Search Results: Authors starting with C from Chilton Books

Sudbury : Henry S. Pratt, 1863 .. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 8" x 5.5" x 0.75" . [2pp.]/pp.110 . Blue cloth over bevelled boards, with blind stamp decoration and gilt title to front board, edges lightly rubbed. Smooth spine also with gilt titles (now dulled). All page edges bright gilt. Light spotting to endpapers. Previous owner's details to verso of front board. Clean English text throughout. Each page of text within a printed frame of branches. A very good copy of a scarce book.

W.C.C. 1968.. Pp 48, some b/w illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

London: SCM. 1954.. An Ecumenical survey prepared under the auspices of the World Council of Churches". Pp 68. P/b, slight rusting to staples, marks to spine. G+.

Geneva: WCC, 1973.. Rep. A Statement commended by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, August 1973 for study, comment and action. 24.5. x 16.5. Pp. 19, slight toning to pages. P/b. slight scuffing to spine, slight crease to front cover. G+.

Department on the Laity. 1964.. Contains short descriptions of what has happened, is happening, and is being planned in the different continents, as well as lists of study and lay training centres". Pp 64, some b/w illustrations. P/b, scuffing to spine, crease to front cover. G+.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.. 1st ed. Collection of reviews and literary essays, written between 1860 and 1911 by W.D. Howells. Pp. 14/493, toning to endpapers. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w price-clipped. VG/G+.

Oxford: Lion Pub, 2001.. Rep. "This unique presentation of Jesus and his times is for believers and non-believers alike. Thomas Cahill invites readers into an ancient world to commune with some of the most influential people who ever lived." Pp.353. P/b. VG.

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1897.. 1st edition. Contents: I.Science and the Spiritual in Nature; II.Science and the Mystery of Evil; III.Science and the "Mystery of Pain"; IV.Science and Immortality; V.The Relation of Science to the Scriptures; VI.Science and Prayer; VII.Faith and Sight. 18cms x 10cms. Pp.95/8(publisher's catalogue), green floral endpapers. Grey cloth, small publisher's label to front board. G+.

London: James Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1898.. 1st edition. Contents include: Man and the Order of Nature; The Facts of the Christian Revelation; The Ideal and Actual Relation Between God and Man and God and Nature; The Scientific Aspect of Nature and the Christian Revelation; The Ethical Aspect of the Christian Revelation; The Relation of the Scriptures to the Christian Revelation; The Resurrection of the Body; Will and Belief. Pp.122/ 1(list of other publications by the author). Grey/green cloth, gilt title to spine, red title and slightly rubbed publisher's label to front board. G+.** "Caillard, Emma Marie � (1852 � 1927). British novelist and writer Emma Caillard was born (Feb 6, 1852), the eldest daughter of Judge Camille Caillard (1822 � 1898), of Wingfield House, near Trowbridge, and his first wife Emma Louisa Reynolds, of Canonsgrove, near Taunton. Emma was the eldest sister of Sir Vincent Penalva Caillard (1856 � 1930), whilst her mother was a cousin to Benjamin Disraeli, the favoured prime… Read More

London: SCM, 1944.. 1st ed. "Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today". Pp. 128. Slight spotting to page edges. Inscrip. to verso front board. Blue cloth, d/w with slight chipping to spine. G/G.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955.. 1st British edition which includes the first British hardcover printing of Sinful Woman. Two novels of violent action and emotion. Pp224, minor spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to inside front board. Black cloth, illustrated dustwrapper worn with edge tears and small losses but now in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce in dustwrapper. G+/Good.** "James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 � October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir. Several of his crime novels inspired highly successful movies[The Postman Always Rings Twice; Double Indemnity; Mildred Pierce]."(wiki).

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.. 1st Penguin edition. "This is the story of a perfect murder. Perfect until a mistaken justice, with superb irony, overtakes the murderers". Pp.122/5(publisher's catalogue), pages tanned. Paperback, title to spine and front spine edge tanned, minor wear to spine edges. Good.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.. 1st edition. International Library of Sociology series. "Dr Cain's main concern is to discover the source of what she calls 'the policeman's world view'. She directs light on police organization and behaviour, and offers an explanation of police behaviour in terms of role pressures and definitions..." Pp.x/315/14(publisher's catalogue), owner's name to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge wear. G+/G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.. 1st Penguin edition. "In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success" (Time). Pp.189, slight toning to pages. Paperback, slightly toned. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.. The Pelican Gospel Commentaries. Pp.271+map, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to pages. Paperback, a little scuffed. G+.

London: Duckworth, 1993.. Roman empire and first century Judaism...Rise of the early Christian community...Achievements of St. Paul...The break between Christianity and Judaism and the conflict between Christ and Caesar." Pp. 222. Paperback. VG.

London: SCM,1933.. 5th edition. Pp.256/3(ads)., small owner's name to inside front board Green cloth, rubbed, title to spine dulled. G.

London:SCM,1960.. 1st ed. The Preacher's Library series. "Rudolph Bultmann claims to have produced a Gospel free of myth, This book is an attempt to evaluate his theology, with particular emphasis on its challenge to the preacher called today to present the Christian faith to a generation which regards its terminology as obscurantist. Professor Cairns pays special attention to Martin Heidegger who, Bultmann believes, has provided non-mythological and adequate concepts which can govern both theology and preaching. He(Cairns) concludes with an outline of an alternative theory." Pp.232, signed by the author to front free endpaper. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

London: SCM,1937.. 1st ed. " This book is addressed to the intelligentia, that large body of men and women in all social classes who are interested in things of the spirit. They will find here a reasoned vindication of the substance of our faith, triumphantly sustained without either denying or shirking common and present difficulties". (Guardian). Pp.8/378/2(ads). Green cloth, d/w darkened and slightly rubbed. VG/G+.

Boston:Beacon Press,1950.. 1st ed. "This is the story of men who have dared to form the vanguard in new ideas as the world has grown older...Familiar characters appear in these pages under a new light - Moses, Akhenaton, Arius, Servetus, Spinoza." Pp.10/185,review copy slip loosely inserted. Blue cloth, illustrated d/w rubbed and chipped. G+/G.