Religion
New York:Harper & Row Publishers. (1975), 1st edition. 273pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are in very good, to near fine condition.
$25.00
Boston: Charles H. Peirce. 1848. Harcover, no jacket. 490pp. Olive stamped cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration to spine. Good condition. Boards are moderately worn, with fabric wear through at the tips. Some dust spotting to page edges. Foxing at the front and back, and very heavy on the title page and frontis. Most of the remaining is pretty clean with scattered foxing and no markings. Binding is square and secure, though one signature is a bit loose. "Biographical notices of its early preachers, sketches of its first churches, and reminiscences of its early struggles and successes." (cfm)
$25.00
New York:Thomas W. Crowell and Co. 1885. 1st American edition. xii+274pp. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled with shelfwear along edges and spine ends. Internally, decorated endpages clean with a previous owners name embossed on 1st free endpage, as well as top of title page (over title), but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.
$35.00
[Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press Incorporated. 1965.] Hardcover, no jacket as issued. xv+284pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1839 edition. Very Good condition. We obtained this book directly from the publisher, it has never been privately owned. Very light wear to the boards. Light dust spotting to page edges. Inside the pages are slightly age toned, but are clean and unmarked. The binding is square and tight. (cfm)
$30.00
New York:George H. Doran Company. 1927. 1st edition.. 199pp. Illustrated with frontispiece. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with sun fading to spine strip and front cover,; labels to front cover and spine strip slightly soiled; and a ripple to the cloth on the rear board, lower outside edge. Internally, a previous owners name is inked to the top of the 1st free end-page and both pages adjacent to the frontispiece are age-toned, but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.
$50.00
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (1998). 243pp. Signed and inscribed on the first free end-page by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket, both in very good clean condition.
$65.00
Boston: Universalist Publishing House. (ca.1870). First Edition. Hardcover, no jacket. 111pp. Good condition. Bevelled edge, brown cloth boards are moderately worn with some sunfadiing and light staining, and fabric wear at extremities. Inside, the hinges are cracked and three pages are just starting to loosen. The contents are clean and unmarked. Some flaws, but overall a good copy. "The volume here presented is made up largely from short-hand reports of the several meetings held at Gloucester during the great Jubilee Convention of Sept. 1870. Pains have been taken to furnish a complete and reliable account of the largest and most important assembly of Universalists ever gathered." (cfm)
$25.00
V Praze:Dr. Frant Backovsky, knihkupec. 1892. 336pp. Hardcover. Previous owners name penned to inside front board and pages slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good clean copy. Externally, gilt still bright on spine but leather worn and rubbed. Leather edge points worn as well. Marbled boards lightly shelf-worn. Overall, in very good condition.
$25.00
New York: Columbia University Press. 1966. (xi)+475pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good clean condition with a slightly shelf-worn dust jacket with wear to all edges.
$15.00
[Puebla]: NP. 1944, 1946, 1948. Three titles in printed wrappers bound together in hardcover. All three are in VG+ condition suffering only from some age toning. Relating to the "mysterious" convent of Santa Monica in Puebla, now a museum in Puebla. (cfm)
$35.00
Boston:American Millenial Association. 1877. 306pp. 1st edition. Green covers lightly rubbed and shelf-worn. Edge points worn to boards. Spine ends lightly worn with a couple very small tears. Gilt on cover and spine still bright. Internally, a previous owners name on the 1st free flyleaf, otherwise the pages are clean and bright. The binding is tight and the hinges intact.
$75.00
No. Providence, RI:Franciscan Missioaries of Mary. 1931. 249pp. Illustrated. Softcover. Brown covers lightly soiled and edgeworn, with corner edges creased and curling and spine ends worn. Internally clean, free of prevous owners marks or signatures but some pages age-toned. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
$25.00
Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery and Co.1883. Brown paper wrappers. iii+98pp. Very Good condition. Paper wrappers have moderate grime and duststaining; also some wear and tear around the edges, and a crease to the back cover. The contents are age toned, and some top edges are roughly cut, but the contents are clean and unmarked. The binding stapled binding remains tight. A very nice copy. (cfm)
$40.00
Louisville, KY:Westminster John Knox Press. (2008), Stated 1st edition. xxix+597pp and xxix+593pp. Hardcovers. Volume 1 has a gift inscription followed by 8 signatures on the 1st free end-page and a small tear to the bottom of the spine end. Both volumes have very light overall shelf-wear, but otherwise, both volumes in very good, clean condition.
$45.00
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co.. 1913. Second Edition. Inscribed by the author (1914) on ffep. ix+320pp. Hardcover, no jacket. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Good+ condition. Maroon cloth boards are well worn and sunfaded. A handful of foxing spots inside, but generally clean and unmarked, square and securely bound. A very nice copy, especially inside. A history of the Church, with biographical sketches of the ministers, and an inscription by the author. (cfm)
$45.00
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