Summer 2023: Our Lady Saint Mary
London: Blackie and Son Limited, circa 1904. Original green cloth (6 1/8 inches tall), gilt spine and front board, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Sporadic light foxing. A nearly-fine copy. "NARROW IS THE MANSION OF MY SOUL" Handsome edition of Augustine's Confessions—translated from the Latin by E.B. Pusey. Issued..... More
London: The Society of SS. Peter & Paul, 1976. Octavo (7 7/8 inches tall), stapled in original stiff wrappers, printed in red-and-black. Fine. "WE SHOULD ENDEAVOR TO RAISE CORRESPONDING AFFECTIONS IN THE WILL DURING THE RECITAL OF EACH DECADE" Handsome printing of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary—printed..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1925. First edition. 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original blue cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust wrapper printed in red. Faint spine toning, mild soiling along fore-edge of rare original wrapper. A nearly-fine copy. "HE BELONGS TO ALL THE AGES EXCEPT PERHAPS..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Small ink stamps to front endpaper, verso of title page, Early owner signatures (one dated 4/22/55), owner ink-stamps to front endpaper and title page verso, minor wear to dust jacket. A near-fine copy..... More
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1917. First edition. Original brick cloth (7 3/8 inches tall), gilt spine and front board. Benziger bookmark laid-in. Very faint toning to spine. A nearly-fine copy. "TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST IS THE VOCATION OF EVERY CATHOLIC" First edition of this "practical solution" for..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, circa 1951. Popular edition. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original pale gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and yellow. Slight toning to paper. A near-fine copy. "MAY THE CHURCH, IN HER DAYS OF PEACE AND OF VICTORIES, NEVER FORGET WHAT SHE OWES TO..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Octavo, original white paper boards, cloth spine printed in black, original dust jacket. About-Fine. "AFTER COMMUNION I THOUGHT MY HEART WAS GOING TO EXPLODE" Handsome edition of The Seven Storey Mountain—Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography, which "became a best-seller because it was a...... More
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1949. Large octavo (9 1/4 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, small Jesuit stamps to blank flyleaf and title page, small abrasion to the rear panel, short closed tears, minor chipping to spine panel of the jacket. A...... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915. Original navy cloth (7 7/8 inches tall), gilt decorated spine and front board, top edge gilt. A nearly-fine copy. "ROBERT HUGH BENSON HAS BEEN APTLY COMPARED TO A METEOR WHICH FLASHES ATHWART THE SKY, CONSUMING ITSELF BY ITS OWN PACE" First edition of Olive..... More
Garden City, New York: Image Books, 1958. Original stiff card wrappers (7 1/8 inches tall). Three check marks to margins of table of contents, else Fine. "IN OUR DAY, ANTIPATHY TO CATHOLICISM IS STILL ABUNDANTLY MANIFESTED" Image Books paperback edition of Ronald Knox's "look at the Eternal Truths of..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1951. First edition. Thin quarto (10 inches tall), original cream linen cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board, original photographic dust jacket. Book fine, modest chipping and soiling to scarce original photographic dust jacket. An excellent copy. "SO WE MAY SAY IN A TRUE SENSE..... More
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1936. Octavo, original navy cloth, gilt and blind-stamped boards, original dust jacket. Modest toning to original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE WHOLE LITURGIC LIFE OF CHRISTENDOM IS BUILT ON A DOUBLE FOUNDATION: THE BIBLE AND THE EUCHARIST" Second edition of Evelyn Underhill's study..... More
London: Collins, 1980. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. A fine book, slight wear to fore-edges, mild toning to spine and upper front panel of unclipped original jacket. An excellent copy. "I, CATHERINE, SERVANT AND SLAVE OF THE SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST, WRITE TO YOU..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1886. 12 mo. (7 inches tall), contemporary full white vellum, extra-gilt decorated beveled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Engraved bookplate, About Fine. "WAIT THEN FOR AN ENTIRELY BRIGHT MORNING, RISE WITH THE SUN, AND GO TO SANTA CROCE, WITH A GOOD OPERA-GLASS IN..... More
London: Eyre and Spottiswode, 1901. Original pale green and brown cloth (5 3/4 inches tall), decorated in gilt, coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Faint toning to center, small blemsh to front board, else Fine. "WE FIRST PRAY FOR THE KING AND THE ROYAL FAMILY...WHEN A NATION GROWS CARELESS AND FOGETS..... More
New and London: Philosophical Library / Darton Longman and Todd, (1973). 12 mo. (7 1/2 inches tall), original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original dust jacket. Owner signatures to blank flyleaf, light wear and soiling to unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THINGS MAY NOT CHANGE, BUT MAN'S UNDERSTANDING..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First edition. Octavo, original teal cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Slight toning to original jacket. A nearly fine copy. "WE ARE IMMEDIATELY, IF WE SEEK THE HIGHEST MEANING OF HISTORY, ON A THEOLOGICAL PLANE" First edition of Daniel Berrigan's..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. Original charcoal paper boards (6 1/2 inches tall), gilt spine, uncut, original dust wrapper. Nearly Fine. "A SCHOOL FOR THE SERVICE OF GOD" Handsome edition of The Rule of St. Benedict—with an engraved frontispiece portrait of St. Benedict—complete as published with the scarce original..... More
Collegeville, Minnesota: St. John's Abbey Press, 1953. Original pebbled maroon cloth (6 1/8 inches tall), spine lettered in green, original dust jacket. Book fine, pencil price to inner flap of jacket, slight wear to corners and ends of toned spine. A near-fine copy. "ALL THE INFORMATION AN OBLATE SHOULD HAVE—THE..... More
Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, circa 1914. Original paper boards (6 1/2 inches tall) over cloth spine, gilt spine and front board, ribbon marker, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. A nearly-fine copy. "SOFTLY AND GENTLY, DEAREST SWEET SOUL, / IN MY MOST LOVING ARMS I NOW ENFOLD THEE"... More
New York and Montreal: M. Walter Dunne, [1904]. Original stiff paper vellum wrapper (9 5/8 inches tall), printed in black with a red frame. Interiors fine, mild chipping and tanning to front panel, minor edge-wear to rear panel. A near-fine copy. "URBS INCLYTA ANGLORUM LONDONIA" A Key to the..... More
London and Boston: John Lane at the Bodley Head / Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. Small quarto (8 inches tall), original gilt-decorated beveled brown cloth, uncut. Bookplate, discrete repair to front joint, original tissue-guard partially detached, boards toned but gilt bright and corners sharp. A near-fine copy. "THEY SAY..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Original brick red cloth (6 5/8 inches tall), original dust jacket. Slight toning, light edge-wear to jacket. A near-fine copy. "LONG AND PERILOUS ARE THE PATHS WHEREBY THE LOVER SEEKS HIS BELOVED" New edition, revised and enlarged, of this "little classic of Catalan..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Early owner signature, gentle toning to clipped (price intact) dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "IF HEAVEN IS A NAME FOR A STATE OF REAL PERFECTION, WE OURSELVES HAVE MOST REMARKABLY 'COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN'" Second..... More
London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1934. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt spine and front board, original dust jacket. Gilt boards bright, minor offsetting to blank endpapers, jacket with mild soiling to corners, toning to spine. A near-fine copy. "THESE MARTYR POETS, WERE IN..... More