Mount Vernon NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1959. Hardcover. 78p. Red pictorial paper-covered boards in decorative slipcase. No date but old ownership name dated 1959. Near fine condition. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Attractive gift edition of Kipling's poetry. More
Philadelphia: Eugene Cummiskey, 1843. Second Edition. Leather bound. 108, 720, pages 322-339, for a total of 846p. A small book bound in an attractive deep burgundy colored full 19th century morocco leather binding. Bords and spine elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. Mild shelf wear along edges from normal..... More
New York: George F. Hopkins, 1802. Second Edition. Leather bound. THE SECOND PRINTING OF ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Two volume set. Rebound in full brown leather, stamped and ruled in gilt. Housed in a custom brown leather and marbled paper clamshell box, with gilt decorated spine..... More
Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth, stamped in gilt and black. A clean, bright, firm hardcover book in very good condition of the 1873 Smith printing of perhaps Verne's most famous works. Touch of shelf wear to corners; the dark brown endpapers..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 302p. Hardcover book in very good condition in good dustjacket. Dustjacket chipped around edges. Minimal wear to boards; text unmarked and tight. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WALTER CISZEK. The inscription is from the year of publication. Ciszek's cause for sainthood is currently..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 288p. THE SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF DOROTHY DAY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's signature else clean, tight, and unmarked. The jacket is whoile and intact with olnly some mild shelf wear along..... More
New York: Appleton-Century Co., 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 121p, numerous b/w photographs. INSCRIBED BY FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. Spellman inscribed the photo-iilustrated biography to Raymond P. Harold, a prominent businessman in Worcester, Mass. Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) served as Archbishop of New York City from 1939 until..... More
Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1964. 3rd printing. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a near-fine dustjacket. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cushing signed the book to Rev. James Harvey Miller "with fondest regards" A biography of Cardinal Cushing, who Archbishop of Boston from 1944-1970. He..... More
Dublin: Concilium Legionis Mariae, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 347p. Red cloth with color pictorial cover. A clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition. INSCRIBED BY FRANK DUFF, THE FOUNDER OF THE LEGION OF MARY. Duff has been declared a Servant of God and his cause for sainthood is officially in..... More
Notre Dame: Fides Publishers, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 178p. A fine hardcover book in a good dustjacket. The jacket is whole and intact but does have clear tape along the fold of the front panel and the interior flap. The scarce first edition of Dorothy Day's spiritual study of St..... More
Detroit: Walter Romig, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 152p. Hardcover; original cloth. Ex-library with old library ownership markings else very good. More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1949. 1st Edition. Paperback. 213p, illustrated by Ed Willock. Original light green pictorial wrappers. Fine condition. A very scarce work by Maurin, one of the founders of the Catholic Worker Movement. Maurin was the inspiration and mentor of Dorothy Day who wrote the introduction for..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Printing House, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 226p, plates. Black decorated cloth. A hardcover book in fine condition. Very scarce. An account of the Catholic organization founded in 1872 which advocated for prohibition in the US. More
Ritzville WA: The Author, 1914. 1st Edition. Wraps. 128p. Original pictorial wraps. Mild shelf wear else a clean, tight softcover book in very good condition. The author claims to be a former Catholic nun who became an Evangelical Protestant and toured the US giving lectures on the alleged evils and..... More
Toledo: Protestant Missionary Pub. Co., 1914. 1st Edition. Paperback. 131p. Original pictorial wraps. Mild shelf wear else a clean, tight softcover book in very good condition. One of numerous anti-Catholic works issued by the Protestant Missionary Pub. Co., a Toledo Ohio group whose stated goal was to reform and unite..... More
Toronto: C.M. Ellis, 1893. 1st Edition. 47-page softcover booklet. Original wraps. Mild edgewear else very good condition. Contains two lectures: The Holy Roman curiosity shop -- God's Viceregency on earth. The anonymous author is referred to only by his initials. A scarce anti-Catholic work. More
Woodstock: Woodstock College, 1891. 1st Edition. Paperback. 102p. Original pale green unprinted wrappers. Fine condition. Written anonymously but attributed to Fr. Canestrelli. The text is a translation into Flathead of the Catholic Catechism issued by the Third Baltimore Council, the official catechism at the time for the United States. The..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. ONE OF 565 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Black decorated cloth. A hardcover book in fine condition with publisher's slipcase. Also loosely laId in is a typed letter on O'Connell's official stationary, signed in a secretarial hand. The letter is..... More
London: George Routledge, 1851. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 399p. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine worn along edges with two horizontal tears across the backstrip. Paper is a bit browned from age. Former owner's name (P. Cunningham) on title page else unmarked. Scarce Anglican account, written with an anti-Catholic bias..... More
Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 390p, frontis. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth worn along front gutter and crown of spine. Foxing throughout. Former owner's signature on title page else text is unmarked. A hardcover book in good condition. Howes M832. An..... More
New York: Doran, 1921. 1st edition. Hardcover. THE TRUE FIRST PRINTING THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUSTJACKET. The book is in fine condition and the jacket is in very good condition. Light brown cloth with collie head on front board stamped in dark brown and white; lettering on spine in dark brown..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. JUNE 1936 PRINTING. The second printing of the first edition. Original gray cloth. Former owners name on title page else unmarked. Covers slightly rubbed from ordinary shelf wear. Lacks the front blank free endpaper else complete. Overall a clean, tight hardcover book in..... More
Chicago: Mrs. Lucy E. Parsons, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this scarce biography of a 19th century leader of the American labor movement. Original reddish-brown cloth, decorated in black and gold. Red floral design endpapers, all edges dyed red as well. Discreetly ex-lib; the only marks are the..... More
St. Louis: Christian Board of Publication, 1837. Hardcover. 360p. A black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Cloth lightly rubbed; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. A classic Protestant-Catholic debate. More
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1870. Hardcover. 437p. A small hardcover book bound in brown cloth. Good condition overall. Edges rubbed through and surfaces lightly scuffed all over. Old owner's inscription on front free endpaper and notes inside back cover. Small sticker at the top of page 7. The rear free endpaper..... More