Trappist, KY: Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, 1946. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 224pp. First Gethsemani edition, 1946. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75) mildly toned to panels, library sticker to spine. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm and square. The history of the Trappist Holy Cross Abbey in.....
The Medici Society, 1925. Wide 8vo (7.5x`10), indigo blue buckram cloth, gilt titles, 89pp. Third printing, 1925, from the original 1912 edition. Unpriced dust jacket with small loss to spine heel and lower corners of flap edges. Boards slightly bowed upwards, fading to board edges, mild rubbing and offsetting to.....
Sheed and Ward, 1947. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, brown titles, 257pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with faint chips to top edge of both panels, faint loss to spine crown, toning and rubbing to rear panel. Toning to endpapers, slight bump to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and.....
Sheed and Ward, 1953. 8vo, blue cloth, black titles, 143pp. Early printing, stated ‘Reprinted, 1953.’ Price clipped dust jacket moderately toned to panels, faint marking to front panel. Boards scuffed at edges, free front endpaper missing Contents clean, binding firm. Houselander’s meditations of the infancy of Christ and spiritual childhood.....
Sheed and Ward, 1955. 8vo, red buckram cloth, black titles, 173pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket mildly worn to edges, a few small nicks and closed tears present to front panel, toning to flaps and rear panel. Corners lightly bumped, contents clean. A devotional guide to the traditional “Via Crucis”.....
Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1919. 16mo, plain typographic sewn pamphlet, superfine paper, 24pp. Limited issue, unnumbered. Wrappers and pages show slight rippling and toning. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third volume in the Welfare Handbook series by St. Dominic’s Press, printed and designed by Eric Gill. ‘Being extracts.....
J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, yellow buckram cloth with gilt titles, 141pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (Seven & Sixpence). Dust jacket mildly rubbed and toned, sunning to spine. Foxing to top edge of text block. Firmly bound with clean contents. A collection of essays.....
Longmans Green and Co., 1951. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 343pp. Stated Seventh impression, 1951. Ex-church library copy with stamping to introductory pages, card residue at rear. Unclipped dust jacket (15 net) mildly worn at edges, rubbed to panels. Contents clean, binding firm. Collected correspondence by the Anglo Catholic writer.....
London: Methuen & Co, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, flexible blue cloth with silver titles, 233pp. Unclipped dust jacket with list of titles from publishers catalog. Cloth shows light fading to spine and boards, ownership signature to front endpaper. Small spot of sticker residue to spine of dust jacket. A......
Little, Brown and Company, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, stamped red cloth with black titles, 351pp. The true First American Edition, which is by a publishing anomaly the Book Club Edition, issued in an unpriced dust jacket with the date of 1945 to title page and 1944,1945 listed to copyright.....
Methuen & Co; Burns and Oates, 1910. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, decorative gilt laurel, bevelled edges, gilt topstain, 142pp. ‘The Eighth thousand’ of the first edition by Methuen in collaboration with Burns Oates. Boards lightly rubbed, sunning to spine, faint markings to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. Poems.....
The Bodley Head / John Lane Company, 1906. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 305pp plus 14 pgs of advertisements. Stated third edition. Boards moderately rubbed, loss to crown of spine, with fraying and abrasion to external rear hinge. Endpapers toned with minimal foxing, a few light pencil markings to text.....
Viking Press, 1961. 8vo, black quarter cloth over gingham green cloth boards, gold and green titles, 248pp. First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) chipped to edges, small diagonal crease and closed tear to front panel, mild rubbing to panels. Contents clean, binding firm. A late career masterpiece and one.....
Sheed and Ward, 1957. 8vo, pink buckram cloth, black titles, 338pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) mildly toned, rubbed to panels. Ex convent library stamping to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. A compendium of Newman’s autobiographical sketches, memoirs and journals, edited and introduced by Henry Tristam of the Oratory.....
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1855. Second American Edition. 8vo (5.5 x 7.5), chocolate brown stamped cloth, gilt titles, 252pp. Second Edition, so stated. Spine chipped at edges, rubbing to boards and endpapers. Binding firm and secure, pages unmarked though mildly foxed. The Second American Edition of Cardinal Newman’s philosophical and autobiographical.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 8vo, contemporary binding, 430pp plus 127p appendix. Bound in red calf over marbleized paper, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands, marbleized endpapers, all edges marbleized. First one volume edition, following the serial publication in seven separate tracts with the “Answer to.....
London: H.R. Allenson, Limited, 1911. Small 8vo, purple cloth, gilt titles, 133pp. Cloth minimally faded to corners, sunned to spine, mild rubbing to boards, toning and ownership signature to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. ‘Being the Visions and Voices Vouchsafed to Lady Julian Recluse at Norwich in 1373’ transcribed and.....
Carillon Books, 1980. 8vo, red buckram cloth, gilt titles, 190pp. Unclipped dust jacket (9.95) shows a few vertical lines of rubbing to front panel. Contents clean, binding firm. Tells the captivity narratives of forty English martyrs during the underground era of the Catholic Church in England, such as Robert Southwell.....
Sheed and Ward, 1962. 8vo, chartreuse buckram cloth, black titles, 329pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) with loss to spine crown and heel, toning to flaps, sunning to spine. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A biography of the 20th century English Catholic writer, mystic and artist by her.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (5.5 x 8) Stated 1st edition. Black cloth with rosary wrapped lily escutcheon to front board, gilt titles at spine. 273pp. Lily and sacred heart motifs stamped to endpapers, bevelled page edges, top edge stained red. Near fine with light bumping.....
Paulist Press, 1928. 8vo, pictorial white staple bound pamphlet, 32pp. First American Issue, reprint from the original Catholic Truth Society edition, London. Wrappers show mild toning and discoloration, creasing to edges. Mild toning to pages and a few faint crayon marks in margins. Five part essay by the British priest.....