Religion from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Paris: Les Editions du Chêne, 1949. Hardcover. 4to. Brown paper over boards with gilt lettering. 30pp, (ca. 100pp). Color frontispiece, map, numerous illustrations (many color tip-ins). Very good. Minor binding wear; internally tight and fine; lacks dust jacket. Sharp first edition of this in-depth study of 12th century Fench religious frescoes. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. xviii, 526pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine. Sans jacket, else a tight and nice copy. A tight, attractive later printing of #70, first published in 1936 and here undated (though binding and endpaper details suggest this copy late 1950s).

Brooklyn: Confraternity of the Precious Blood, 1952. Hardcover. 24mo. Limp full green leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 630pp. All edges gilt. Two sewn-in green (one light, one dark) satin page markers. Fine. Pristine first of this edition, an abridged and simplified version of the 13th century Italian theologian's magnum, the Summa Theologica, a vast compilation of the Catholic Church's… Ler mais sobre este item

Paterson, NJ: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1941. Hardcover. 4to. Full black levant morocco, gilt lettering, raised bands, inner dentelles, ornate green levant morocco doublures, green moire silk front/rear flyleaves. viii, 762pp. Top edge gilt. 3 color maps, color floor plan. Fine. Pristine first of this edition, "A Revision of the Challoner-Rheims Version Edited by Catholic Scholars Under the Patronage… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. xii, 441pp. Figures. Fine/fine. Immaculate fourth printing of an in-depth analysis of this most ancient of all surviving ancient Greek papyri, discovered in Macedonia in 1962 and the subject of intensive reconstruction and analysis ever since. These many carbonized fragments, written in the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Photographs by Bert Koch. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 80pp. Color frontispiece, diagram, numerous illustrations, numerous tipped-in color plates (a couple foldouts). Fine/near fine. Outstanding first edition of this close examination of the early 16th century sculptural triptych masterpiece attributed to Matthias Grünewald and Nikolaus of Haguenau… Ler mais sobre este item

Ipswich: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Translation by J.G. Pilkington. Introduction by George N. Schuster. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and gilt-lettered front board calf label with natural linen boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xxx, 296pp. Full-page color plates, color pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. This hefty LEC production of the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux vellum with gilt lettering, slipcase with wraparound paper label. (Ca. 75pp). 32 full-page color plates, single sepia-tone plate. Near fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear only. Handsome first of this edition, introduced by the Metropolitan's noted director and with Cloisters curator Margaret B. Freeman providing… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: George Braziller, Inc, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Faux vellum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering and front board device, slipcase with paper label. 359pp. Extensive full-page color plates. Near fine/near fine. Tiniest smudge on title page. Handsome undated later printing of this 1960 edition, almost all of its 160 gorgeously calligraphed, rubricated and illuminated leaves face-to-face with… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 144pp. Near fine/near fine. Text block would rate fine but for a modest amount of pencilled and inked margin notes and front flyleaf inkstamped name/address. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the Wiles Lectures delivered at Queen's University in Belfast in 1963… Ler mais sobre este item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 183pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. First edition, superb and tight.

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. viii, 415pp. Tables. Fine. Tight, superb first edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 280pp. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine ever so faintly sunned. Handsome early (not first) printing, exceptionally tight and bright.

Salem, NH: Ayer Company, Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Mustard buckram with black spine lettering. 150pp, (2pp ads). Illustrations, line drawings. Fine. Pristinely tight and nice facsimile reprint of this study of an ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, first published by CWK Gleerup in Lund, Sweden in 1957. Surprisingly and weirdly scarce.

Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1996. Paperback. Translation by Robin Waterfield. Foreword by Keith Critchlow. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 130pp. Near fine. Tight and near pristine second printing of the softbound edition.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 214pp. Fine/fine. Front flyleaf ownership signature. Pristine third printing.

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1970. Hardcover. Foreword by Frederick C. Grant. 8vo. Salmon cloth with black spine lettering. xxxv, 359pp. Very good. Spine faintly sunned; ownership signature on half-title page and a few sentences on a dozen or so pages underlined. Tight and clean facsimile reprint of this 1957 study.

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. Hardcover. Illustrations by Henry P. Riviere and Joseph Pennell. 12mo. Green cloth with black spine lettering and decoration. xvii, 618pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and small text illustrations. Very good. Tight and clean, with text block near fine. First American edition of this thick study and one of the last books by… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: John Basket, 1727. Hardcover. Folio. Modern rebind in black leatherette with gilt spine lettering and new endpapers. Unpaginated. Two engraved frontispieces, historiated initials, two small engravings, single large foldout map ("Map shewing ye Situation of Paradice"). Modern rebind is pristine and tight; text block very good overall, with only the first few and last few leaves a tad… Ler mais sobre este item

Allentown, PA: Trexler, Harlacher und Weisser, 1864. Paperback. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. 94pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a bit age toned, with a couple small edge chips; lacks rear folding chart found in some copies. Sharp copy, entirely in German, for this annual assembly of the German Evangelical-Lutheran Ministry of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States. This yearly report records… Ler mais sobre este item