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24379. Ackermann, Konrad, 1935-. Der Widerstand der Monatsschrift Hochland gegen den Nationalsozialismus. München, Kösel-Verlag, 1965, 211pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white woven cloth with black spine label, $29
The author particularly thanks his teacher Ulrich Noack. Though the Hochland archive was destroyed, Ackermann was still able to speak with many of the main players such as Schaezler and Bernhart.


25018. Adam, Karl, 1876-1966. The spirit of Catholicism. Translated by Justin McCann. Garden City: Image Books, Doubleday, 1954, later printing, 269pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $6
cover design by James Udell. .


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24450. Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988. Cordula oder der Ernstfall. Mit einem Nachwort zur zweiten Auflage. Einsiedeln : Johannes-Verlag, 1967, 127pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $30
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25050. Bartz, Wilhelm. Die lehrende Kirche; ein Beitrag zur Ekklesiologie M. J. Scheebens. Trier, Paulinus-Verlag, 1959, xviii, 188pp., very good sewn paperback, $30
Trierer theologische Studien, Bd. 9. Deals with Matthias Joseph Scheeben, 1835-1888.


26482. Béguin, Albert, 1901-1957. L’Ève de Péguy, essai de lecture commentée, suivi de documents inédits. Paris, Labergerie, 1948, 277pp., very good sewn paperback, some foxing on covers, paper browning but good, $25
Cahiers de l’amitié Charles Péguy, 3-4.


25140. Briem, Efraim, 1890-1946. Kommunismus und Religion in der Sowjetunion, ein Ideenkampf. Übersetzung aus dem Schwedischen von Edzard Schaper. Basel, F. Reinhardt, no date, around 1948, 434pp., very good white cloth, but some foxing, a few minor marks or marginal notes by previous reader, $15
Much on the struggle of the Church with communism, including purges of the 1930s and historical and theoretical diagnoses of communism.


26484. Comiti, Paulette. Le dieu de Péguy. Aix-en-Provence, La Pensée universitaire, 1955, 118 p. 21 cm., very good sewn paperback, some light foxing, $45
Publications des Annales de la Faculté des lettres. Sér. Travaux et mémoires, no. 1.


26483. Goldie, Rosemary. Vers un héroisme intégral dans la lignée de Péguy. Préface par Albert Béguin. Paris, Éditions de l’Amitié, 1951, 122 p. 24 cm, very good sewn paperback, some foxing or discoloring on covers, $25
Cahiers de L’Amitié Charles Péguy, 5.


24509. Grosche, Robert, 1888-1967. Wenn Du die Gabe Gottes kenntest. Fr./M.: Verlag der Carolus-Druckerei, 1930, 167pp., very good red cloth, spine a bit faded, $30
Mainly essays reprinted from the Rhein-Mainsche Volkszeitung, a particular haven for advanced Catholic thought in the late 1920s.


26577. Grosche, Robert, 1888-1967. Kommentar zum Römerbrief. Im Auftrag der Nachlassverwalter herausgegeben von Franz-Josef Hungs. Werl: Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, 1975, 202pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, slight foxing on foredge, $29
Substantial introduction by the editor on Grosche, ecumenic movement, Karl Barth, the commentary.


25051. Grosche, Robert, 1888-1967. Wenn Du die Gabe Gottes kenntest. Frankfurt: Verlag der Carolus-Druckerei, 1930, 167pp., well-preserved brown sewn paper wraps, $30
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23454. Grosche, Robert, 1888-1967. Paul Claudel. Hellerau: Jakob Hegner, 1918, 135pp., small white cloth, but with pencil notations and underlining scattered throughout, previous owner's inscription to Dr. P. Kämpten from R. von den Hoff, $19
Ursprünge - Speculator mundi - Actor scenae - Heide oder Christ - Symbol und Wort - Eros und Tod.


25647. Grosche, Robert, 1888-1967. Briefe an Frau v. J.. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Maria Steinhoff. Werl/Westfalen: Privatdruck: Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, 1970, 169pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $30
Herausgegeben unter Mitarbeit von Auguste Schorn, Hubert Luthe, Christian Pesch und Ludger Honnefelder.


18557. Guardini, Romano, 1885-1968. Zu Rainer Maria Rilkes Deutung des Daseins. Eine Interpretation der zweiten, achten und neunten Duineser Elegie. Bern, A. Francke [1946], Zweite Auflage, 122pp. 21 cm, very good paper-covered boards, slight wear, previous owner's name: H. Seckel / Jan. 1948, $15
Sammlung Überlieferung und Auftrag. In Verbindung mit Wilhelm Szilasi hrsg. von Ernesto Grassi. Reihe Probleme und Hinweise, Bd. 2.


13046. Guardini, Romano, 1885-1968. Vom Leben des Glaubens. Mainz: Mathhias-Grunewald-Verlag, 1935, 1.- 5. Tausend, 176pp., very good small white cloth, $40
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18764. Guardini, Romano, 1885-1968. Der Tod des Sokrates. Eine Interpretation der Platonischen Schriften Euthyphron, Apologie, Kriton und Phaidon. Hamburg, Rowohlt, 41.-50. Tausend, 203pp. 19 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $10
Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopädie, 27.


6057. Guardini, Romano, 1885-1968. Der unvollständige Mensch und die Macht. Würzburg: Werkbund-Verlag, 1956, 1.Auflage, 32pp., very good stiff wraps with dust-jacket, $15
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13044. Guardini, Romano, 1885-1968. Das Gebet des Herrn. Mainz, Matthias-Grunewald-Verlag [1934?], 2. durchgearbeitete Auflage, 157pp., very good small white cloth, spine label chipped, $25
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23182. Lowitsch, Bruno. Der Kreis um die Rhein-Mainische Volkszeitung. Mit einem Geleitwort von Oswald von Nell-Breuning. Wiesbaden: Steiner . Frankfurt a.M.: Knecht, 1980, viii, 142pp. 24 cm, very good sewn paperback, fresh copy, $35
Friedrich Dessauer, Heinrich Scharp, Walter Dirks, Werner Thormann, Joseph Wirth. Important archival study of the left-Catholic newspaper and group of publicists rarely mentioned in the larger histories.


3817. Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973. Du régime temporel et de la liberté. Paris: France]: Desclee de Brouwer, 1933, x, 268pp., very good sewn paper wraps, previous owner's name, $45
Questions disputees. 11.


26087. Muth, Karl, 1867-1944. Die Wiedergeburt der Dichtung aus dem religiösen Erlebnis. Gedanken zur Psychologie des katholischen Literaturschaffens. Kempten und München: Jos. Köselschen Buchhandlung, 1909, 172pp., very good original sewn paper wraps, orange, but with tiny pinhole in cover through first 30 pages, some neat pencil underlining in the first 8 pages, otherwise good clean, solid copy, $45
Important work by Catholic publicist and founder of the journal Hochland. Continues his literary dispute of the late 1890s. Contents: Der Eintritt der Katholiken in die Literatur - Literarische Kämpfe - Ultraschriftsteller - Theologie und Dichtkunst - Konfession und Dichtung - Das Ewig-Weibliche und die Kunst - Was ist christliche Dichtung? - Klassisch oder romantisch? - Modernität - Schöpferische Kritik - Von "schaffenden Autoren" - Was bedeutet eine Literatur?.


13817. Muth, Karl, 1867-1944. Die Wiedergeburt der Dichtung aus dem religiösen Erlebnis. Gedanken zur Psychologie des katholischen Literaturschaffens. Kempten und München: Jos. Köselschen Buchhandlung, 1909, 172pp., good private half-cloth with original wrappers glued to covers front and rear, boards warped, some bubbling to rear endpapers, library stamps on several pages and neat foil label on spine, a few minor pencil notations in text, $45
Important work by Catholic publicist and founder of the journal Hochland. Continues his literary dispute of the late 1890s. Contents: Der Eintritt der Katholiken in die Literatur - Literarische Kämpfe - Ultraschriftsteller - Theologie und Dichtkunst - Konfession und Dichtung - Das Ewig-Weibliche und die Kunst - Was ist christliche Dichtung? - Klassisch oder romantisch? - Modernität - Schöpferische Kritik - Von "schaffenden Autoren" - Was bedeutet eine Literatur?.


9993. Muth, Wulfried C.. Carl Muth und das Mittelalterbild des Hochland. München: Kommissionsbuchhandlung R. Wolfle, 1974, ix, 429pp. : ill.. 21 cm., large PAPERBACK, the most extensive study of the contents of the important Catholic journal (published until 1941), making use of archives, $50
Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia. Heft 43. Neue Schriftenreihe des Stadtarchivs München. Bd. Nr. 61. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Munich.


25940. Nyssen, Wilhelm, 1925-. Echo des Heils in der Landschaft der Seele : die Trapeza im Ostkirchlichen Institut in Regensburg, ausgemalt von Gheorghe Ciobanu aus Rumänien. Köln: Luthe-Verlag, 1985, 79pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, with black and white and color photographs, $19
Schriftenreihe des Zentrums Patristischer Spiritualität KOINONIA im Erzbistum Köln, 19.


3753. Pfeilschifter, Georg, 1870-1936, hrsg. Deutsche Kultur, Katholizismus und Weltkrieg. Eine Abwehr des Buches La Guerre allemande et le Catholicisme. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1916, 11es bis 13es Tausend, 494pp., very good gray cloth, $40
Includes essays by Goetz Briefs (Staat, politische Freiheit und Militarismus in Deutschland), Heinrich Finke, Karl Hoeber, Karl Muth (Ads Allgemeinmenschliche in deutscher Art und Kunst), Hermann Platz, and others.


6604. Platz, Hermann, 1880-1945. Geistige Kämpfe im modernen Frankreich. München/Kempten: Jofef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet, 1922, 672pp., gray half cloth, white boards, pages browning slightly but still a solid copy; publisher's stamp and Univ. Eichstätt stamp on title page and last page, otherwise clean, $55
Platz: 1880-1945. Gerhard Bott calls him the most influential representative of a humanistic Kulturkunde among German Romanists, next to E.R. Curtius. Wrote intellectual history with ecumenical intentions, including German-French reconciliation, raising Geist over Rasse or Raum as basis for commonality.Broad intellectual history of conflicts in France after 1871, over nationalism, religion, literature. The usual heroes of German conservative Romanistik: Barrès, Maurras, Taine, Maistre, Sangnier, Péguy, but supplemented by much historical material. Walter Benjamin recommended the book to his publisher Richard Weißbach in a 1923 letter.


13039. Platz, Hermann, 1880-1945. Pascal in Deutschland. Kolmar im Elsass: Alsatia Verlag, no date, circa 1944, 302pp., very good sewn paper wraps, previous owner's stamp, $35
Includes chapters on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Pascal, Nietzsche and Pascal, Scheler and Pascal.


13949. Platz, Hermann, 1880-1945. Pascal in Deutschland. Kolmar im Elsaß: Alsatia-Verlag, no date, circa 1944, 302pp., very good small sewn paper wraps, previous owner's name, $20
With chapters on relationship of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Nietzsche, and Scheler to Pascal. The volume was reprinted in 1990.


12419. Schneider, Reinhold, 1903-1958. Das Leiden des Camoes: oder, Untergang und Vollendung der portugiesischen Macht. Hellerau: Jakob Hegner, 1930, 242pp., pretty white and black woven cloth, large elegant type (holländische Schriften von 1670), $50
First edition.


13156. Wachinger, Lorenz, hrsg. Joseph Bernhart, Leben und Werk in Selbstzeugnissen. Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1981, 404pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, some foxing, $45
Bernhart, Joseph, 1881-1969.


12465. Watkin, E. I., 1888-. Catholic art and culture. New York, Sheed & Ward, 1944, 226pp., worn dust-jacket, a bit soiled, some foxing, good blue cloth, a bit worn, some foxing, $25
The Classical Autumn, The Christian Spring - Summer: Medieval Christendom - Late Summer: The Renaissance - Autumn: The Age of Baroque - Winter: The Modern World.