Choephori
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1988). First Paperback Edition. Revised, with introduction & commentary by A.F. GARVIE.
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The Hound & Horn: A Harvard Miscellany; Vol. II, No. 3, April-June, 1929
(Portland): The Hound & Horn, 1929. First Edition. 8vo. 5.875 x 9 in. [10], [128], [6] pp. Illustrated with several plates, reproductions of drawings, a photograph, etc. Contains poem 'Anne Garner' by James Agee, in his first year at Harvard; poem 'Song for the Presentation of Christ' by DUDLEY FITTS;.....
Albumasaris de Revolutionibus Nativitatum
Lipsiae (Leipzig): B.G. Teubner, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.125 in. xviii, 362 pp. David Pingree's critical edition of the Greek version of Persian astrologer Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi's work; including preface, critical apparatus, indexes, etc. Teubner's vermillion cloth, titles in black. Text in Greek, Preface in Latin. Teubner critical.....
St. Bernard of Clairvaux; Seen through his Selected Letters
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1953. First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xii, 276 pp. Full light grey cloth, titled in black on spine, in light grey pictorial dust jacket. Translated, with an introduction, by Father BRUNO SCOTT JAMES. Foreword by THOMAS MERTON. Approbations. 'Perhaps our own century needs nothing.....
Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy
(London): (Sandpiper Books), (1998). First Sandpiper Edition. 8vo. 5.625 x 8.75 in. xv, 313 pp. + ads. Dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in original glossy dust jacket. Reprint of the 1981 Oxford Edition. Uncommon in dust jacket.
The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, (1927). First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.625 in. [12], 364, [4] pp. Prize binding, City of Oxford High School 1930 Midsummer Examination copy, rebound in green half-calf, tiled, ruled & ornamented in gilt, with City of Oxford School seal with motto 'Nemo Repente Sapit'.....
Missel et Vesperal Quotidiens (No. 940); avec Traduction et Notes Explicatives
Turnhout: Brepols, (1943). Early Printing. 16mo. 3.75 x 6.125 in. Rebound in red library buckram, titled with 'School of Hotel Administration' in gilt on spine. Daily Roman Missal in French and Latin, in the Art Deco style, with headpieces & tailpieces throughout. Ordinary of the Mass printed in red &.....
Les enfants du jazz (Tales of the Jazz Age)
(Paris): Gallimard, (1967). First French Edition. 8vo. 6 x 8.5 in. 289, [7] pp. French-folded wrappers, printed in red & black, with numbered-limitation slip; in glassine dustwrapper. Translated by Suzanne MAYOUX. Uncut signatures. Published as No. 439 of the 'Du Monde Entier' series. Text in French. Limited edition, numbered 19.....
(The Great Gatsby)
Athens: (Friends of Literature), 1955. First Greek Edition. 8vo. 6 x 8.75 in. 143, [1] pp. Plain typographic wrappers printed in red, in pictorial dust jacket illustrated in green & brown. Translated by MANTHOS CRISPIS. Text in modern Greek. Scarce.
Providence
Rockford: TAN Books, (1998). Reprint. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.125 in. 389 pp. + adverts. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Translated by Dom BEDE ROSE, O.S.B., D.D. Approbations. TAN Reprint of the 1937 Herder Edition in English.
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Die Selbstbehauptung der deutschen Universität [The Self-Assertion of the German University]
Breslau: Wilh. Gottl. Korn, 1933. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 22, [2] pp. Heidegger's speech delivered on the solemn assumption of the rectorate at Freiburg University, 1933. Blue & white wraps. Text in German blackletter.
Porgy
[New York]: Grosset and Dunlap, (c. 1925). Reprint. 8vo. 5.375 x 8 in. 196, [2] pp. Illustrated with numerous black & white vignettes ('decorations') by THEODORE NADEJEN. Publisher's 'Novels of Distinction' bookmark laid in. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his 'Hemlock' arts &.....
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Der Ursprung der Logik bei den Griechen [Greek Foundations of Traditional Logic]
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, (1965). First Thus. 8vo. Approx. 5 x 8.25 in. 106 + [6] pp. French-folded wrappers. Text in German.
The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1972). 1972 Printing. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xi, 163 pp. Full blue cloth, in original dust jacket. Uncommon in dust jacket.
Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache; Erster Teil: Elementar-, Formen-, und Wortlehre
Hannover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1966. Reprint. Large 8vo. xvi, 1127, [3 blanks] pp. Volume I only. Unaltered reprint of the Second Edition, Hanover 1912. Dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in blue typographic dust jacket. Text in German, & Latin. This copy belonged to Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls.....
Emmanuel; A Book of Prayer
New York: Benziger Brothers, (1944). Later Printing. 32mo. 301 pp. 3.5 x 5.25 in. Full black cloth, ornamented with a simple cross stamped in blind on upper cover, with green ribbon marker. A classic, especially handy Lasance prayer-book in large type. Imprimatur, &c. Text in English. A serviceable copy of.....
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Les Sept Familles du Lac Pipple-Popple [History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple]
[Paris]: Enfantimages / Gallimard, (1978). First Thus. Thin 8vo. 5.625 x 7.75 in. [28] pp. Glossy illustrated boards. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by ETIENNE DELESSERT. Translated into French by SIMONE LAMBLIN.
Mont Athos sur les chemins de l'Infini
(Paris): Philippe Rey, (2007). First Edition. Square 4to. 10.25 x 11.5 in. 215, [1] pp. Full blue cloth, titles in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color photographs by FERRANTE FERRANTI. Text in French. Jean-Yves Leloup, ex-Dominican, philosopher, psychologist and theologian, is a writer, lecturer and.....
Existence and the Existent
(New York): Pantheon, (1948). First Edition. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. [x], 148, [2] pp. Maritain's essay on Christian Existentialism, Court Traité de l'Existence et de l'Existant, translated by LEWIS GALANTIÈRE and GERALD B. PHELAN.
A Vow of Conversation; Journals 1964-1965
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xi + [i], 211 + [1] pp. Black quarter-cloth over paper boards, with dust jacket. Edited by Naomi Burton Stone, Merton's close friend and literary agent.
Vinni-Pukh i vse-vse-vse (Winnie the Pooh)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967. First Russian Edition. Small 4to. 6.75 x 8.5 in. 219, [5] pp. Full yellow cloth, titled in red on spine with a design of Pooh on upper cover. Illustrated with 7 full-page reproductions of color drawings, and several black & white drawings throughout, by B......
The Times Challenge Us
(St. Paul): (Wanderer), [c. 1946]. First Edition. Pamphlet. 4.75 x 7 in. 40 pp. Plain wraps printed in black, saddle-stitched. Complimentary slip laid in, 'with the compliments of Mr. William H. Regnery of Chicago', American Catholic textile manufacturer & father of Henry Regnery, conservative American publisher. Most Rev. ALOISIUS J......
Further Greek Epigrams; Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and Other Sources, Not Included in 'Hellenistic Epigrams' or 'The Garland of Philip'
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1981). First Edition. Royal 8vo. 6 x 9.375 in. xiv, 598 pp. Blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; in plain buff dust jacket printed in black & red. Revised & prepared for publication by R.D. DAWE & J. DIGGLE. An exceedingly fresh copy.
The Armor of Faith: A Prayerbook for Those in the Armed Services
Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Press, 1951. First Edition. 16mo. 4.125 x 6 in. [2], 142 pp. Full black cloth, with trefoil cross stamped in blind on upper cover. Contains 'To a Catholic Fighting Man'; 'A Warrior's Breastplate'; morning, day, & evening prayers; special prayers for the service man, the Ordinary.....
Secondary Education in the South
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xi, 269 pp. Dark blue cloth, in printed dust jacket. Published as part of The University of North Carolina Sesquicentennial Publications. UNC Press complimentary copy, with complimentary slip laid in.