Recollections of a Missionary in The Great West by Cyrus Townsend Brady - 2009-06-04

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1900. Hardcover. Used - Good. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Copyright, 1900. 200 pages. Frontispiece portrait. 7.5 x 5.5", gold stamped black cloth. Adams, Six-Guns, 256; Kaplan, American Autobiographies, 625: Episcopal priest, Missouri, Colorado, Kansas, 1890-5. Rambling anecdotes dedicated to Elisha Smith Thomas, Bishop of Kansas & Charles Henry Gardner, Dean of Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska. Library spine number, pocket & slip removed from lower pastedown, text clean, tight, G.

MP3 Audio CD. Recollections of a missionary in the great west Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a missionary. “…the experiences are personal and actually occurred as they are set down, to the best of my recollection…. Only one story was ‘made up’ for the occasion, and that combines several actual incidents. I hope that this book may serve to interest those who read it in the life of the average missionary on the Western frontier – a life of mingled work and pleasure, joy and pathos, hardship and fun.” The book revels in the joys of everyday life, an example of the Episcopal spirituality of seeing the world as a gift from God, to be encountered and gloried in with excitement and appreciation. One recent reader was so enthralled with the book that she read it all in one sitting, not particularly for the religion but for the picture of the people and life of the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Recollections of a missionary in the great west Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a missionary. “…the experiences are personal and actually occurred as they are set down, to the best of my recollection…. Only one story was ‘made up’ for the occasion, and that combines several actual incidents. I hope that this book may serve to interest those who read it in the life of the average missionary on the Western frontier – a life of mingled work and pleasure, joy and pathos, hardship and fun.” The book revels in the joys of everyday life, an example of the Episcopal spirituality of seeing the world as a gift from God, to be encountered and gloried in with excitement and appreciation. One recent reader was so enthralled with the book that she read it all in one sitting, not particularly for the religion but for the picture of the people and life of the… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900 2021-01-18. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1st Ed., 1900, 8vo., 200pp., frontispiece with guard, untrimmed, top edge gilt, gilt lettering. Bright unmarked copy with firm binding, sharp and square. Well packaged, ships with tracking.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Small octavo, pp. 200. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontis of Brady. A nicely kept copy with only light rubs to board tips and spine ends, and mild rounding to bottom board tips. Small spots of foxing now and then, minor at best. Easily very good in publisher's black cloth with title gilt inside single ruled gilt border. Adams, Six Guns, 256.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.. 1st edition. Cloth lettered in gilt on the cover and spine, t.e.g., 200 pp., frontispiece portrait. Light damp-staining to the top fore-corners at the back, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardback. New.