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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.

1st printing. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket. A series of essays by Voegelin outlining his career and evolution of ideas. Catholic philosopher and historian known for his monumental "Order and History" series as well as "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism."

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 131pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75). Reissue edition with Nobel Prize statement to rear panel. Dust jacket shows minimal edge wear and toning to panels and flaps, a small closed tear to rear. Pages clean and unmarked, binding solid. 'A verse play with a contemporary setting.' A nice copy.

8vo (5.5 x 8) Stated 1st edition. Black cloth with rosary wrapped lily escutcheon to front board, gilt titles at spine. 273pp. Lily and sacred heart motifs stamped to endpapers, bevelled page edges, top edge stained red. Near fine with light bumping to cloth at spine. Lacks the scarce dust wrapper.
A biography of St. Teresa of Avila by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, wife of G.K. Chesterton. In the first Chapter, she strikingly compares the vitalities of St. Teresa to that of her husband's famous nemesis, George Bernard Shaw. "These two great figures, the fervent Catholic, the fastidious Protestant, can join hans across the centuries in their persistent hunger for experience, their relentless courage toward life. Each soul flourish best in its fit soil, and the end for all is surely the attainment of an increasing and eternal growth."

Tall 8vo, stiff softcover wrappers, 95pp. First trade paperback edition, so stated with full number line. Wrappers slightly sunned and rubbed, binding firm, text clean. A bilingual selection of later poems translated by Alastair Reid. A handsome copy.

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 252pp, unpriced dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. Boards show mild spotting and foxing to text edges. Firmly bound with clean text, a nice copy.

8vo, stiff softcover wrappers, 111pp. Price of 1.25 to front wrap. Kentucky Writing No. 4. Prints Kentucky writers such as James Still, Jesse Stuart, Harriet Arnow and others, including a poem by Wendell Berry. A fine copy.

8vo, turquoise quarter cloth over matching paper boards, gilt titles, 355pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10.00). Ownership signature to front endpaper, else unmarked. Dust jacket shows mild shelf wear, a few small closed tears. Contents clean; binding firm. A collection of essays and short prose, including the celebrated 'Place in Fiction' and 'Must the Novelist Crusade?' A presentable copy.

8vo, softcover wrappers, 232pp. First issue. Spine slightly creased, wrappers toned. Firmly bound with clean text. A collection of lectures structured in five parts, edited by Hugh Price. A handsome copy.

8vo, black quarter cloth over orange papered boards, gilt titles, 401pp. Unclipped dust jacket (10.00). Stated First Edition. Signed by the author to the free front endpaper. Near fine with minor shelf wear to covers and boards. A nice copy in mylar.

8vo, lime green cloth with black titles, illustrated endpapers, 312pp. First American Edition, lacking the dust jacket. Spine is sunned with mild foxing to board edges of spine and top edges of cloth. Firmly bound with clean text. Waugh's third novel, a satire of African colonization and late British imperialism. A handsome copy.

16mo (5 x 7) 1st edition. Flexible black cloth with gilt titling, all edges stained red. 312pp. Cloth frayed at tail of spine with discreet rubbing to covers, with the front hinge separating at copyright page, though intact.
Binding firm with clean text.
Spiritual conferences, counsels and prayers for nurses and those discerning a vocation in nursing, for both men and women, written by Franciscan friar and popular devotional author Fulgence Meyer.
A rather uncommon copy of a specialty devotional, in serviceable shape.

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.

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Donald Davie, Wesleyan University Press, 1968. 2nd printing softcover edition, signed by Davie to ffep. A slim volume of gathered verse by the English Movement poet, formalist and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.

8vo, gold embossed paper boards, green titles, 118pp. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95). Stated First Edition. Slight rubbing to rear panel of dust jacket, else fine. A collection of lyrics and poems by the Kentucky country singer and songwriter of the famous 'Jackson' as sung by John & June Carter Cash. 'Out of all these folk singers comes one Billy Edd Wheeler, who is a poet' - John Jacob Niles, quote from rear panel. A fine copy in mylar.

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.

Small 8vo, white quarter cloth over blue marbled cloth boards, 206pp. Unclipped dust jacket ($2). Stated Third Edition, 1962. Dust jacket shows sunning to spine and rubbing to rear panel, small damp stain to cloth at spine edge, ownership signature to front endpaper. Firmly bound with clean text. A collection of interviews with William Faulkner upon his first visit to Japan in 1955. A handsome copy.

16mo, softcover wrappers, turquoise edge stain, 173pp. Popular Library Edition, first thus. Slight crease and slant to spine, light wear to edges, ownership signature to end page and advertisement page, initials to top and lower edge of text block. Else unmarked. Binding firm. A nice copy of the uncommon and collectible first pocket edition of Jackson's hallmark suspense thriller.

Stated 1st American Edition. Good in gray cloth with a few mildew spots to rear board and mild staining and foxing to text block. Dust jacket is unclipped (8.95) with a few small stains on its reverse as well as rubbing to rear panel. Else a very presentable copy. A landmark work of social criticism of medical bureaucracy by noted Austrian Catholic philosopher and priest. Scarce 1st issue.

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.