Original black cloth, intricately blind-stamped in feather pattern, on boards. Gilt spine lettering. No DJ. As a companion volume to Pilgrim's Progress. the brilliant, self-educated preacher lectures on the Christian experience in the form of military allegory; The losing and taking again of the town of "Mansoul"(Man's Soul). Three previous owners' names. 304 pp. View More...
Original pictorial cover paperback. Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur. What holiness is, holiness intended for all, holiness as a gift, faith demands surrender, faith and love the same. Sister Ruth Burrows is described as a well-regarded Carmelite author. This book is thoroughly underlined in light pencil, and there is a tiny black mark on the upper corner of the cover. 115 pp. View More...
Dark green cloth on boards with black embossed design on front cover, gilt lettering, and blindstamped design on rear cover. Previous owner's name. Tiny cracks (1/4 to 1/2" long) in endpapers at hinges. Last chapter is a list of hymn-writers with their birth/death dates and hymns written. 295 pp. View More...
Original blind-stamped blue cloth on boards. Young Miss Kizzie Griswold leaves her parsonage home in Killington to attend Mrs. Blake's school in Quinnipiac, where she is met with many challenges. Only reference I can find to these two stories is a reference to Atlantic Monthly (1859). This book is worn and has a short repaired tear at the spine foot. Both free endpapers are missing, and there are pencil figures on inside back cover. Quaint moralizing in stilted English. 225 pp. View More...
Original tweedy green cloth with gilt lettering on boards. Front hinge cracked. Glued. Previous owner's name. No author identification except "C. R." at end of epitaph. A puzzling piece, but obviously loved and read. Untrimmed edges quite foxed. 207 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with gilt lettering on boards. Swarthmore lecture for 1957. Dr. Cadbury was Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Harvard and a very active member of the Society of Friends. Cover title abraded. 48 pp. View More...
Original blue paperback. Translated by Henry Beveridge. Book Third, continued, The Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ; Book Fourth, of The Holy Catholic Church, One Hundred Aphorisms; and Index. 704 pp. No writing and no damage. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. No other writing or damage. Presentation bookplate upside-down in back. An introduction to many theologies of the present and past. 245 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Two small nicks in DJ. Top edges dusty. A number of sermons by a foremost preacher, first issued in 1937. 224 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth, elaborately blind-stamped, on boards. No DJ. By the author of "The Chronicles of the Schonberg Cotta Family," known to be Elizabeth Charles, an English author some of whose poems were favourably received by Tennyson. This book is in three parts, and as the preface points out, the three parts vary in their faithfulness to historical fact. The Cripple of Antioch "contains little local or historical colouring." In the second, "with the exception of 'The False Christ', only one historical person - Bishop Judas of Jerusalem - is introduced...." In the third, "The Days of... View More...
Original maroon cloth lettered in gold on boards. Translated by S.T. Otten. An "autobiographical" excursion down the well-beaten path, remembered with fondness and recorded in his waning years. 381 pp. A few light pencil notes on rear endpaper. View More...
Original red cloth with lettering and crest in gilt. Acadia University history in top-notch condition. Builds on Boggs's manuscript of 1912, which he gave to Chute, who edited and enlarged it. After publication in serial form in the Maritime Baptist it was finally brought together in this book. Several photo portraits accompany the text. There are no marks or damage, but a hint of foxing freckles decorates the foredges. 249 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Gift inscription/note inside front cover. This book gives the 300-year history of a Nonconformist London church destroyed by a bomb in 1940 during World War II. A 4-page leaflet by the author laid in describes the bombing, and the resolve that the church would be rebuilt. It was, and was re-opened in 1958. 288 pp. including Index. View More...
Purple cloth on boards. The Birth and Early Years of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist Points to Jesus Christ. Jesus Commences His Work in Galilee. Jesus Chooses Twelve Companions. Jesus Teaches in Parables. Jesus Travels North. Jesus Visits Jerusalem. The Growing Hostility. The Last Five Days of Jesus' Life. The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus. The Conquest of Death. Implications of the Resurrection of Jesus. 324 pp. View More...
Original red faux leather lettered in gilt with pictorial pastedown on boards. Text in French. Four colour plates and 12 smaller b/w/ line drawings. The story of Joan of Arc and her martyrdom in 1431. Photo shows abrasion to cover. Light edge foxing. Previous owner's initials only. 141 pp. plus Table des Matieres. View More...
Original black cloth over boards with red lettering and decoration on the spine. Black dustjacket has hot pink and white lettering and is not price-clipped. Previous owner's stamp and a newspaper clipping about a Sikh parade in BC inside front cover. The book is designed to allow non-Sikhs the chance to learn about the religion and its traditions. 210 pp. including Index. View More...
