Paris: Editions Jacques Vautrain, 1945. J.M. Curutchet. Wide 8vo, quarter blue leather over blue marbled paper, gilt titles, four raised bands, orange marbled endpapers, 127pp. Text in French. Limited edition, numbered 2094 in an edition of 3120. Front board shows a nick to fore edge and fraying to bottom corners.....
Louvain: Abbaye Du Mont Cesar, 1937. 18mo (4.25 x 6.25), marbled brown leather, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, inlaid gilt floral dentelles, all edge gilt, two page ribbons, 880, [39] pp. Second edition. Mild scuffing to leather at crown and tail of spine. Contents clean, binding firm. French-Latin hand missal.....
Lyon: Chez Tournachon-Molin, 1806. Hardcover. 16mo (4.5 x 7) Text in Latin and French with Gregorian chant notation. Full calfskin with gilt tooled spine, 580pp. Boards show scuffing to leather and slight bow upwards, though are square at spine. Endpapers toned, faintly foxed and damp stained. Some light spotting to.....
Editions SERG, 1969. Wide 8vo, red imitation padded leather boards, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, 375pp. Dust jacket shows a few closed tears to flaps, small creases, edge wear. Contents clean, binding firm. Illustrated book about the chivalric orders of medieval France, their symbols, crests, jewelry and other regalia. Texte en.....
Kegan Paul, 1947. 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt titles, 299p. First British edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10s. 6d. net) with discreet tape repairs to reverse of jacket, creasing and rubbing to panels, small loss and chips to edges. Boards with minimal spotting and slight bowing. Contents clean, binding firm and.....
Wilkes-Barre, PA: Dimension Books, 1964. First American Edition. 8vo (6x9), black quarter cloth over chartreuse marbleized paper boards, gilt titles, 110pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.95) foxed to rear panel, small stain to edge of rear panel at spine. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A wonderful essay by the French.....
Longmans, Green and Co., 1944. 8vo, beige papered boards, blue titles, 75pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50) lightly spotted and rubbed to panels, a few small closed tears at edges, toning to flaps. Contents clean, binding firm. A brief devotional work on the liturgical rites of Holy Thursday and.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (5.5 x 7.75) 1st English edition, so stated. Maroon cloth with gilt titles, 282pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (15s net), showing library mark to heel of spine, else fine. Discreet library stamping to front. A section of pages show some closed.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First Edition. 8vo (6x9), beige buckram cloth, burgundy titles, 176pp. First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket. Panels of dust jacket mildly rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Five essays on philosophy of history by the Thomist philosopher. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 8vo, black cloth, gilt and silver titles, gold endpapers, 277pp. First Edition, so stated. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95), toning to flaps, edge wear to panels. Series of essays by the Catholic philosopher, addressing theological concerns in the contemporary church. A nearly fine copy in mylar.....
Librarie Plon, 1925. 8vo, softcover wrappers, uncut page leaves, 282pp. First edition, the principal volume in the Roseau d’Or series by Plon. Ex-libris copy from the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame University. Association copy, inscribed by the philosopher to Noemi Renan, daughter of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French orientalist scholar.....
Helicon Press, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, dark green cloth with gilt titles, red topstain, 163pp. Price clipped dust jacket shows rubbing and a few spots of soiling to front panel, general rubbing to rear. Light toning to endpapers. Firmly bound with clean text. Collected discourses of the Vincentian priest.....
Approaches, 1959. 8vo, stiff softcover red typographic wrappers, 317pp. First issue. Wrappers mildly creased at edges, toned to text block, faint wear to spine edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A radical intergral nationalist booklet penned by the founder of Cite Catholique, former member of the monarchist Action Francaise.....
Sheed and Ward: 1947. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, green titles, 356pp. First edition. Boards mildly worn to spine corners, short fraying to cloth edges and previous sticker residue to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Contents clean, binding firm. Subtitled ‘A Contemporary Novel of the French ‘Eighties’, the novelistic masterpiece by.....
Les Editions du Cerf, 1953. 8vo, gray typographic softcover wrappers, 275pp, [1]. Second edition. Inscribed by Louis Bouyer to the front flyleaf: ‘tres cordial hommage Louis Bouyer de l’Oratorie’, and presented to an ostensible (albeit indecipherable) Carmelite monastery. Mild age toning to pages and faint edge wear to wrappers. Contents.....
Gallimard, 1936. 8vo, typographic softcover wrappers, bevelled edges, 127pp. Association copy, inscribed by the poet to the front endpaper. “A Florence Meyer Son vieiel ami Claudel.” Florence Meyer, American photographer, was the daughter of Washington Post heiress and philanthropist Agnes Meyer, a close friend, patron and correspondent of Claudel. Wrappers.....
Albany, NY: Magi Books, 1974. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 404pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket with faint chips to spine edges, moderate rubbing to rear panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Selections from the journal of the Russian born French poet, Catholic mystic and philosopher, edited by her.....