New York: Published for Will Bradley by R. H. Russell, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Massachusetts. 99 pp, 8.25" x 5.75", in original paper-covered boards with mounted spine label. Boards worn at corners, small chips to spine ends, bookplate of..... Item #24033
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1920. Hardcover. Fine. No. 66 of a limited edition of 300 copies issued in December 1920 (Nash printed another, less ornamented edition in 1935). Fine copy in original blue paper-covered boards with mounted spine label; pages unopened. 7.25" x 12.25", 17 pp, with decorative inititals;..... Item #24378
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Hardcover. Very good. Undated; OCLC suggests ca. 1827-1838. 5.75” x 3.75”, 101 pp, with engraved frontispiece, in original cloth-backed marbled boards with paper spine label. Very good. “Designed to show the temptations and sins to which boys are often exposed on such occasions,” according to a...... Item #22778
Poitiers: Imprimerie de Henri Oudin, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 452 pp. 8vo, rebound in modern marbled boards with cloth spine. Light wear to edges, scattered foxing, bookplate and unused library pocket on pastedowns, stamp of a Dominican convent in Paris on title page. French-language text on the symbolism of..... Item #3208
[Waco, TX]: [1920]. Softcover. Very good. 9.5" x 12.25" (oblong), string-tied. [16] pages, illustrated. Light soiling, toning, and moderate general handling wear to covers, some light foxing internally. Provides a history of Assumption Parish (the first Catholic church in Waco was founded in 1870) and details of the work accomplished..... Item #22169
Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1822-1856. Hardcover. Good. A substantial but incomplete 29-volume run, comprised of volumes 18 (1822), 20-21 (1824-25), 23--48 (1827-1852), and 52 (1856). One physical volume containing two years (24 issues), otherwise each ontains a full year (12 issues). Mixed bindings, with some volumes..... Item #23881
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 300 copies laid out by by Victor Hammer and printed by Jacob Hammer from at the Anvil Press. 6.5" x 5", unpaginated, in original tan paper-covered boards with mounted paper label on spine, with double-page woodcut frontispiece made by Victor..... Item #24125
Sidmouth and London: J. Harvey and Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1836. Softcover. Very good. xvi, 25 pp, in original sewn wrappers Minor soiling and wear to front wrapper; near fine. A separately published extract, with added 16-page preface and 7-page appendix, from A Narrative of the Visit to the American..... Item #20694
Very good. Three 8" x 10" photographs, one credited on the verso to Orby G. Kelley Jr., a photographer who worked for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper (Norfolk, VA) in the 1950s, the other two unmarked. The credited photo is an informal portrait of Charles Manuel Grace (1881-1960) -- born Marcelino Manuel..... Item #23066
Philadelphia: Representative Committee or Meeting for Sufferings, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 136 pp, in original brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Small stain to front board, spine ends chipped, corners rubbed, light foxing to endpapers; text clean, binding sound. The text outlines standards of conduct and behavior..... Item #2603
Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 86 pp, with frontis portrait of the author. Original green cloth boards. Titles rubbed, some wear to extremities, mild spine slant. Binding sound, text clean. Baldwin was a member of the East Ohio Conference and was an itinerant..... Item #14541
London: Published by David Nutt at the Sign of the Phoenix, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8.75" x 7", 158 pp, bound in original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Discoloration from old insect predation on front board, internals fine other than some roughly trimmed..... Item #24071
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 193. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First printing, 326 pp, indexed in original red cloth. Some toning to spine, edges of boards, and endpapers, else fine. Dust jacket has some chipping and one closed tear, but remains well-preserved and..... Item #24289
Paris: Georges Josse, 1669. Hardcover. Very good. Septiéme Edition. Reveuë, Corrigée & Aumentée d’une Table des Matieres.Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, 6 x 3.5 inches, full contemporary mottled calf, backstrip with five raised bands, gilt lettering and flourishes in each panel, edges speckled, numerous headpieces and floriated initials. Text..... Item #19824
Glasgow: Robert and Thomas Duncan, 1770. Hardcover. Very good. 6" x 4", 407 pp, in original calf binding. Leather over joints partially cracked, but hinges and binding sound. Ownership signatures (one from 1777, one from 1972) on front endpapers, otherwise unmarked. Thomas Boston (1676-1732) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and..... Item #24240
Sag-Harbor: Alden Spooner, 1808. Hardcover. Good. 2mo, 144 pp, with engraved frontis portrait of the author. A good copy in original paper-covered wooden boards (with much of the paper worn away) with leather spine. Front joint cracked and board loosened but still secured by stitching. Child's doodles on front free..... Item #23583
Athol Springs, NY: Carter-Heath, [1930]. Softcover. Very good-. 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Light handling wear, one gathering detached from staples, which are rusted; about very good. Carter was a self-described "reformed “drunkard, dope fiend, criminal, leader and character in the underworld” who found religion in 1922 while incarcerated..... Item #22910
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third thousand. vi, 272 pp, with color frontis, b/w plates, in original blind-stamped cloth. Corners bumped, chipping to head of spine, bits of old paper stuck to front board. Occasional foxing, otherwise clean and sound..... Item #13245
New Carlisle, OH: 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled binding. Very slight cover wear, else a fine copy, signed on the first page by the compiler. A compilation of "historical facts and anecdotes [that] have been brought together to give the reader a picture of the..... Item #13226
New York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1833. Hardcover. Good. Later printing. 5.25 inches, 240 pp, quarter leather and marbled boards. Spine lettering designates this as Volume 8 in the "S.S. & Y. Library" (Sunday School and Youth's Library, Published for the Methodist..... Item #22132
[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], [1891]. Softcover. Near fine. Second edition. 18 pp + donation form, in original stapled wrappers. Minor handling wear, else fine. Collection of letters to Rev. Cozad from missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions relating to the organization's work in..... Item #24314
Nashville, TN: General Commission on Benevolences Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1930. Softcover. Near fine. 155 pp, in original illustrated wrappers. Minimal handling wear to wrappers, light spotting to bottom edge; text clean. Text on evangelism in the Methodist church, comprised of six sections: Evangelizing the Masses, Christianizing American, Extension and..... Item #2331
New York: George H. Doran. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Undated [1923]. 373 pp, with 33 illustrations from photographs and 3 maps. Front hinge repaired, else a fine copy in the original dust jacket, which has one internal tape repair. Dan Crawford (1870-1926) was a Scottish..... Item #13111
London: Church Missionary Society, 1913. Hardcover. Good. 176 pp, with color frontispiece, map of east Africa, many black and white photographs. Original green cloth boards with mounted illustration of a native warrior. Spine faded, moderate edgewear, corners bumped. Binding sound, text unmarked. The author was a British poet and composer..... Item #13321
