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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth stamped in blue, photographic endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket. Small abrasion, gentle creasing and wear to corners and spine ends of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. First edition of this "lively narrative history of one of the country's earliest colleges" by the distinguished Jesuit historian and longtime member of the Georgetown faculty. The United States of America and Georgetown University, both established in 1789, essentially grew up together after the nation's capital was situated in Washington, D.C. This history was prepared by Father Joseph Durkin to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the college by Archbishop John Carroll. Composed of a Foreword (Robert I. Gannon, S.J.), Acknowledgments (George H. Dunne, S.J./Director, 17th Anniversary Program), The History, Presidents of Georgetown, Alma Mater. Abundantly illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait of Archbishop… Leer más

New York: Harper & Row, 1983. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, silver lettered spine, original dust jacket. Mild offsetting to front endpapers, faint rippling to otherwise fine, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy.

Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1985. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "A PILGRIMAGE OF CONSCIENCE" First edition of Drinan's collected "Writings and Addresses on Peace and Justice" with a Preface by President Jimmy Carter. Father Robert Drinan, S. J. was elected to the House of Representatives in 1970 on an anti-war platform. Drinan served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon Impeachment hearings and left Congress in 1980 when he resigned under pressure from his Jesuit superiors and the Vatican. Consists of Part I: International Human Rights, II: World Hunger, III: Arms Control, IV: Civil Rights, V: The Equal Rights Amendment. VI: The Death Penalty, VII: The Poor, VIII: Soviet Jews/Israel. Closes with a series of four Appendices on Watergate and the Nixon Administration.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Small octavo, original half gray cloth and brown paper boards, original dust jacket, uncut. Very faint tanning to blank flyleaves, owner signature to front pastedown, closed tear and crease to upper front panel, laminate lifting in lower corner, small smudge to rear panel, vertical crease to rear inner flap. A very good copy. "THOMISM IS IN A SPECIAL WAY A SPIRITUALISM, BY BEING A RADICAL THEOCENTRICISM: EVERYTHING COMES FROM GOD, MAINTAINS ITSELF AT GOD'S PLEASURE, AND RETURNS TO GOD" First English translation of this introduction to the speculative philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. First published in France in 1960 (by a Thomistic scholar at the Institut Catholique of Paris) this translation appeared in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council as part of Harper's Torchbook Series. Professor Grenier explains his objective in a brief Introduction: "We use 'Thomism' to refer to the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, to the exclusion of his scriptural… Leer más

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First edition. Octavo, original half black cloth over paper boards, original dust jacket. Ink remainder slash across bottom edge of text block, else fine. "A STATE EXISTS FOR ITS CITIZENS AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND." First edition in English of one section of Wyszynski's massive, unpublished Pro Memoria, composed while the Polish primate was imprisoned by the government, and published shortly after his death in 1981. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski was arrested late on the night of September, 25, 1953. Thus began an "internal exile" that was to last until he was freed after a coup in October, 1956. Wyszynski was never tried and he was moved often, to four different prisons in the four corners of Poland. The text begins with a Prison Calendar, with a corresponding map. Opens with "Freedom has continually to be won, it cannot merely be possessed," a lengthy quote from Karol Wojtyla's "Thinking My Country." Foreword by John Cardinal Kroll, archbishop of… Leer más

London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, touch of foxing to top edge, spine of dust jacket toned, pen slash through price on front flap. A near-fine copy. "THE RIGHTS OF MAN ON EARTH ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF GOD IN HEAVEN" (LORD ACTON) First edition of Fasnacht's survey of Acton, based on his extensive study of the Acton manuscripts housed at Cambridge University. With a Foreword by Sir Harold Butler, ten chapters ("The English and American Political Systems"), eleven appendices ("The Economic Factor"), a bibliography with a note on the scope of the Acton Mss., and an extensive index.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1970. First edition . Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth boards mottled, foxing to rear hinge, scattered faint underlining in pencil, modest soiling to front panel, small chip and faint creasing to back panel. Very good. First edition of Father Drinan's analysis of the Church's teaching on war in the context of Vietnam, complete with a photo of the author on the rear panel of the red-and-black dust jacket designed by Paul Bruner. A series of five appendices include a bibliography of books on Christianity and war, excerpts from John XXIII's Pacem in Terris, the statement on war from Vatican II, and statements by the American bishops in 1966 and 1968. Approbations.

South Bend and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, red top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some creasing to top of front panel. Near-fine. First edition in English of Hans Maier's study of the political upheavals of the 19th century, from the University of Notre Dame Press International Studies series. Consists of: Christian Democracy: Past and Present, Democracy and Church: The Revolutionary Attempt at Unity (1789-94), The Traditionalist Contradiction (1795-1829), Liberal Catholicism and Christian Democracy (1830-1850), Christian Democracy in the Ralliement (1891-1901). The text is prefaced with quotes by Tocqueville, Lacordaire, and Leo XIII. Translated by Emily M. Schossberger, with the author's Preface to the American Edition, dated "Munich/March, 1969." With an Appendix ("Liberal Catholicism," "Social Catholicism," "Christian Democracy"), an extensive Bibliography, and an Index.

Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 2005. First edition thus. Octavo, original navy paper boards, ribbon marker, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to edges of dust jacket, book and dust jacket both about-fine. Modern small press edition of The Little Flowers of St. Francis. A smart reprint of the 1915 edition, translated by H. E. Cardinal Manning and featuring 8 color-printed plates after paintings by F. Cayley-Robinson. Composed during the fourteenth century by several different authors, the Little Flowers consists of: Flowers of St. Francis, Life of Brother Juniper, Life of the Blessed Brother Giles or Egidius, Instructions and Notable Sayings of Brother Giles. With a Preface derived from the writings of Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First edition. Octavo, original half gray cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Book with just a trace of shelf wear, minor edge wear, small chip to fore-edge, small tears to rear flap of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "THE GREATEST LIVING THINKERS" First edition of this collection of essays as "Twenty of the world's outstanding thinkers reveal the deepest meanings they have found in life." With contributions by Bertrand Russell, Lewis Mumford, J. B. S. Haldane, Albert Schweitzer, Aldous Huxley, G. M. Trevelyan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Gustav Jung, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pitirim A. Sorkin, Karl Jaspers, Werner Heisenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ignazio Silone, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Neibuhr, William Ernest Hocking, Gabriel Marcel, Salvador de Madariaga, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Edited by Whit Burnett, with his Foreword "As a Dedication to Twenty Men.".

London: William Collins, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original white paper boards, original dust jacket. Fine."AFTER JESUS, PAUL IS THE KEY FIGURE IN THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN STORY" First edition of this extended dialogue on St. Paul between longtime friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Alec Vidler. Based on the five-episode BBC Television series from the previous year, the conversation is divided into sections headed: The Convert, The Christian, The Evangelist, The Missionary, The Martyr. Beautifully illustrated throughout with chapter-opening maps and 24 photographic color plates, including a double-page map, "Paul Journeys," and a frontispiece: "St. Paul being mocked by his audience" (a tenth-century illumination of a codex in the monastery of St. Gallen). The text is prefaced with "Variations on a Theme," a selection of quotes by prominent religious figures and closes with A. L. Lilley's prayer "Soul of St. Paul."

London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine."CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like Lord Acton, had a private income and an inexhaustible intellectual appetite for Catholic theology and history" (Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts). His mentoring and wide associations meant that he was swept up in the Modernist controversies that resulted in the excommunication of Alfred Loisy and George Tyrrell. With frontispiece portrait, dated 1903, and Foreword by Bishop B. C. Butler, who credits von Hugel with his own conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. With Whelan's Preface, dated "All Saint's Day, 1970," extensive Notes and a substantial Bibliography of works by and about von Hugel. De licentia… Leer más

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. , 1967. First edition. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with mild creasing to the foot of the spine of the dust jacket. Very good indeed. "MY SUBJECT IS WAR -- AND THE IMMORALITY OF WAR" First book edition of this collection of articles by Dr. Gordon Zahn, a continuation of a lifetime of advocacy for peace. Gordon Zahn was well-known as a conscientious objector during World War II (he would describe his experiences in Another Part of the War: The Camp Simon Story) and he was assigned instead to the Civilian Public Service program from 1942 to 1945. After the war he dedicated himself to the study of Pacifism and the Just War theory with a particular focus on the experiences of Germany and Austria under the Nazi regime. Zahn was involved in the debates during the Second Vatican Council over the language on war in "The Church in the Modern World" (Guadium et Spes).The essays are prefaced by Zahn's Foreword and are divided into three… Leer más

Boston: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1966. Second printing. Large octavo, original half red cloth over black cloth spine, original dust jacket. About fine. Second printing of Noonan's history of the classical and ecclesiastical views of contraception, published a year after the first printing. "The first account of the growth of the Church's doctrine from the first century to the present, the forces shaping it, its potentiality for development." The book consists of four parts: Part One. Shaping of the Doctrine 50-450, Part Two. The Condemnation Ingrained 450-1450, Part Three. Innovation and Preservation 1450-1750, Part Four. Development and Controversy 1750-1965. Noonan was a law professor at Notre Dame University and the Director of the Natural Law Institute. The work was awarded the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association in 1965. With Dedication in Latin, Noonan's Acknowledgments, dated "Rome, March 25th, 1965" and prefatory quote in Italian from Purgatorio. A… Leer más

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First edition thus. Octavo, original decorated orange cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner book label at bottom of front pastedown, partial splitting to inner paper hinge, cloth faded at edges, offsetting to rear endpapers, toning to spine and chipping to corners of dust jacket. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. "THE ART-LIFE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH" Later edition of the Finnish professor's classic work on the Theology of Art. First translated into English in 1912, Hirn's book consists of a short Introductory and a text divided into two main parts. The first section concerns the Liturgy and the Church: Catholic Art, The Altar, The Relics, The Reliquary, The Mass, The Holy of Holies, The Host, The Monstrance, The Tabernacle. The second half focuses on Mariology: The Dogma of Mary, The Gospel of Mary, Mary's Conception-Saint Anna. The Childhood of Mary, The Annunciation, The Incarnation, The Visitation, The Virginal Birth. The Holy Manger, The Sorrowing… Leer más

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967. First American edition. Large octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. A near-fine copy with only faint toning to spine and upper edge of front panel of the dust jacket. "PIUS XI WAS TOO EXALTED TO BE TOUCHED BY VANITY; AND WITH HIM IT WAS THE POPE, RATHER THAN HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL, THAT MATTERED" First American edition of this history of five popes, two of whom have been canonized. Falconi's Preface contrasts the death of Leo XIII on July 20, 1903 with the death of John XXIII on June 3, 1963, providing a "chronological compass" for the five subsequent chapters: Pius X: Giuseppe Sarto (1903-14), Benedict XV: Giacomo Della Chiesa (1914-22), Pius XI: Achille Ratti (1922-39), Pius XII: Eugenio Pacelli (1939-58), John XXIII: Angelo Roncalli (1958-63). Illustrated with a photo insert. Extensive Bibliographical Notes. Translated by Muriel Grindrod.

New York: Alba House, 1965. First American edition. Octavo, original red linen boards, original illustrated dust jacket. Book fine with short closed tear to top and faint toning to the bottom of dust jacket. About fine. First American edition of this biography of Augustine's formative years, centering on the Confessions, and illustrated with 3 plates. The text is prefaced by a passage from the Confessions (10:38), a Foreword, and an Introductory Note: The Confessions. "St. Augustine was the first Christian to regard human experience--notably his own life story--as the fit starting point for reflecting on God. The word 'confession' has two meanings. Both the confession of guilt and the confession of faith are implied in the title of Augustine's memoirs. In this work, he reflected on the meaning of his life in light of his most pivotal turning point his conversion and baptism in the Catholic church." (Robert Ellsberg, All Saints). Dust jacket, half-title, and frontispiece illustrated by Bro. Paul… Leer más

New Rochelle and New York: Arlington House, 1970. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near-fine blue boards are slightly dusty, bright and unfaded dust jacket with minor creasing to spine ends, two small chips to base of front panel, faint stains to both panels. Very good indeed. 'IT IS ALWAYS USEFUL, WHEN DOING WHAT ONE WANTS TO DO, TO DISCOVER A CONSTITUTIONAL IMPERATIVE" First edition of this alphabetical compendium of the Wit and Wisdom of William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley founded The National Review in 1955 and went on to author, "On the Right," a widely syndicated newspaper column, and host "Firing Line," a weekly television show. The title, with its sly reference to the "Quotations of Chairman Mao," illustrates Buckley's combative pleasure at using these platforms to puncture the liberal/left orthodoxies of the day. With David Franke's Compiler's Note. Franke was an early member of the conservative movement, holding editorial positions with The National Review, Arlington House, and the… Leer más

Washington, D. C.: Cistercian Publications/Consortium Press, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Small "St. Jos Abbey" price-sticker to bottom of front flap. Slight fading to edges of near-fine cloth, minor creasing and tears to spine ends of dust jacket. A near fine copy. "THE CONTEMPLATIVE ATTITUDE IS ONE OF OPENESS TO THE TRANSCENDENT" First edition collecting papers exploring the dual monastic aims of contemplation and community. Presented at the Third Cistercian Symposium at the Abbey of Notre Dame du Lac in the summer of 1971. The twelve contributions (by Cistercian, Benedictine, and Dominican participants) reflected a multi-disciplinary approach balancing perennial themes such as Scripture, Monastic Community and Monastic Tradition, Liturgy, and Theology together with modern academic perspectives integrating Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. The "concrete" purpose of the symposium was stated this way: "I am a Cistercian. I live in community. I am… Leer más

Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1949. First edition. Tall octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, slight edge-wear, faint crease to rear panel of price-clipped dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. "OPINIONS DIFFER WIDELY ABOUT LIBERTY" First edition of F. A. Harper's philosophy of post-war economic liberty. Dr. Floyd A. "Baldy" Harper's "occupation is economics; his preoccupation is liberty. His thinking here is offered as a stimulant to independent thinking, and as an antidote to collective apathy." (Editor's Note). The book is divided into three sections: Part One. The Design of Liberty, Part Two. On Measuring Liberty, Part Three. The Present Problem. With five Appendices. Reprints Abraham Lincoln's 1864 quote "The World has never had a good definition of Liberty" as a preface and on the back panel of the dust jacket.