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New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1970. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1966 1st Printing Hardcover, 238 pp. Yale Publications in Religion, 12. Sections include : Religion and the Arts; The Nature and Function of Literature; The Christian Life; and, Literature and the Christian Life. Topics include : Christian Aesthetics, Discipleship, Christian Discrimination, and more. Book Condition : Fair; underlining/margin notes throughout; stains at top left rear free end paper & bottom front end paper; spotting to text block; light bumping to spine ends. No Dust Jacket..

Boston MA: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; The Riverside Press, 1897. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of essays represents Clarke's thinking on a variety of subjects - Literary Studies, Religious and Philosophical, and Historical and Biographical. Essays include : Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dualism in National Life, The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, and more.Book Condition : Good-; Ex-Seminary Library; separation beginning inside front and rear covers, all pages intact; bookplate inside front cover, slip and pocket removed inside rear cover; light age discoloration at outside page edges, no markings to text; catalog labels at bottom spine and right top rear cover..

Camden NJ: The Haddon Craftsmen, 1939. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Limited Edition of 1100 copies, unnumbered. WWII dedication page in this specific copy. Essays on Self-Reliance, Courage, and Experience, plus An Appreciation by Van Wyck Brooks - Emerson in Concord. Book Condition : Good+; no text marks; sunlight fading to spine and around cover edges; small water stain to rear free end paper. No Dust Jacket as issued..