Bright orange cloth on boards, with colour pastedown of three wise men at Jesus's birth. Numerous illustrations from this publisher who has supplied churches everywhere with portraits of biblical figures. 366 pp. with index. Exceptionally sound, clean condition. View More...
Original bright red cloth on boards. Foster is apparently associated with Fort Fairfield, Maine, but no further information could be found. This book of ten sermons was intended to be the first of three volumes. 215 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. General shallow wrinkling due to moisture. Now dry. Previous owner's name. DJ flaps laid in. Third and last volume of a set, later republished in four volumes and/or a single volume in four parts. 345 pp. with index. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Spot of dry, shiny substance on cover (See photo). Previous owner's name. Commentary on the addresses of Peter, Paul. and James as recorded in the Book of Acts. 258 pp. plus ads. Dr. Fraser served a substantial congregation of "Seceders" at Kennoway for 42 years or more. He was widely known as an author, especially as a biographer of the Erskines, fathers of Secession. View More...
Tan cloth on boards. DJ has short tears. Specks of ink on front edges. Three men testify as to the outstanding work of Rev. John Geddie at home and abroad. 83 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering on boards. A well-documented account of the conversion of a Hindu to Christianity. Not easy to follow, for the author warns, "I know I must ask those who are to read the recital to walk in a winding way." - Preface. Binding is strained; not separated. Three small unrepaired edge tears. An excellent source for any student of Hindu tradition as well as for evangelistic Christians. Patterned endpapers with evidence of paper label removed. 87 pp. View More...
Original blue blind-stamped diamond design in cloth on boards. Gilt spine titles. Frontispiece and two more engravings. Ellen, the farmer's daughter, takes an interest in teaching the itinerant hop pickers, with religious overtones. Previous owner's name and date, 1861. Resembles a Tract Society book. Obviously posthumous, since author is referred to as "The Late." Could find no bio on this author. Mild foxing, waterstain, and corner wear. 86 pp. View More...
Original photo cover boards backed in red cloth. Photos from BOAC and Vickers-Armstrong. Written for 14-18-year-olds, with a decided religious bent. Several full-page photos of Vickers Viking aircraft and one of a Lockheed Lodestar. Small piece of surface paper missing from corner of rear cover. No writing and no other damage. Ca. 1945. 72 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth with "Premium Library" in gilt and floral design in yellow and green on boards. Circa 1880, the story is based on the great fire of 1666. The author, born into Anglican nobility, converted to Roman Catholicism and wrote several religious novels. Previous owner's name and normal cover soil. 186 pp. View More...
Original maroon blindstamped cloth lettered and decorated in black on boards. The author trained for the ministry, authored a periodical, and eventually became a Baptist preacher in Ohio. He wrote several additonal anti-Roman Catholic books. 415 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Signed by the author. No other writing or damage. The author transferred from Clapham Congregational Church, London, to Deer Park United Church, Toronto. This book recalls vivid memories from Clapham, especially interaction with a nearby monastery. 107 pp. View More...
A gathering of various publications issued by Rev. William Gadsby in the early portion of his 38-year-ministry at the chapel in Manchester. The majority of the works deal with strict Baptist doctrine. Nearly all were printed by Henry and Robert Smith, Manchester, between 1816 and 1826. Approx. 600 pp. Binding is sound and square, showing normal wear to covers. Some titles are: The Perfect Law of Liberty; Gawthorn Brought to the Test; Lines in Praise of Free Will; A Dream; Christ the Believer's Breakwater; Sandemanianism; and An Address to the Regenerated Church of Christ. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ edgeworn. The author was at time of writing a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, former editor of the Catholic Review, and a graduate student in guidance and counseling. 160 pp. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Two sentences (only) in the Preface lightly underlined in pencil, otherwise clean and undamaged. Two hundred seventy-one large, mainly full-page, photos of 11th and 12th Century religious buildings, and eight maps. Perhaps the reader will be led to see them with his or her own eyes. Related clipping laid in. 80 pp. text followed by 271 illustrations. Translated from the German. Heavy book will need extra postage. View More...
Original dark blue blindstamped cloth lettered in gold on boards. Fifty-nine colour plates after Warwick Goble. Top edges gilt. Three plates re-inserted. The heart-rending story of the destruction of the abbeys in 1535-1536 by Henry VIII's Bill of Suppression, carried out by Thomas Cromwell. Students of history, religion, and architecture alike will profit from a serious study of this book. Previous owner's name. 378 pp. View More...
Original bright blue pictorial cloth blindstamped and lettered in gold on boards. This British author was best known for her books on astronomy for children, but dabbled in morality novels for the Tract Society as well. Previous owner's name, otherwise in exceptionally good, clean, sound condition. 249 pp. View More...
Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. The first volume of a three-volume set. Nilil Obstat and Imprimatur. Previous owner's stamp. The two subsequent volumes deal with the Old Testament and New Testament, respectively, and were in preparation at time of publication of this volume, which appears to be a First Edition. 606 pp. with index, plus 16-page catalog. View More...
