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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 statement. Dust jacket in uncommonly vibrant shape with only a very slight nick to front flap edge of front panel, light wear to edges and toning to rear panel, and a faint spot of discoloration to lower corner of rear flap and panel. Firmly bound with clean text. A wonderful copy in mylar.

8vo, red papered boards with black titles, 311pp. Book Club Edition, first thus. Ex library copy with stamping to endpapers and title pages successive through text, card pocket residue to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Dust jacket shows mild wear to edges, sunning to spine, tape residue to flaps, light rubbing to panels. A post apocalyptic dystopian novel of a Catholic monastery charged with preserving civilization after a nuclear fallout. Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel; a classic of contemporary science fiction and Catholic literature. A well preserved copy in mylar.

8vo (6 x 9) 1st printing. Red papered boards with gilt titles, 175pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (4.00), showing a spot of residue and loss to front cover. Firmly bound with clean text; a handsome copy.
The collected verse of the "lady abbess of nun poets", literature scholar and president of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana and a distinctive 20th century voice in conventual and religious poetry. Uncommon in hardcover.

8vo, red cloth with gilt titles, 175pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.00), stated first printing. Inscribed by the author to the free front endpaper. Dust jacket shows edge wear to covers with some loss to head and tail of spine, rubbing to rear panel. A gathering of poems by the contemporary religious lyric poet and and Sister of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. A nice copy in mylar.

16mo (5 x 7.5) Limited issue. Stiff yellow boards, 6pp. Sewn page leaves with a black and white wood cut drawing by Ditchling artist and typographer Eric Gill. Boards show some minor rubbing and toning, contents are nearly fine. Chesterton s chorus from an unfinished play , a Christmas poem published here for the first time by Faber and Faber in the Ariel Poems series. No. 5 in the series, copy numbered 267 out of 350 to the colophon. A list of titles follows the text of the poems. A beautiful copy of a very scarce, very collectible Chesterton work, and additionally a rare collaboration with Gill.

8vo, orange cloth with green titles, 238pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.75) has been laminated, showing creasing to flaps and shelf wear to edges. Collected letters of the English Catholic mystical writer and artist, edited by Houselander biographer and publisher Maisie Ward. A serviceable copy.

8vo, red cloth with black titles, 232pp. Boards show mottling and discoloration to top edge, endpapers toned with ownership plate. Price clipped dust jacket shows a few soil marks, toned spine, light chipping to edges. Text clean, binding firm. Short essays and meditations on great literature, from the Ancient Greeks to Hillaire Belloc, by the British Monsignor Ronald Knox, Biblical translator, theologian, author, friend and associate of the novelist Evelyn Waugh.
A handsome copy in mylar.

8vo (6 x 8.5) Early printing, copyright 1942 with no additional printings listed. Wheat colored cloth with red titles, 271pp. Slight bowing to boards, discreet foxing t text block and mild rubbing to endpapers, discreet signature to rear endpaper. Dust jacket is unclipped (4.25) A presentable copy in mylar.
A novel about a heroic Catholic mendicant brother in France during the Calvinist Huguenot persecutions, featuring much beautiful prose detailing the Tridentine Mass. A nearly forgotten novel by a little known author recently rediscovered and reprinted by Angelico Press. Very scarce in dust wrapper.

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 86pp. Unclipped dust jacket (1.25). Second American Edition, First Thus, with note of January 1936 note of revision stated opposite copyright page. Ownership signature to front endpaper, and discreetly to title page, else unmarked. Toning to pages, endpapers. Dust jacket sunned at spine with a few chips to edges, closed tear to front panel at head of spine. Panels age toned. Eliot's famous dramatization of the medieval murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. A handsome copy in mylar.

16mo (5.25 x 7.5) White cloth over pictorial gray papered boards, gilt titles, 101pp.About fine with slight bumping to corners and mild rubbing to spine and boards. A nativity play by Monsignor Benson, notable English Catholic convert, priest and author of Lord of the World , with illustrations by Gabriel Pippet. Includes appendices with instructions for scenery, costumes, character descriptions and method of acting. A near pristine copy of a beautifully printed book.

Small 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and floral stamping, gilt topstain, deckled pages, 156pp. First edition. Frontispiece photograph of the author by Hector Murchison with intact tissue guard. Boards mildly rubbed, lower corners bumped, ownership signature to front endpaper. Binding sound, contents clean. Chesterton's first published volume of collected verse. Includes his ballads, love poems, war poems, rhymes, and religious verse, including the celebrated Lepanto poem, A Song of Swords, Love's Trappist, and others. A handsome copy, protected in an acetate sleeve.

8vo, purple cloth with gilt titles and bordering, 86pp. Stated second impression, 1915. Minor fraying to cloth at spine, ownership marking to flyleaf and rear pages following text, pages age toned. Firmly bound with clean text. The first volume of poetry by the Catholic monsignor and author of Lord of the World, with a note of introduction by Wilfred Meynell. A nice copy.