Autumn 2022: Rare Books LAX
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Limited edition. Octavo, original red parchment, gilt spine and front panel, original red ribbon ties, top edge gilt. Bookplate. About-Fine. "AH! DEAR LORD / MIGHT I SO BEAUTIFY THY WORD!" Edition de Luxe of Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book—a limited edition illustrated..... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1932. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original brown and black cloth lettered in silver. Very gentle scuffing to front board but about-Fine. "GOLD AND SILVER, BRICKS AND MORTAR, THESE BECAME OUR GODS, AND THESE TOO MANY OF..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1926. Limited edition. Folio (12 1/8 inches tall), original illustrated paper boards, gray cloth spine, uncut, original dust wrapper. Very minor edge-wear to boards and wrapper. About-Fine. "MAIDEN MOST MEEK AND HEAVENLY QUEEN / ROSES, LO, I HAVE CULLED FIFTEEN" Limited edition, one of only 100 copies..... More
London: The Dropmore Press, 1949. Limited edition. Quarto (10 5/8 inches tall), original brick red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, uncut, original dust wrapper, original buff card slipcase with printed paper spine label. Book Fine, light foxing and toning to dust wrapper, slipcase with..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original turquoise cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Book fine, only very gentle spine toning to bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nearly-Fine. "AN OVERRIDING AND INESCAPABLE CHOICE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY OR PAGANISM" First book edition collecting three lectures by T.S. Eliot on the relationship..... 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
Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1928. Limited edition. Original striped paper boards (8 inches tall), mounted printed label, black leather spine, bound with extra blank leaves, uncut. Faint tanning to blank flyleaves, interiors fine, gentle soiling to still-bright boards. A near-fine copy. "A CERTAIN FRIAR WAS SENT FROM HIS PRIORY TO..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1904. Original red cloth (7 7/8 inches tall), gilt spine, original printed dust wrapper. Faint scattered foxing, gentle toning and neat tape repair to verso of wrapper. A near-fine copy. "TRUE HOPE'S A GLORIOUS HUNTER & HER CHASE / THE GOD OF NATURE IN THE..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1955. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookplate. Faint bumping to lower corners, inner flap price torn, mild foxing to unfaded dust jacket. Very good indeed. "IN EVERY CHRISTIAN VOCATION LIES THE GERM OF A MONASTIC VOCATION" First edition in English of..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original red cloth, original dust jacket. Slight offsetting to endpapers, ex-libris: faint ink-stamps (St. Paul's Friary Graymoor) to endpapers, tiny signature ("Ad Usum / Fr. Luke, S.A."), mild edge-wear, chipping to ends of toned dust jacket..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1921. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt title to front board, blind-stamped title to spine, uncut, original printed dust jacket. Last two leaves unopened, upper front corner bumped, slight spine toning, gentle edge-wear, chip to inner front flap. A near-fine copy. "A HARMONY BETWEEN..... More
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951. First edition. Original red cloth (7 5/8 inches tall), original dust jacket. Tape repair to verso ends of mildly toned spine. A nearly-fine copy. "THE FIRST AND THE LAST THING THAT CHAUCER WROTE WAS PRAYER. IT FINDS" First edition of Sister Madeleva's essays..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1950. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth boards, decorated and lettered in red, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, tiny ink stamp to rear flap, faint edge-wear and toning to unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "WHAT WE NEED, GOD, WHAT WE FINALLY NEED, IS A WOMAN..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original pale grey cloth lettered in yellow, original dust jacket. Book fine, gentle edge-wear, neat tape reinforcement to verso folds of price-clipped dust jacket. Still, a bright, clean, very good indeed copy. "POVERTY IN AMERICA FORMS A CULTURE, A WAY OF..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. Mild toning to unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE CONSERVATIVE, IN OUR TIME, MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE ROLE OF DON QUIXOTE" First edition of Russell Kirk's prescription for the defense of tradition—published by..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. First edition. 12 mo., original red cloth, original dust jacket. Neat verso reinforcement to corners and ends of unclipped original jacket. A near-fine copy. "LET THE CHURCH REMEMBER THIS: THAT EVERY MAKER AND WORKER IS CALLED TO SERVE GOD IN HIS PROFESSION—NOT OUTSIDE IT"..... 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: The Harvill Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's stamp, neat ownership signature, slight spotting to top edge, faint toning to price-clipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY OF GOD WHAT HE IS" First edition of the English..... More
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1949. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth boards, two mounted printed paper labels, original dust jacket. Fine. "LET US THROW OFF THE PIECES OF THE WORLD LIKE CLOTHING AND ENTER NAKED INTO WISDOM" First revised edition of Thomas Merton's meditations on the spiritual life—printed in the same..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Minor edge-wear to bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE PREDICAMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MAN" First edition of this study of the most prominent Existential thinkers with a special focus on Jean-Paul Satre, Karl Jaspers..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Original black cloth (6 3/4 inches tall), gilt and blind-stamped spine and front board, original dust wrapper. Book fine, early owner signature, scarce original wrapper with loss of lower spine but unclipped and complete. An excellent copy. "MOST ENGLISHMEN ARE OUTSIDE THE PAPAL FOLD..... More
Oxford: Alden & Co. Ltd. / Bocardo Press, 1910. First Edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original navy cloth with gilt titles. Small ink presentation inscription, gilt bright, gutter cracked but still firm, very faint wear to spine ends and corners. A near-fine copy. "THE AZURE BINDING OF ETON..... 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
Ditchling, Sussex: The Ditchling Press Ltd., 1952. Octavo, original gilt blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "WE LIVE IN THE SPEED AGE AND SO MUST SUFFER ACCORDINGLY...BUT WE CAN EXCLUDE FROM THE RUSH ONE SHELF IN THE ROOM, IF WE HAVE ONE, WHERE BOOKS ARE SOMETIMES TO BE ENJOYED IN..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1931. Limited edition. Quarto (11 1/4 inches tall), original gray textured paper boards, gilt white parchment spine, uncut. Very faint toning to spine, partially unopened. About-Fine. "AN ALMOST ENDLESS NUMBER OF DELIGHTFUL BITS OF ORNAMENT, EACH DRAWN WITH AMAZING OF LINE AND PRECISION OF DETAIL..... More