Catholica - Literature from Heaven-Haven Books

8vo, red cloth with gilt titles, 175pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.00), stated first printing. Inscribed by the author to the free front endpaper. Dust jacket shows edge wear to covers with some loss to head and tail of spine, rubbing to rear panel. A gathering of poems by the contemporary religious lyric poet and and Sister of the Congregation of… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

8vo (6 x 8.5) Early printing, copyright 1942 with no additional printings listed. Wheat colored cloth with red titles, 271pp. Slight bowing to boards, discreet foxing t text block and mild rubbing to endpapers, discreet signature to rear endpaper. Dust jacket is unclipped (4.25) A presentable copy in mylar. A novel about a heroic Catholic mendicant brother in France during the… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

16mo (5.25 x 7.5) White cloth over pictorial gray papered boards, gilt titles, 101pp.About fine with slight bumping to corners and mild rubbing to spine and boards. A nativity play by Monsignor Benson, notable English Catholic convert, priest and author of Lord of the World , with illustrations by Gabriel Pippet. Includes appendices with instructions for scenery, costumes, character descriptions… Read more about this item

16mo (5 x 7.5) Limited issue. Stiff yellow boards, 6pp. Sewn page leaves with a black and white wood cut drawing by Ditchling artist and typographer Eric Gill. Boards show some minor rubbing and toning, contents are nearly fine. Chesterton s chorus from an unfinished play , a Christmas poem published here for the first time by Faber and Faber… Read more about this item

Small 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and floral stamping, gilt topstain, deckled pages, 156pp. First edition. Frontispiece photograph of the author by Hector Murchison with intact tissue guard. Boards mildly rubbed, lower corners bumped, ownership signature to front endpaper. Binding sound, contents clean. Chesterton's first published volume of collected verse. Includes his ballads, love poems, war poems, rhymes, and… Read more about this item

8vo, purple cloth with gilt titles and bordering, 86pp. Stated second impression, 1915. Minor fraying to cloth at spine, ownership marking to flyleaf and rear pages following text, pages age toned. Firmly bound with clean text. The first volume of poetry by the Catholic monsignor and author of Lord of the World, with a note of introduction by Wilfred Meynell.… Read more about this item

8vo, orange cloth with green titles, 238pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.75) has been laminated, showing creasing to flaps and shelf wear to edges. Collected letters of the English Catholic mystical writer and artist, edited by Houselander biographer and publisher Maisie Ward. A serviceable copy.

8vo, red papered boards with black titles, 311pp. Book Club Edition, first thus. Ex library copy with stamping to endpapers and title pages successive through text, card pocket residue to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Dust jacket shows mild wear to edges, sunning to spine, tape residue to flaps, light rubbing to panels. A post apocalyptic dystopian novel of a Catholic… Read more about this item

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 86pp. Unclipped dust jacket (1.25). Second American Edition, First Thus, with note of January 1936 note of revision stated opposite copyright page. Ownership signature to front endpaper, and discreetly to title page, else unmarked. Toning to pages, endpapers. Dust jacket sunned at spine with a few chips to edges, closed tear to front panel… Read more about this item

8vo, stamped red cloth with black titles, 351pp. The true First American Edition, which is by a publishing anomaly the Book Club Edition, issued in an unpriced dust jacket with the date of 1945 to title page and 1944,1945 listed to copyright statement. Dust jacket in uncommonly vibrant shape with only a very slight nick to front flap edge of… Read more about this item