Anglican 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

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: 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

"TO HAVE REMAINED INDEFINITELY AS AN ANGLICAN WOULD NOW MEAN FOR ME SPIRITUAL DEATH" First edition recounting Edward Charles Rich's 1956 "submission to the Catholic and Roman Church," in the original typographic dust jacket. Rich's Anglo-Catholicism grew into an Anglo-Papalism, driven by a desire for unity and a need for authority. The text, divided into nine chapters, concludes with Rich's epiphany:… Read more about this item