Atlanta: E.S.C.R.U., [c.1962]. Broadside poster (22 by 17 inches), printed in two colors. Folded in quarters with vertical and horizontal creasing, else Fine. "BEHOLD, HOW GOOD AND JOYFUL A THING IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY!" Large Civil Rights poster—illustrated by Ade Bethune—for the Episcopal Society..... More
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
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
n.d. Single card (8 7/8 inches tall), central engraved portrait set in an incised engraved border, both mounted within a slender double frame in red, with pencil caption to lower margin. A nearly fine piece of ephemera. "EVEN WHEN YOU SUFFER SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE, YOU ARE BLESSED"..... More
St. Louis: Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, [1948]. Staple-bound in original wrappers (7 1/2 inches tall), illustrated front panel, blank back panel. A near-fine copy. "WE CATHOLICS WANT OUR NON-CATHOLIC FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TO KNOW US AS WE REALLY ARE" Knights of Columbus pamphlet presenting the Catholic..... More
Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, circa 1963. Folio broadside (measuring 16 by 11 inches tall), single deckle-edged leaf with watermark, printed in two colors on recto only, with single dotted rule border and captions. Custom tab-mounted on a black mat (measuring 24 by 19 inches). About-fine. A handsome piece of..... 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
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"... 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: 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"... 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 ink-stamp to corner blank flyleaf, very gentle wear and soiling to original decorated boards. Very good indeed. "INTO THY HANDS, O LORD, INTO THY HANDS"... 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