Religion
[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
London: The Prayer-book and Homily Society. ca. 1840. Hardcover. Approx 220pp. Bound with "Articles Agreed Upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of Both Provinces, and the Whole Clergy in the Convocation Holden(sic) at London in the Year 1562, for Avoiding of Diversities of Opinions, and for the Establishing of Consent Touching True Religion". Fair condition. Spine fabric missing, String binding held weakly by two strings. Brown cloth boards stained. Owner name penned to ffep and moderate foxing throughout. Originaly published in 1562. (cfm)
$60.00
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
Shakers, New York:The Shaker Manifesto. 1879. 1st edition. 222pp. With frontispiece. Hardcover. Boards soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with gilt on front cover still bright, but wear along edges, spine ends chipped/frayed and edge points bumped and worn to boards. Internally, end-pages age-toned and lighlty foxed on first and last free end-pages, but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A good solid copy.
$95.00
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
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
Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. (1992). 186pp. 1st edition. Hardcover. In very good condition. The covers are clean and bright. Internally, aside from a small spot on the ffep where someone tried to remove a prior name, a very good, clean copy. *Part of the South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism.
$25.00
New York:New York University Press. 1966. 429pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellow boards lightly soiled. No previous owners signatures but there are a few neatly inked notes to margins. The dust jacket is in fair condition with much shelf-wear and small chips and tears to edges, with a larger tear across the front board, now repaired with tape.
$25.00
Philadelphia:Fortress Press. (1978. 2nd edition. xiv+143pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition, with light soiling of page edges but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and sun-faded, but still in very good condition.
$25.00
Berkeley:University of California Press. (1980). 1st edition. xii+146pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A near fine, clean, bright copy inside and out, with a very good, lightly shelfworn dust jacket. * "In this study Walther Heissig focuses on the existence in Mongolia of religious forms which have more ancient roots enen than Buddhism. The forms of Northern Buddhism in Mongolia correspond in the main to those Tibetan forms from which they originated, and which Professor Guiseppe Tuci describes and explains in The Religions of Tibet, a companion volume to this work."...dj
$35.00
Philadelphia:The Commercial Museum. 1924. 120pp. With essays by Max L. Margolis, James A. Montgomery, Walter Woodburn Hyde, Franklin Edgeton, Theophile J. Meek and Wilfred H. Schoff. Rebound in buckram. Gray boards slightly soiled and shelfworn, with gilt on spine still bright. Internally, endpages age toned with some margin notes to lists of authors, but otherwise in very good, clean condition.
$75.00
Onset, MA: Self Published. 1904. 1st edition. 165pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Red boards soiled and shelfworn with rubbing along spine edges and wear with fraying to spine ends. Edge points bumped with bottom edge points worn to boards. Internally clean with no previous owners marks or signatures. Just a couple stray marks/smudges scattered throughout. The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Part 1 -"In which are Related the Early Struggles, the Organization of and the Erection of a Place of Worship by the On-I-Set Wigwam Co-Workers, with Half-Tone Cuts of the Wigwam and Vicinity, many Charter Members: and an account of its Labors." Part 2 - "A Collection of Poems Dedicated by Their Writers, to the On-I-Set Wigwam Co-Workers."
$50.00
Farnborough Hants., England: Gregg Press Limited. 1966. Hardcover, no jacket as issued. 508pp. Gregg Press facsimile reprint of the Cologne 1538 edition. Near Fine condition. Gilt titling to spine is fully faded. Very light grime to page edges. Otherwise as new. We obtained this book directly from the publisher over fifty years ago, it has never been privately owned. (cfm)
$125.00
Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society. 1893. First Edition. vii+159pp. Hardover, no jacket. Top edge brown. Very Good- condition. Brown boards moderately rubbed with some grime darkening. Gilt titling on spine still bright. Some fabric tear at top of spine with small loss. Hinges cracking, and ffep present but loose. Interior is clean and unfoxed. Pages are securely bound. This is Gotwald's side of the story, defending his character as "an honorable and honest Christian man. (cfm)
$60.00
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