Modernism 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… Ler mais sobre este 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… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1908. First edition. Very Good. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. Minor spotting to spine, gilt bright, gentle wear to corners and spine ends, moderate soiling to top edge of text block. Very good indeed. "THE MODERNIST CONTROVERSY" First edition of this collection of essays on… Ler mais sobre este item

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… Ler mais sobre este item

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… Ler mais sobre este item