Los Angeles: Book Shop, 1982. Hardcover. Near fine. Baja California Travels Series #45. 236 pp, illustrated. Touch of rubbing to extremities, else fine. Item #22986
Honpa Hongwanji Press, 1957. Softcover. Very good. 57 pp, in flexible thin leather or leatherette covers. Light rubbing to edges, internals clean and tight. As described in the Preface, "this pamphlet is a collection of some sermons delivered by Kosho Ohtani (Patriarch of the Honpa HOngwan ji Denomination of Shin..... Item #22344
San Antonio, TX: St. Mary's Church, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 227 pp + v (index), 6 (advertisements), with frontispiece. Black fabricoid over boards with black cloth spine. No lettering on cover or spine. Light fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine, very mild spine slant, chippingto..... Item #2976
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, with frontis portrait, 19 illustrations and 2 maps (1 folding). Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked, brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa..... Item #13079
Softcover. Very Good. No publication information provided. v, 160 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Sunned spine, light handling wear; text clean. Signed with short inscription by author on title page. "My goal in this book is to take a look, sometimes admittedly an extremely sentimental one..... Item #2471
![Item #2471 Covered Foundations, a History of Mississippi Woman's Missionary Union [SIGNED]....](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2471.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1528419662)
Manchester: Printed by Harrison and Crosfield, Sold by Harvey & Darton, 1834. Hardcover. Good. Twelfth Edition. Title continunes: In which their fundamental principle, doctrine, worship, ministry, and discipline are plainly declared. With a summary relation of the former dispensations of God in the world; by way of introduction. 82 pp..... Item #21385
Philadelphia: Lilienfeld Bros. Steam Power Printers, [1902]. Softcover. Good. 36 pp, with 3 illustrations from photographs, many ads. Original stapled wrappers have chipping and internal tape repairs and are detached from text block; internals very good. Not found in OCLC. The Pannonia Beneficial Organization was founded in 1896 through the..... Item #19917
Philadelphia: John Gillespie, 1819. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition overall (per title page), "revised and greatly enlarged." pp. xviii, 312, in contemporary full leather binding. Lacking rear free endpaper, some pencil scribblings on pastedowns, light foxing; all else very good. Purves was a Scottish Universalist minister. Here..... Item #18951
New York: Academy Photo Offset, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 160 pp, illustrated with many drawings by Raskin, some in two colors and several full-page. Text in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, with the Yiddish by Israel Levine. Boards have some scuffing. Gift inscription in Yiddish on the title page, else..... Item #12476
New York: Academy Photo Offset, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good- dust jacket. 172 pages, bound in red cloth. Very near fine, with just a touch of wear to the corners and a synagogue bookplate on front pastedown. In the original illustrative dust jacket which has..... Item #12319
New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1828. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, 10 pp, disbound. Light foxing, all else very good. Foundational document of the General Union, which according to one modern scholar "marked a new departure in the annals of American reform. Like the American Temperance Society, upon which it..... Item #16639
London: William Pickering, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in contemporary full leather, with matching gift inscriptions dated 1836 on the front free endpaper of each volume. A very good, clean set with some scuffing and bumping to the boards. " Roget (of thesaurus fame), describes "in a...... Item #23028
Colorado Springs: 1993. Softcover. Very good. 78 pp. Signed by author on front blank. Light handling wear; very good. Account of life as a missionary in Kodiak, Alaska in 1968. The author and her husband were associated with the Kodiak Baptist Mission, which celebrated its centennial in 1993. Item #22942
Chicago, New York, and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition. 218 pp, with bibliography, publisher's catalogue. Original brown cloth boards lightly worn; old store stamp on front pastedown. Front hinge a bit wobbly, binding otherwise sound, contents clean. "A sardonic survey of atheism." Item #114
Softcover. Near fine. 8vo, 23 pp, in stapled self-wrappers. No publication information given, c. 1890. Abrasion to one spot on front wrapper, with loss of a few letters, else fine. An original Oneida Community member offers (for posterity) an explanation and defense of Perfectionism and the community's other doctrines and..... Item #19057
Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 165 pp, bound in blind-stamped red cloth. Slight wear to spine, else fine. No dust jacket. Covers St. Augustine, St. Francis, Thomas A. Kempis, the Theologia Germanica, Brother Lawrence, John Woolman. Item #13353
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 92 pp + 24 b/w plates, color frontispiece, and folding map. Fine copy in original green cloth. As described in the foreword: "Of the oriental religions that swept across the Roman empire as forerunners of Christianity, the cult of Iuppiter Dolichenus was..... Item #21265
Springfield, Mass. Star Publishing Co., [1883]. Softcover. Near fine. 4.5 x 7.5 inches, sewn wrappers. pp. 65-91, [7] (publisher's ads). Slight foxing to front wrapper, else fine. Papers Sixteen to Twenty-Two of a series purportedly delivered by deceased newspaper editor Samuel Bowles through the mediumship of Carrie Twing. Among the..... Item #19056
New York: Katanga Press, 1916. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. 311 pp, illustrated with b/w plates. Ex-library, with stamps and bookplates on the endpapers, stamps on top and bottom edge. Old tape repair to title page, otherwise sound, with no markings in the text and minimal wear to boards. Introduction by..... Item #13338
Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1898. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6.25" x 8", 96 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. Some staining to front cover, pages tanned, but still very good overall. First edition of this requently republished book, later re-named "My Dream of Heaven." Springer (1832-1904), the daughter..... Item #22227
![Item #22227 Intra Muros or Within the Walls. A Dream of Heaven [cover title]. Mrs. Rebecca R....](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22227_0001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648791307)
Independence, MO: Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Press of Zion's Printing and Publishing Company. Softcover. Very good. Presumed first edition (the printing history of this booklet is not entirely clear), matching the description of Flake-Draper 8672 (the first listed of many editions of this title)..... Item #21757
Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1921. Soft cover. Very Good. 201 pp, with illustrations and map, in original printed wrappers. Spine is sunned and has one chip in the paper at the head of the spine. Binding solid, text unmarked. McCutchan was sent as a missionary to the Congo..... Item #13243
El Camino Real Press, 2018. Hardcover. Fine. Mintaure book, 5 x 7 cm, 12 pp, bound in red cloth, with red and white patterned endpapers. One of 200 copies bound by Mariana Blau and printed by Patrick Reagh. Postage stamp featuring Hesburgh tipped in as frontispiece. As new. Hesburgh was..... Item #22055
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. First America n edition. pp. xi, 308, with index and glossary. Blue cloth covers, sunned at the spine, tiny bit of rubbing to extremities, previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Classic text describing Confucianism and Taoism in China and how..... Item #21152
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1882. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. xvi, 255 pp, with frontis portrait of the author, in original red cloth boards. Spine sunned, boards edgeworn, foxing to frontispiece, owner's signature on front flyleaf. Binding sound, text clean. Narrative of missionary work in early San Francisco. The author..... Item #13879
