New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1937. First Edition. Biography of the Roman Catholic Priest and supporter of Henry George and the Single Tax movement. McGlynn would go so far as to found the Anti-Poverty Society for which he would be excommunicated between 1887 and 1892. EGBERT II, p. 319. Octavo (21cm.);..... More

Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. First Edition. Apparently a mixed issue: covers are Gill's third variant (without the crossed-out price), but title page (rules) and pagination (p.5) conform to the earlier state. Since the wrappers on our copy are undersized by about 1/4", it seems plausible that this copy may have..... More

Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo. Original printed thick-paper wrappers; xvii, 450pp. Mild external toning and wear, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title, dated 1956. McColgan a Catholic priest from Boston; this was his doctoral dissertation, a scholarly study of the..... More

New York: Liberty Publishing Co., 1909. First, Limited Edition. No. 876 of 999 hand-numbered copies. Author's inscription to front endpaper: "To Mr. Alfred Wiehl with compliments," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Green cloth, titled in gilt; 231pp; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. A tight, Near..... More

Boston: Rufus Leighton, Jr, 1859. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth; gilt spine title; 182pp + 3pp ads. A bright, unworn copy, remarkably free of wear; Near Fine. Upon leaving his pastorate due to failing health 1859, Parker was presented with an adulatory letter of thanks by..... More

New York: Grove Press, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. US Edition, uncorrected bound galleys. Octavo (21cm); lime green wrappers, titled in black on the cover. 137pp. Light wear only, about Fine. Author's first novel and winner of the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. "The twilight world of adolescent..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Second Edition, Revised. Octavo. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; xi, 404pp. Straight, tight, Very Good or better, free of markings or significant wear. Ownership signature ("Howard Finney, Upper Montclair, NJ") to front endpaper. Social and economic justice from the viewpoint of a Catholic theologian..... More

New York: Humboldt Publishing Co., [1891]. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's cream decorative wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,[2],160,[2],[6](ads)pp.; three folding chart plates. A few small losses to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good, lovely but fragile copy. Cheap abridged edition issued as The Social Science Library..... More

[Galva, IL: by the Colony, 1909]. First Edition. Rather uncommon souvenir volume produced some fifteen years after the events described; adapted from a series of articles published in 1896 in the Galva Weekly News. Includes many historical photographs, a history of the colony, and speeches delivered on the occasion by..... More

New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1919. First Edition. Proposal for municipal collectivism, federal democracy, and political pluralism by Christian socialist and founder of the "Church of the Social Revolution." White was by this time an ex-member of the Socialist Party of America, having been removed in 1914 for his..... More