Literature 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: 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

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

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: Macmillan, 1983. Later edition. Octavo, original pale green boards over brown cloth, original dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers, gentle bump to top corner. An about-fine copy. "THE MOST COMPLETE STANDARD EDITION OF THE NOBEL LAUREATE'S VERSE" First printing of this comprehensive critical edition of William Butler Yeats's poems, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Authorized by Anne and… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First edition thus. Octavo, original decorated orange cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner book label at bottom of front pastedown, partial splitting to inner paper hinge, cloth faded at edges, offsetting to rear endpapers, toning to spine and chipping to corners of dust jacket. A very good book in a very good dust jacket.… Read more about this item