Search Results: Essays & Literary Criticism from Heaven-Haven Books

Stated first edition with full number line ending in 1. Fine in black papered boards with silver titles at spine. Unclipped dust jacket (24.00). Some foxing to top edge of text block, else fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket, preserved in mylar.

Tall 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 261pp. Unclipped dust jacket (14.95). Stated First Edition. Boards show minor fading, light rubbing to dust jacket. A landmark work of scholarship in the literary study of the Bible, surveying language, myth, metaphor and typology. An exceptional copy in mylar.

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.

One volume edition, bound in quarter calfskin and marbled boards, with decorative marbled endpapers and text edges. Corners show some light fraying and endpapers are lightly foxed & toned. Text is printed in columns with illustrations by Julian Portch. Included is a foldout facsimile of the Round Robin letter addressed to Samuel Johnson referencing the 'Epitaph for the Monument of Dr. Goldsmith.' A handsome 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, black cloth with gilt titles, 300pp. Stated 1st edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95), showing minor loss and wear to edges, toning and rubbing to panels. Minor rubbing and discoloration to cloth. Firmly bound with clean text. The Polish poet and Nobel Laureate's autobiography, written in a nonlinear construction. Translated from the polish by Catherine S. Leach. A handsome copy in mylar.

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, turquoise quarter cloth over tan papered boards, gilt titles, 208pp. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95). Stated First Edition. Ex library copy with stamping to fore and bottom edge of text block, title page, light residue and marking to rear endpapers. Light foxing to text block and toning to dust wrapper. Firmly bound with clean text. A critical survey of women writers and women in literature, from the Bronte sisters to Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. A handsome copy in mylar. Scarce.