religion and theology
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: A History of the Shiloh Baptist Church 1863-1988
Washington DC: n.p., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's boards with gilt and blind titles. Gift inscription at ffep. Minor toning to edges of text block, else clean and bright. Near fine. An illustrated history of the historically black church, including many photographs, historical documents and drawings.
VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY: DIVINE HERITAGE OF MAN
New York: Vedanta Society, (1903). Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good. Minor shelf wear/soil. Name and date to front pastedown. Else clean and sound throughout. Scarce second edition. 215pp. plus ads.
THE ARMS RACE AND US: The Riverside Church Disarmament Program Fourth Annual Conference November 15-16, 1981
New York: The Riverside Church, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound wraps. About very good. Light curling, creasing to wraps; trace soil. Pages heavily toned throughout, with mild dampstaining to bottom, but clean overall. 144pp. Prints talks given at this anti-nuclear event at New York's Riverside Church. Speakers included Cora.....
LIFE OF MRS. SARAH NORTON: An Illustration of Practical Piety
Nashville, TN: J.B. M'Ferrin, Agen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Decorated cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Cloth moderately worn. Gift inscription to first endpaper. Endpapers foxed. Overall sound, clean. Biography on an early female missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church. With.....
FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHY - Volume II
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Textured brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Spine cloth faded. Mild handling wear. Overall sound, clean. Volume II only, of a two-volume set or works by the influential 19th Century Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian.....
NILE MOTHER: The Story of Lillian Trasher
Springfield, MO: The General Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc., nd [ca. 1939]. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Stapled wraps. Some toning, edge-wear. Else clean and sound throughout. Very good. 23pp. Brief profile of Trasher that originally appeared in a 1939 issue of The American Magazine. Lillian Trasher (1887-1961).....
LONG PILGRIMAGE: The Life and Teaching of Sri Govindananda Bharati, known as Shivapuri Baba
San Francisco: The Rainbow Bridge, (1975). Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Light edge-wear and a touch or rubbing to wraps. Some instances of neat underlining. Interior bright. Very good. 191 pp. A biography of the Hindu mystic who reportedly lived to age 137.
THE HERETICAL IMPERATIVE: Contemporary Possibilities if Religious Affirmation
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good or better in like jacket. Tiny chip to jacket at head of spine. Mild toning overall. Unclipped. Book has slight lean. Else clean, tight, and sound throughout. 220pp. with notes and index.
THE FALL OF IDEALS [Adyar Pamphlets No. 68]
Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1916. First edition thus. Wraps. 12mo. Printed wraps. Previous owner's signature to front cover. Heavy toning, with moderate edgewear, corner scuffing, and substantial tears along both spine ends. 11pp. Very good minus. Article by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, reprinted from "Lucifer" Vol. V, December.....
SPIRITUAL PROGRESS [Adyar Pamphlets No. 71]
Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1916. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Printed wraps. Previous owner's signature to front cover. Heavy toning, with moderate edgewear, corner creasing, and small tears to both spine ends. 11pp. Very good minus. Article by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, reprinted from The Theosophist, Vol. VI. Pamplet.....
MADONNA RED
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in black dust jacket. Jacket rubbed with light wear at edges. Interior clean and bright. Very good. 313pp. First edition of Carroll's novel about an IRA assassin in the United States, influenced by Carroll's experience as a......
[Salesman's Sample Book of Sacramental Vestment Textiles]
[Saint Etienne]: [Les Succrs de G. Bochard], [ca. 1935]. 4to. Commercial burgundy board scrapbook. String-tied with matching silk braid. 10.5” x 8” approx. containing sixteen card-stock leaves mounted recto and verso with 92 original silk sample swatches. Three black-and-white photo illustrations of finished patterns also mounted within. Mild wear and.....
MADONNA ALBUM [Cover Title]. [Original Scrapbook Album]
[Massachusetts]: [ca. 1914]. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong folio. Commercial string-tied album. Cloth covered, limp card boards. Gilt lettering to front. 50 leaves holding a single portrait photograph and 194 clipped artwork reproductions within hand-cut corner mounts at rectos and versos. Each page with ornate outlining and calligraphic titling in white.....
CEREMONIES DES DOUZE MOIS: Fetes Annuelles Cambodgiennes
[Phnom-Penh]: Commission des Moeurs et Coutumes du Cambodge, [circa 1951]. Wraps. 4to. Perfect-bound tan wraps, brown cloth tape to spine. Light shelfwear and scuffing; mild toning and foxing. Creasing to back cover. Pages toned. Very good. Leaflet laid in. In French. By Commission members Eveline Poree-Maspero, L'Achar Chap-Pin, Mmes. Pich-Sal.....
THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION OR SANATANA VAIDIKA DHARMA: An Attempt at an Exposition of Principles
Kamachha, Benares: Babu Ambika Kanta Chakravarti, 1917. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Grey-green printed wraps, heavily chipped and torn at edges and spine. Edges sunned. Moderate foxing throughout. Some corner creasing. Good plus. Theosophist text. In English, with several passages in Sanskrit.
COMING TO: A Theology of Beauty
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Near fine in a very good DJ. INSCRIBED by Dean to half title. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Binding a touch loose at two points but overall quite sound. Clean throughout. 207pp. Theological text.....
LOVE BEFORE THE FALL
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good. INSCRIBED by Dean to FFEP. Light soiling to wraps. Interior clean, tight, and unmarred. 142pp. Series of "lecture-dialogues" on love by Dean, who was Associate Professor of Religion at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Forty Stories for the Church, School and Home
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Cloth. 12mo. Jacket is edgeworn with a few small chipped. Toned, unclipped. Book has external soil, toning. Offsetting to endpapers. Binding sound, text unmarked throughout. Uncommon with jacket, and overall handsome. A collection of stories with a Christian moral. A vintage religious.....
APOCALIPSIS DE CUBA
Alajuela, Costa Rica: Apartado 199, (1963). First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. Wraps, endpapers foxed. Vertical crease to front wrap, spine lightly worn. Previous ownership name to title page. Sound, text clean, unmarked. First printing of this revision on the author's 1959 work, "El Apocalipsis o Revelacion del.....
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's marbled boards backed in black leather. In original slipcase and glassine. Newsleter laid in. Very mild edgewear to glassine with toning and splitting at spine. Mild toning to slipcase. Boards clean, interior bright and fresh. Tight. Near fine. 87pp. Number.....
THE BOOK OF BEING BORN AGAIN INTO THE WORLD
Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1974. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good. Some rubbing, edgewear. Bump to one corner. Else clean and sound. INSCRIBED, DATED, and SIGNED by author Grossinger to title page. Early book from this press, from the founder. 246pp.
UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: In Search of Gurdjieff
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press with Little Brown, 1966. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Minor edgewear. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. An account of the writers time studying with the mystic Gurdjieff.
CHAPLAIN OF THE HOUSE: A History of Prayer and Presence in the Minnesota House of Representatives
Minneapolis: Hennepin House, (2011). First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Perfect-bound glossy photographic wraps. Fine condition. INSCRIBED by Johnson to front free endpaper. Crisp, clean throughout. 121pp. History of the chaplaincy at the Minnesota House.
C.S. LEWIS: Letters to An American Lady
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red cloth, black lettering to spine. Unclipped jacket with two, small, open tears to upper, rear. Cloth slightly worn at spine extremities, previous ownership markings to first endpaper covered with two, white stickers. Otherwise clean, sound.....
PANIS ANGELICUS: The Very Angels' Bread [:] Sacramental Art by Thomas Lanigan Schmidt [Exhibition Promo Poster for Show at 98 Greene Street Loft]
(New York): (98 Greene Street Loft), 1973. First Edition. Poster, 15" by 10" approx. Folded in quarters for mailing. Very good. Aside from folds, shows a bit of handling wear; and one corner folded. Else clean and presentable. Poster promoting an exhibition of religious-themed works by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, a prominent.....