boards, gilt red morocco spine, original plain white paper dust wrapper titled in ink. Fine. "A VERY IMPORTANT STEP IN THE TRANSMISSION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE TO OUR TIME" Limited first edition..... More
[New Haven]: Yale University Library/Arts of the Book Collection, 1985. Quarto (11 inches tall), original paper wrappers."Eichenberg" written in ink at the top of the blank spine. Fine. "MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CARRY IMAGES BY FRITZ EICHENBERG AROUND, EMBEDDED IN OUR PSYCHES" First edition of this handsome exhibition catalogue collecting 50..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1943. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Penciled signature to blank flyleaf of about-fine book, scarce unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends and corners. "THE BOOK IS LARGE BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY OF GETTING CHESTERTON ON TO..... More