Jesus Then and Now: Thoughts on the Continuity and Survival of the Christian Religion
by SPERRY, Willard L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. The one-time Dean of the Harvard Divinity School's four lectures on early Chrisianity as inspired by Jesus, its growth, and its state in the modern world. The four lectures, delivered at Northwestern University, are supplemented by two additional chapters. --- In navy cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. In unclipped dust jacket. --- With prior owners' signatures to front free endpaper & a little edgewear; else a clean, firm, bright copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, but mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 224 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81129
- Title
- Jesus Then and Now: Thoughts on the Continuity and Survival of the Christian Religion
- Author
- SPERRY, Willard L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Religion and Spirituality;
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