Search Results: Catholica - Philosophy from Heaven-Haven Books

Nearly fine copy in an unclipped jacket (original price of 2.25p to lower corner), denim cloth boards, gilt titles at spine. Some faint wear to edges of DJ and foxing to top edge of text. Scarce.

Slim 8vo, navy blue cloth with silver titles, 93pp. Stated second impression, October 1942. Price clipped dust jacket shows toning to panels, light chipping to edges. Binding sound and sharp, interior clean. The final collection of essays by Eric Gill, collected from Blackfriars, Catholic Herald, and other publications, expounding his distributist philosophy in the relationship of man to work and industry to art. Illustrated with woodcuts by Gill and an introduction by his wife Mary Gill. A handsome copy in mylar.

8vo, tan full cloth with brown titles, 367pp. Price clipped dust jacket. Reprint edition, from the original 1930 text. Boards show minor fading, toning to endpapers, dust jacket toned with a few small chips to edges. Firmly bound with clean text. An anthology of essays on Saint Augustine, first published on his feast day in 1930, the fifteenth centenary of his death. Includes essays by Christopher Dawson, Jacques Maritain, Erich Przywara, Etenne Gilson, Maurice Blondel, and various English Jesuits. A handsome copy in mylar. Scarce.

8vo, red buckram cloth with silver titles, red topstain 198pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7s 6d) shows minimal rubbing to panels, mild toning to pages. Firmly bound with clean text. A collection of essays by the Catholic artist, writer and typographer, examining the sacred and secular in modern art and industry, work and culture, ownership and industrialism, expounding the distributist philosophy of Gill, Fr Vincent McNabb and the Catholic coterie of Ditchling and St. Dominic's Guild. With original drawings and typography by the author. A handsome copy in mylar.

8vo (6 x 8) Catholic Literary Foundation Edition, 1st thus. Blue papered boards with gilt titles, 245pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (3.75) and shows minimal wear to edges, with minor loss to crown and heel of spine and abrasion to front flap edge. An attractive copy with clean text and firm binding, preserved in mylar. A miscellany of Bishop Sheen s thoughts on problems of modern life, from personal to global, with illustrations by Dik Browne of his chalkboard angel from Life is Worth Living. Essays such as The Psychological Effects of the Hydrogen Bomb , Religion in Russia , To Spank or Not to Spank , Is Self Expression Always Wrong? , The Russian Lullaby of Coexistence , etc. Rather uncommon Sheen title.

Stated First Printing. Tall 8vo, blue cloth with silver titles, 256pp. Nearly fine with a few faint scratches to cloth, ownership signature to front endpaper. Firmly bound with clean contents. Volume 28 in the Collected Works of Voegelin.

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 expounding principles of Catholic distributism, treating of art and aesthetics in relationship to modern industry and work. Illustrated with 12 pictures by Denis Tegetmeier. Typography and design by Gill. A handsome copy in mylar.