Search Results: Catalog 70 - Christianity & Religion from Joseph Valles - Books

Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1998, 1998. Fine. 388 pp., 22 cm. ; stiff pictorial wrappers ; reprint of edition originally published: Nashville : Abingdon Press, [1971] ; ISBN: 157910150X (pbk.) ; OCLC: 43399532 ; "A definitive biography of the intriguing and controversial Dutch thinker of the late sixteenth - early seventeenth centuries. Not merely a biography in the traditional sense, the book involves much intellectual history as well as a short history of Amsterdam." ; back ep folded, else FINE

Rockford, Illinois : Tan Books and Publishers, 1991, ©1945., 1991. Very Good. 161 pp. ; illustrations ; 22 cm. ; LC: BT660.F3; Dewey: 220 ; ISBN: 0895554194; 9780895554192 ; OCLC: 31484389 ; illustrated by Gedge Harmon ; pictorial paper wrappers ; VG

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949., 1949. Fair. 124 pp. ; 20 cm. ; [probable 1st edition] ; LCCN: 49-7238 ; OCLC: 952394 ; blue cloth with light blue lettering ; inscribed and SIGNED by Trueblood on the front ep ; previous owner's name on front ep ; spotting and wear on covers ; foxed ; Elton Trueblood was a Quaker who was an often-read essayist in mid-twentieth century America ; he was an associate of Herbert Hoover, and a friend and supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., often encouraging Eisenhower and Nixon to consider issues of racial discrimination ; he attended William Penn College, Brown University, Hartford Theological and ultimately earned a theology degree at Harvard and a PHD at Johns Hopkins ; an academic teacher, he taught at Guilford College, Haverford and Stanford where he later became Chaplain ; FAIR

Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books, 1989, 1968, ©1966., 1989. Very Good. 360 pp. ; 18 cm. ; ISBN: 0385010184 ; OCLC: 13955663 ; LC: BX4705.M542; Dewey: 248.4 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; 17th printing ; very slight wear ; VG

Rockford, Illinois : Tan Books and Publishers, 1991, ©1947., 1991. Very Good. viii, 211 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0895554186 (pbk.); 9780895554185 (pbk.) LCCN: 90-71827 ; OCLC: 28283628 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "This book first appeared in serial form in the pages of The Catholic Home Messenger. As a book, it was o riginally published under the title The Parish Priest of Ars : The Story of Saint John Marie Vianney ; VG

Los Angeles, New Age Press, 1972., 1972. Good. 6th edition ; 79 pp. ; 23 cm. ; similar to OCLC: 5049781 ; LCCN: 57-34938 ; LC: BM487; Dewey: 221.44 ; textured yellow stiff paper wrappers with black lettering and design ; foxed ; originally published in 1957 ; G

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1992., 1992. Fine. 180 pp. ; illustrations ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0898703875; 9780898703870 LCCN: 91-76073 ; OCLC: 28628979 ; LC: BX4700.C19; Dewey: 272.2092 ; illustrated by Rose Goudket. ; Originally published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc., 1957. ; color pictorial paper wrappers ; "life and death of the martyr, St. Edmund Campion, hero of God's underground during the persecutions of the Catholics in England in the 1500s. Campion, the most celebrated young scholar of his day, was on his way to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury until a crisis of conscience turned him back to his Catholic faith. He fled England, became a Jesuit priest, and was sent back to be the leader of the underground ministry to the persecuted Catholics until, after a long and frustrated search, the government finally captured him and brutally executed him." ; FINE

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1991., 1991. Very Good. 199 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0898702755; 9780898702750 LCCN: 89-81431 ; OCLC: 24662599 ; Originally published in French as "N'oubliez pas l'amour" la passion de Maximilien Kolbe. ; text in English ; LC: BX4705.K625; Dewey: B ; translated by Cendrine Fon tan. ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "..story of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirituality, and a martyr of charity. With the encouragement of Pope John Paul II, Frossard chronicles the dramatic life of this Polish Franciscan who volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz." ; VG

San Francisco, CA : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985., 1985. Good. 4th printing ; ex-lib ; ISBN: 0060634642, 9780060634643 ; green and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket ; penciled underlinings in spots ; typical labels, pockets, and stamps ; tears to front and back eps from dustjacket mylar cover ; "Julien Green, who writes in French, was born in Paris of American parents. He spent his childhood in France, returning to the United States only to study at the University of Virginia and to serve in both world wars. American life is the background for his two novels, Mont-Cinere (1926) and Mo'ra (1950). French provincial life is the setting for Adrienne Mesurat (The Closed Garden) (1927), and also for Leviathan (The Dark Journey) (1929). Each in His Darkness (1961) is a novel about a Frenchman and his dying uncle in America. In his diary, Julien Green reveals his "sensitive, poetic nature" and provides insights into the obsessive, nightmarish atmosphere of his works, as well as into the major… Read More

Grand Rapids : Baker Book House, 1960., 1960. Very Good. 188 pp. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN: 60-15711 ; OCLC: 4172282 ; LC: BS2387; Dewey: 225.6 ; salmon-colored cloth with dark brown lettering, in black, yellow and green dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the front ep ; a slight mark on front of dustjacket ; foxing in ep gutters ; else VG/VG

[New York] : University Books, c1966., 1966. Very Good. 1st printing of University Books edition ; xvii, 611 pp. ; blue and tan cloth ; decorative dust jacket ; a few tiny tears and a ding on dustjacket ; name on ep ; VG/VG

[Westwood, N.J.] : Fleming H. Revell Company, 1961., 1961. Very Good. 190 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 61-17106 ; LC: BV4501.2; Dewey: 248.42 ; OCLC: 2222636 ; red cloth with black lettering, in red dustajcket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on front ep ; An extended sermon from the pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, then the largest Protestant congregation in the Southeast. Roy McClain was a military chaplain in the Pacific during World War II, and was the broadcast narrator for the syndicated radio program, The Baptist Hour. ; "The purpose of this book is to attempt the completion of the above 'if' clause [: 'If with all your heart']. What happens in life if one's whole heart is invested? If with all your heart you work, live, pray, lift, play, dream and wonder...what are the results? ; VG/VG

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1982., 1982. Very Good. [1st edition] ; 1st printing ; black cloth with gold lettering in red white black and gold dustjacket ; viii, 340 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 068417863X ; LCCN: 82-16950 ; OCLC: 8826208 ; "First published...1983" ; cover edges show sunning, else VG/VG

Rockford, Ill. : Tan Books and Pub., 1993, ©1948 ., 1993. Very Good. 138 pp. ; illustrations ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0895554291 (pbk.) :; 9780895554291 (pbk.) LCCN: 93-61381 ; Dewey: J222.4 ; OCLC: 46913749 ; illustrated by Gedge Harmon. ; pictorial paper wrappers ; VG

Newton Abbot : Readers Union, 1978, ©1977., 1987. Very Good. 293 pp., [8] pp. of plates ; illustrated ; 22 cm. ; OCLC: 10596643 ; "This edition is published by the Readers Union Group of Book Clubs. Originally published by Macmillan." ; beige cloth with gold lettering in photographic dustjacket ; "Ronald Knox , translator of the Bible and brilliant spokesman for Catholicisim, is the best-known of the four Knox Brothers, but all were remarkable men. The sons of an Evangelical Bishop of Manchcester, they shared a common passion for poetry, puzzles, trains , and the truth, even when their search for it led them in diametrically opposite directions."--dustjacket ; slight foxing ; sunning to dustjacket ; else VG/VG

Biponti : Ex Typographia Societatis, MDCCLXXXVI (1786)., 1786. Very Good. Editio accurata ; 2 volumes ; 23 cm. (8vo) ; LCCN: 94-201811 ; OCLC: 37116169 ; LC: BR65 ; "Cum notis J.A. Fabricii, ex Bibliotheca ecclesiastica, Hamburgi 1718 edita, p. 165 sqq."--V. 1, p. iii ; with a life of Lucius Caelius Lactantius, and a complete, very detailed index of the history of published editions of the works of Lactantius from 1465 to 1782 ; collected works here include The Divine Institution, the collected Letters, and poems, the Symposium and the Phoenix ; together with a dictionary of Greek phrases used in the text, and indices of authors and subjects, with page references ; early 19th century 1/4 brown leather with raised bands, gold lettering and marbled papers over boards ; 19th century ex-library, spine labels, stamps, date dues ; slight wear to spines ; previous 19th century owner's bookplates ; laid paper, untrimmed ; title page engravings by Weis of Julius Crispus and Constantine ; only one other set… Read More

New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; Auckland : Doubleday ; Image Books, 1994., 1994. Very Good. 1st printing of Doubleday Trade Paperback edition ; thick, photographic wrappers ; 407 pp. ; mark on spine ; remnants of label on front cover ; VG

Singapore : Asia Images Editions, 2001., 2001. As New. 224 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm. ; ISBN: 9810442076 ; OCLC: 48956365 ; blue cloth with white lettering in photographic color dustjacket ; AS NEW

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966., 1966. Very Good. viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 21 cm ; LCCN 66-11482 ; red cloth with metallic green lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; map on endpapers ; photographic plates ; dustjacket has nicks ; "Here is the electrifying story of Christian heroism that caught the world's imagination when first published in 1963 - the story of a California surgeon who took his family into the remote jungle of Congo to care for the sick and needy, only to be gunned down after being falsely accused of being a spy. The horror of Dr. Paul Carlson's death on November 24, 1964, during a rescue attempt in Kisangani (then Stanleyville), evoked shocked reactions around the world. Lois Carlson Bridges, Paul's widow, traces the impact of his faith as he sought direction for his life, and the struggle the couple faced in choosing a life of hardship over the alluring comforts of a wealthy, suburban medical practice. The sights and sounds of daily life at the Wasolo hospital -… Read More

Chicago : Claretian Publications, 1977., 1977. Very Good. xvii, 346 pp. frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm. ; LCCN: 77-73920 ; OCLC: 3131057 ; brown boards with lettering in gold and portrait of St. Anthony Mary Claret in dark brown ; ornaments to the text are derived from Spanish typographic specimen books of the late eighteenth century ; VG