New York: 1943. Mass market paperback. Original paperback (6 3/8 inches tall), perfect-bound in original illustrated wrapper, pink endpapers, all edges red. Text tanned but clean, minor edge-wear. Very good indeed. CHESTERTON'S "FAMOUS PRIEST-DETECTIVE" Second World War printing of Chesterton's Father Brown stories—an excellent copy of the Pocket Book..... More
London: Faber & Gwyn Limited, 1927. First trade edition. Original yellow paper wrappers (7 1/4 inches tall) with inner flaps, original paper mailing envelope. Fine. "GLORY TO GOD IN THE LOWEST / THE SPOUT OF THE STARS IN SPATE— / WHERE THE THUNDERBOLT THINKS TO BE SLOWEST / AND THE..... More
Privately Printed, 1967. Limited edition. Octavo (9 1/2 inches tall), stapled in original stiff paper wrappers, printed in red. Faint toning to upper margin, shallow vertical crease to front wrapper. A near-fine copy. "THE APPARATUS OF THE STATE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF CATHOLICISM WAS EXTENSIVE" Limited edition of Charles Fracchia's..... More
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1924. Original black pebbled cloth (2 inches by 1 1/2 inches), gilt vignette, rounded corners, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine. "OUT OF THE DEPTHS I HAVE CRIED TO THEE, O LORD: LORD HEAR MY PRAYER" Lovely miniature illustrated prayer book—measuring only 2..... More
London: Faith Press Ltd., circa 1926. Original staple-bound illustrated stiff cloth wrappers (4 1/8 inches tall). Plates and text clean, gentle edge-wear, minor spotting to original wrappers. About Fine. THOMAS NOYES-LEWIS AND THE FAITH PRESS Pocket liturgical missal with color illustrations by Thomas Noyes-Lewis, scarce in the original illustrated cloth..... More
London: Illustrated News of the World, 1890. Original broadside print (measuring 23 by 16 inches), custom mounted on tabs in a black window mat. Folding crease across center sheet, else Fine. "THEN LORD, IN THY MERCY, GRANT US A SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST, AND PEACE AT THE LAST" Requiem..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1904. Oblong (6 1/2 by 9 1/4 inches), staple-bound in original illustrated gilt paper boards, red cloth spine. Owner inkstamp to corner blank flyleaf, very gentle wear and soiling to original decorated boards. Very good indeed. "INTO THY HANDS, O LORD, INTO THY HANDS" Illustrated..... More
London: Samuel Gurney / The Society of SS Peter & Paul, 1914. First edition. Octavo (9 inches tall), stitched in original illustrated paper wrappers, contemporary gilt-stamped red cloth, bookplate. Slight soiling to wrappers. A near-fine copy. "NEVER, I WEEN / WAS A PROUDER SEEN, / READ OF IN BOOKS, OR..... More