Recent Arrivals from Star of the Sea Books

"THE REVERBERATION, EVEN AT THE OBLIQUE TOUCH OF A FINGERNAIL, OF THE GREAT CATHOLIC BELL" True first edition of Conor Cruise O'Brien's first book—written under the pseudonym Donat O'Donnell—not published in England until 1954. O'Donnell acknowledges in the short Preface that "many great writers have tried to answer the question whether imaginative literature can be Catholic." This question is at the… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Octavo (8 1/4 inches tall), original red cloth, gilt black labels to spine and front board, gray top edge, original dust jacket. Slight edge-wear. Near-fine. "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE CHURCH WRITTEN BY THE MOST CATHOLIC OF HER GREAT SAINTS" Modern Library edition of Saint Augustine's Theology of History, complete in the original dust jacket.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935 . First edition. Small octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Minor soiling to yellow cloth and top of textblock, trace of foxing to the fore-edge, dust jacket spine toned with creasing to the ends, modest soiling on both panels. Rare complete with original dust jacket. Very good indeed. FOUR SINGULAR CATHOLIC LIVES.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Thick octavo (9 5/8 inches tall), original black cloth, gilt spine and front board, cartographic endpapers, red top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Faint damp-stain to top edge, dust jacket with minor creasing to flap, slight edge-wear, small closed chip to bottom of front panel. A near-fine copy. First edition of… Read more about this item

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.

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1983. Second printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Mild bump to top corner, pale stain to top fore-edge of near-fine book, very good dust jacket with moderate edge-wear. Rare. "A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, SOBBING AND LOUDLY LAMENTING: IT WAS RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED BECAUSE… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Scribner's, 1951. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Bookseller's label. Toning to spine of dust jacket, crease and closed tear to top panel of jacket. About-fine. THE "CATHOLIC MOMENT" IN AMERICAN LETTERS First edition of this mid-century history of the modern American novel, from a distinctly Catholic perspective. World War II had initiated the decline of… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1958. Third edition. Small octavo (7 1/2 inches tall), original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Near-fine book with offsetting and bookseller notation in pencil to endpapers, small circular price-sticker residue to front panel of bright price-clipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "IN ZEN AS IN LIFE THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL WHICH ONE CAN HOLD ON… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, small chip, slight toning to spine of price-clipped bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS LORD, WHOM GANDHI… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. Year of publication in ink at base of title page, slight toning to spine and creasing to inner flap rear panel of dust jacket. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket. "THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND POLITICAL… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

New York: Aventine Press, 1931. Large octavo (9 3/4 inches tall), original brick cloth, gilt spine, brick top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle edge-wear, minor foxing to verso of original dust jacket. Near-fine. Aventine Press edition of Leaves of Grass, complete with the original illustrated dust jacket. The second volume of the Aventine Classics series, this edition was… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT" Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's lovely tribute to Mother Teresa. Based on the BBC documentary on… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE FIRST MODERN POPE" First edition of this first biography, by an American Marianist brother, of the first modern Pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait. Gioacchino… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Octavo, original purple cloth over lavender boards, original dust jacket. Upper right corner bumped. About-fine. "AS MY WHIMSICAL LORD TAKES ME" First Macmillan edition of these "simple, powerful reflections on the human condition in the scientific age," a splendid introduction to the mind of Dorothy L. Sayers. A jack-of-all-trades with the… Read more about this item