Search Results: Religion from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1989. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 232pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight and immaculate sixth printing of this 1976 study originally titled "A Heart That Yearned for God."

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xxvii, 458pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear; offsetting to pp. 258-59 from long-ago newsprint contact; a few reader's notes neatly penned on rear flyleaf. Later (5th) printing of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition of this study by Lincoln Memorial University's chancellor. Tight, clean, attractive. MONAGHAN 2458.

New York: Exposition Press, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering. 118pp, (2pp). Near fine. A tight, attractive first edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Ribbed blue cloth. xxvii, 458pp. Frontispiece. Good plus. Mild binding edgewear; inner hinges expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight. Early printing of this study by Lincoln Memorial University's chancellor (1863-1936). The front flyleaf is boldly inscribed (in another hand) "Christmas Greetings from / Senator William M. Calder / with the best wishes of / The Author" followed by Hill's bold full signature. (Calder, 1869-1945, was the Republican U.S. senator from New York from 1917 to 1923.) Who the Senator presented this book to remains unknown, though it's quite likely that the pencilled notes that fill one inner flyleaf page are in his/her hand. MONAGHAN 2458.

Washington, DC: George Templeton, 1834. Hardcover. 16mo. Full calf. 155pp. Good only. Binding edgeworn and rubbed, rough at head and tail of spine and small gouge near center; text block moderately age toned throughout with hints of foxing; front flyleaf an expert contemporary replacement. Decently tight early translation of the 17th century French priest's work. Rather scarce.

Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 69pp. Illustrations. Fine. A tight and pristine first edition of this 75th anniversary history of this Chicago institution.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 32pp. Extensive full-page color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Pristinely tight and attractive first edition of this delightful tale told largely through color etchings. Boldly signed by Geisert in black ballpoint on title page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 32pp. Extensive full-page color illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb first edition of this delightful tale told largely through color etchings. Fine presentation copy, boldly inscribed and signed by the artist/author on the title page to two of the book's models: "For Joe & Pat / Thanks for posing / Arthur Geisert / III/III/MCMXCIV."

New York: David McKay Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, dust jacket. vii, 280pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition, boldly signed and inscribed ("With best wishes!") by Bradley in blue fountain pen on the half-title page. Bradley (1888-1983) was a well-known Chicago personality, author and speaker, for many years pastor of the People's Church. Unusual copy: Below Bradley's signature is another inscription in blue ballpoint: "Clarence P. Schwarz / Grand Master of / Masons in Illinois." Schwarz was a noted Chicago masonic figure (a lodge there is named in his honor), Past Master of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons in 1940 and Most Worshipful Past Grand Master in 1963-64.

Iowa City: Penfield Press, 1981. Paperback. 4to. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 75pp). Numerous illustrations. Near fine. A tight and attractive third printing of this 1975 study of seven historic Iowa villages between 1900 and 1932.

Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Memoir by the U.S. diplomat assigned to the Vatican (1989-93), boldly signed and inscribed ("With warm best wishes,") in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1911. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine and tan paper over boards with black lettering. xxv, 163pp. Numerous captioned tissue-guarded full-page plates. Very good. Faint binding wear to otherwise tight and internally fine copy. An attractive first edition of this famed exhibit held July to December 1911 -- superbly illustrated.

Marietta, GA: R. Bemis Publishing, 1995. Paperback. Introduction by Allan Nevins. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. xxii, 329pp. Fine. A wonderfully tight and pristine first of this edition.

Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 1090pp, 93pp, 23pp, 20pp. Near fine/very good. Reprint of the 22nd American edition, tight and nice.

Provo: Extension Publications, 1965. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers, three-punched. 49pp. Very good. Anthropology from the Mormon perspective -- created for the first regular course in anthropology offered at Brigham Young University.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by Anton C. Pegis. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiv, 430pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership name inkstamped on half-title page. A tight and quite nice later printing (ca. 1954-59) of #113 in this series, first published in this form in 1950.

Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 2010. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 457pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Outstandingly pristine first edition of this fightin' cleric's autobiography -- chaplain to the 82nd Airborne Division during World War Two, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, DC (1956-65) and eleventh Archbishop of New Orleans (1965-88). As Hannan died at age 98 in 2011 shortly after the release of this book, copies signed by the nonagenarian aren't seen -- but this copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a special heavy stock card signed boldly by Hannan in full in black fineline, dated by him 8 October 1970 at upper right. Laid in is the perfect bookmark -- the original signature transmittal envelope.

Concord: David Kimball, 1835. Paperback. 12mo. Plain grey/blue wrappers. 12pp. Very good. Slightest bit of age toning; mild sporatic foxing (mainly to plain outer wrappers). Probable sole edition of this interesting fine-print list of this church's beliefs. The lengthy list of church members includes the brother of famed explorer Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), ENOCH LONG, his wife ABIGAIL LONG and other family members. Enoch long was a noted resident of Alton, Illinois and noted early Alton settler who in 1837 headed a small militia unit whose job it was to protect abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy from the "angry mob." They failed and Lovejoy was shot dead. Though not so noted, this pamphlet came from Enoch Long's personal papers. A delightful New England church item with an interesting background. Not in Sabin.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. White and brown cloth, dust jacket. 249pp. Color frontispieces, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Small abrasion on front dust jacket cover from sticker removal. First edition. Unique tale of the friendship between Pope John XXIII and Giacomo Manzu, a Communist artist who had lost his religious faith.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1955. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pale Red paper over boards, dust jacket.158pp. Very good/very good. A tight, clean, nice first edition.