The Orthodox Catholic Faith
Elmira, NY: [Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church], 1953. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's blue and white staplebound card wrappers; 44pp. Light dustiness, else Fine. More
Elmira, NY: [Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church], 1953. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's blue and white staplebound card wrappers; 44pp. Light dustiness, else Fine. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Grey paper backed in black cloth, in black dust jacket; [vi],236,[2]pp; black and white photos throughout. One or two bumps to corners and edges, light dustiness at base of spine, internally clean: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed..... More
Richmond: Christian Advocate Office, 1890. New Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original black decorative cloth embossed in gilt, unadorned spine, all edges stained red, green floral endpapers; [12],242pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 22 plates. Boards rather rubbed with some shallow loss of cloth to spine ends and corners, spine a bit toned, old..... More
Moskvo: "Iskusstvo" 1994. Second Edition. Folio (34cm.); publisher's brown cloth embossed in brown and gilt, matching cloth slipcase, two large color plates mounted to both sides of slipcase; 536pp.; illus. throughout, including many in color and full-paged. Fine. Massive reference on 16th century Russian icon painting. OCLC locates three copies..... More
[Seoul]: International Buddhist Forum, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's yellow photo-illustrated wrappers; 102pp.; illus. throughout including color photographs. Light shelf wear, small loss at spine foot, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good. Articles include "Buddhism in North America up to 1893" by Rick Fields; "Buddhism in Modern Life"..... More
Baltimore: Published for the Benefit of Sugar Loaf Mountain M. E. Church, 1862. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gilt; 54pp. Edges rubbed, spine perished, occasional foxing: Good. Temperance narrative published to raise funds for the construction of a new Methodist Episcopal Church near Sugar Loaf..... More
St. Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1854. First Edition. Address delivered before the Presbyterian Missouri Synod regarding the neglect in conduct of the ruling elders. Possibly unrecorded, we find no copies in the trade or auction records, nor in NUC, OCLC, COPAC, or KVK as of June, 2020. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's..... More
Philadelphia: Reformed Church Messenger, 1923. First Edition. Fifty-two volumes bound in one; large quarto (32cm.); contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, floral endpapers, all original wrappers bound in; illus. throughout. Ex-Library of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the U.S. with their usual internal rubberstamps, boards rather..... More
Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); removed; 48pp. Some general foxing and light soil, else Very Good and sound. Collection of articles chiefly signed "Leland," first published in the "Democratic Press" in response to the article (reprinted here) "Sunday Police." From the advertisement on p. [2]: "...we may..... More
Philadelphia: Judson Press, [1931]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [12],153pp.; photographic frontispiece, 17 plates, including poster reproductions and photographs. Jacket quite worn with ragged splitting along folds, rear panel dusty and rather dampstained. Near Fine in a Good only copy of the..... More
Neo-Eboraci [New York]: Samuel et Johannes Loudon, 1785. First Edition. Substantial philosophical defence of Christianity by the Dutch Reformed pastor with references to classical Greek and modern British philosophers, including Ralph Cudworth. Special emphasis on the Deists Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, and Thomas Woolston. ESTC W21426; EVANS 19061. Small quarto..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. Octavo (20.5cm). Blue paper over boards, in white dj; x,451pp. Pushed at head, Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, creased at head, Near Fine. Translation from German. More
Philadelphia: Rolley & Reynolds, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Robert Malmstrom; [14],249pp. Shallow chip at jacket spine crown, a few tiny tears and some shelf wear, else Very Good, internally fine. Businessman Mangel's proposal for a Declaration of Independence based on a Christian..... More
[Boston?]: Earl Bowman Marlatt, [1924]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's brown string-bound card wrappers, color plate mounted to upper cover; [22]pp.; photographic illus. throughout, text printed in red and black. A hint of wear to wrapper extremities and cover plate, else Fine. More
La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1988. Reprint. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 130,[40]pp.; photographic illus. Some general wear and a few shallow creases, else Very Good or better. History of the Cuban Christmas festival. More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company / T.R. Marvin, printer, 1826. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); disbound but retaining original endpapers; 42pp. Textblock rather foxed, faint dampstaining to upper margin; overall Very Good. Early address by the influential American music educator who later founded the Boston Academy of Music, in 1833..... More
Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1929. Offprint. Reprinted by permission from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Staple-bound pamphlet; 23pp. Clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Mather a long-time professor of geology at Harvard and proponent of academic freedom. More
New York: Vendome Press, [1982]. First Edition. Folio (34.5cm.); publisher's leatherette in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 203pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket extremities a bit shelf-worn with tiny chip at bottom edge of upper panel, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
[Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies]: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, n.d., ca. 1971. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in black and green; 24pp. Near Fine condition. CADEC Study Paper no. 5. More
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1998. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 643pp. Tight, Near Fine and unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper, Near Fine. More
Coaldale, Alberta: 1951. First Edition. Quato. Staple-bound wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild external wear; ownership stamp to front wrapper; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Memorial album celebrating the first 25 years of this Mennonite community. PEEL, Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953, 7242. OCLC locates only 5 copies (only one..... More
Zürich: Grethlein & Co., [1932]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's black cloth embossed in red and gilt, red topstain; 431pp. Boards a bit worn and corners bumped, spine a shade faded, topstain significantly more so, front hinge cracked but holding, remnants of previously removed bookplate to title page. About Very..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); white cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; xiv,162pp. Gentle sunning and a touch of dustiness to upper and lower board edges, contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced..... More
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Posthumous collection of Merton's writings on the monastic journey, gathered together and edited by his secretary. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,185,[3]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with some..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. "The central theme of Seasons of Celebration is the liturgical renewal that the clergy and laity are now experiencing, some enthusiastically and some reluctantly, as a result of the constitution on the liturgy promulgated by Vatican Council II" (from front flap)..... More