Autumn 2023: Rare Books LA
London: The Crime Club / William Collins, 1938. Original red cloth (7 1/2 inches tall), lettered in black, original dust jacket. Mild toning to endpapers, minor foxing to edges, fading to cloth spine, ink inscription, chipping and tearing to jacket with loss of lower spine and lower corner of rear..... 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: 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 religious book..... 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 Katharine..... 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 Catholicism"—published..... 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. Second edition. 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..... 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
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 second..... 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 Principal..... 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 impression..... More
London and New York: John Lane, 1908. Octavo, original molded brown boards, gilt spine, dark top edge, uncut, original printed dust wrapper. Partially unopened, mild foxing to edges, else Fine. "A HOUSE, A GLEBE, A POUND A DAY; / A PLEASANT PLACE TO WATCH AND PRAY. / BE TRUE TO..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, n.d. 12 mo. (7 5/8 inches tall), original orange cloth, printed in black, original printed dust jacket. Gilt bookseller's label. Mild tanning and foxing to blank endpapers, gentle toning to the text, mild puckering to spine, slight bump to lower corner, minor edge-wear to..... More
London and New York: Sheed & Ward, 1933. First edition. Small folio (10 inches tall), original maroon cloth, original dust wrapper. Early owner signature to front endpaper and title page, slight wear to unclipped original dust wrapper. About Fine. "THE OLD CELTIC TIDES DREW OUT; IT WAS THE VICTORY OF..... More
London and Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1915. Early printing. Octavo, stiff card glued in original dust wrapper, printed in red and black with mounted color illustration. Christmas 1916 gift inscription, faint wear to corners, mild toning to spine and upper front wrapper. A near-fine copy. "MARY, IN HERSELF..... More
London: S.P.C.K., 1960. Original pale green cloth, gilt spine, original dust jacket. Slight wear to price-clipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. "BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM A CHRISTIAN MAN, BY MY ACTIONS A GREAT SINNER, AND BY CALLING A HOMELESS WANDERER" Handsome post-war printing of the English translation..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original steel gray cloth, original dust jacket. About Fine. "IT IS THE PROPER AIM AND SCOPE OF THE PRESENT BOOK TO SHOW THAT THE HISTORY OF PHILOSPHY MAKES PHILOSOPHICAL SENSE" First edition of Etienne Gilson's important survey of philosophy—ranging across a thousand years..... More
London: Hollis and Carter, 1947. Second edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, gilt spine, red top edge, original dust jacket. Early owner signature to front endpaper, mild foxing to original dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE VOICE OF CAMPION COMES TO US ACROSS THE CENTURIES AS THOUGH HE WERE WALKING AT..... More
[Atlanta]: E.S.C.R.U., [1962]. Single sheet (10 by 15 inches), printed and illustrated on all sides, folded vertically in quarters then horizontally across lower margin of sheet. About-Fine. "SEWANEE NEEDS YOUR CRITICISM FOR IT BELONGS TO THE CHURCH" Scarce 1962 Civil Rights leaflet protesting segregation at Sewanee Divinity School—with 3 anguished..... More
New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. First American edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Creasing and chipping with loss to upper edges of bright, unclipped jacket. Very good indeed. "I SUDDENLY SAW THAT ALL THE TIME IT WAS NOT I WHO HAD BEEN SEEKING GOD, BUT GOD..... More