RARE BOOKS from Henry Stachyra, Bookseller

Pennsburg, Pennsylvania / Philadelphia: The Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church, The John C. Winston Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 200pp. Bound in original cloth with clear and bright gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Just a touch of wear to cloth, with a small, faintly… Read more about this item

Pennsburg, Pennsylvania: The Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church, 1924. Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 64pp. Actual date of publication is unknown. Circa 1924. "1924" handwritten in ink to lower front cover and a short handwritten note to lower part of dedication page. The note references the Minutes… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Internationale de L'Oeuvre de Saint Paul, 1895. Leather. Poor. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. (II) (leaves), (II) (2 blank leaves), x, 174pp., (II) leaves. Edition tiree a quatre-vingts examplaires sur papier velin a la forme (This edition is not numbered.) Includes engraved frontispiece and 36 (thirty-six) additional plates at end of volume.… Read more about this item

Paris / Mans: Gruel et Engelmann (Publisher) / Edmond Monnoyer (Printer), 1883. Leather. Very Good-. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. xvi, 656pp. Signed binding. This volume contains the Lamennais French translation of the Imitation and is followed by the Ordinary of the Mass in French and Latin. Bound in full, burgundy leather, with… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1899. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8pp. Short pamphlet. Covers admit to tiny chips, along with tears near joints, as well as some darkening near extremities. The volume will require some care in handling to maintain the integrity of the binding. Mild… Read more about this item

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Sisters of Providence, 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 167pp. This book contains poems by 6 nuns. Several minor dings to extremities and general light to medium wear to exterior, with a lightly worn paper label to front cover. Inscribed by Sr. Mary Viola to… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed, 1910. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 113pp., (ii). Limited edition 0f 985 copies. Signed by Peter Fenelon Collier's son, Robert J. Collier. All 31 called for mounted illustrations and portraits are present and in place. Exterior is bound in dark green, with a gilt decoration to… Read more about this item

St. Andre-Near-Bruges (Belgium) / London: Liturgical Apostolate, Abbey of St. Andre / Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 2 separate books, each bound in black with matching custom covers that are more or less a kind of "mosaic," with the word "Jerusalem" on each front cover. SAINT ANDREW… Read more about this item

Roma (Rome): Officina Poligrafica Laziale, 1963. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 16pp. Nicely illustrated with black and white photographs. Light to medium wear to extremities of volume, including several minor dings and creases. Text clean. Binding sound. RARE

Romae (Rome): Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, 1960. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (ii), 103pp. Bound in original wrappers. An ink-stamp to front cover. Ink-notes and marks to text. These are largely corrections of the printed text. Some lettering is faded from aging, though this is a relatively limited occurrence… Read more about this item

Boston / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1879. Leather. Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Two volumes Volume 1 published in 1879 and volume 2 published in 1882. Mildly ex-library, with no exterior library markings. Minor ink-stamps to interior. Pagination runs continuously through both volumes, with 16 pages… Read more about this item

Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2010. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 337pp. Limited edition, Number 83/150 of a special edition containing tipped in facsimile of a recently discovered draft of a letter from Mark Twin to one of his readers. Signed by both… Read more about this item

Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Sumptibus Societatis, 1745. Leather. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 2 volumes. Volume I: (iv), 531pp., (i) (Errata); Volume II: (iv), 323pp., (i), viii, 138p. Very nicely and newly rebound in 1/2 dark reddish brown leather over marble paper covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Bindings are strong.… Read more about this item

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Third Edition . Leather. Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. xvi, 245pp., (i) blank, 73 color plates. Mildly ex-library, with no exterior library markings on new binding. Volume admits to a mild cocking appearance, though this isn't offensive. Typical library treatments to title-page. Rebound in full cream colored… Read more about this item

New York / Camden, Gloucestershire, England / Norwood, Massachusetts: M. Walter Dunne/ Essex House Press / Plimpton Press, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. W.H. Hooper & Clemence Housman.. (xii), 386pp., (i). This is the Authorized American edition of the Prayer Book of King Edward VII. Blocks for illustrations were cut by… Read more about this item

London: Scolar Press, 1979. Leather. Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xxi + 363pp. + (ii). Book designed by Brian Dunce. Bound in 1/2 dark blue leather over grey cloth covered boards. Only a hint of wear to exterior of book. Some minor erasure marks to front free endpaper and front printer's… Read more about this item

Boston: James Loring, and Lincoln and Edmands, Cornhill, 1823. 6th Edition . Leather. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xxviii, 176pp., vii, 72pp. (Error in paging: page nos. xxv-xxviii repeated, such that actual pages xxix-xxxii do not have the correct page number on them. After the first 32 pages of printed text, there are… Read more about this item

Kobenhavn: Universitets-Jubilaeets danske Samfund, Akademisk Forlag, 1983. Facsimile . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 2 volumes: 184pp.; 287pp. Facsimile. Bound in original cream colored boards with black and red lettering to covers of volume 1 and black lettering to covers of volume 2. Several minor bumps to extremities of… Read more about this item

Torino: Tipografia Bianco, 1824. Leather. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes: 192pp.; 188pp. Preface by Carlo Giuseppe Mantegazza. Beautifully bound in full dark red leather armorial bindings with gilt lettering and decorations to spines. Gilt rule to borders of boards with lovely blind stamps to covers. All edges gilt.… Read more about this item