Cincinnati: Swormstedt & Poe, 1855. Later edition. 16mo. 166, [2[, 197 p. Original blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. First published in 1844-1845, the memoirs of a retired itinerant Methodist minister. Boards worn with exposure. Hinges starting but binding holding. Foxing to pages but overall text legible. [Howes S-953]. More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. Octavo; xlix, 196pp. Blue-gray boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their bookplate to front pastedown and usual markings. Boards are sturdy and square with some light smudging to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Surface abrasion from removed card pocket on rear..... More
New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. First Edition. 12mo. 310; 130pp. + 4pp. advertisements. Two plates including frontis, complete. Bound in publisher's embossed brown cloth with spine decorated in gilt; pale yellow endpapers. Boards chipped at spine ends with shallow loss to crown; corners bumped with brief exposure; spine sunned..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. First American Edition. Octavo; 142pp. Printed dust jacket. White cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket worn along edges with fading along spine and staining along bottom edges. Boards show shelfwear and patchy soiling. Binding sound; contemporary gift inscription to preliminaries;..... More
New York: Shilo Publishing House, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, blue topstain, in blue dust jacket; vi,[2],424pp. Light shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More
New York: Shilo Publishing House, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket; vi,[2],424pp. Moderate wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, a few short closed tears, front flap creased, corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More
Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front..... More
[New York: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1866.] Twenty-four volumes in one; tabloid format (36cm.); contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; 96pp.; illus. throughout, text in triple columns. Boards quite rubbed and leather dried and chipped, one-inch losses at both spine ends, shallow damp stain to textblock fore-edge, general old soil throughout, else Good..... More
Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey / New Haven, CT: Printed by Shepard Kollock / Abel Morse, for the Editors, who Hold the Privilege of Copy-Right, 1791-1793. First Edition, "Never Before Published" according to the publisher. Four small quarto volumes, first three published in 1791 and fourth follow-up volume first published in 1793..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.50); xxv,[1],506pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, shallow crease to front flap, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Collection of documents all to..... More
Venetia [Venice]: Presso Marco degli Alberti, Alla Libraria della Speranza, 1605. New, Corrected Edition. Small octavo; full contemporary parchment, contemporary manuscript spine title, all edges stained blue; [16],99pp.; woodcut title page vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Light scuffing and soil to parchment, small gouge to upper cover fore-edge, else a...... More
Paris: Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, [1873]. Short, thick octavo; contemporary gilt-tooled calf, original crimson gilt-lettered wrappers bound in; viii,534pp.; chromolithographed frontispiece, forty-seven (47) leaves of plates, text printed within red rule throughout. Leather a bit scuffed and dried along margins, a few faint surface scratches to rear cover, else Very Good, internally..... More
Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1904. First Edition. Slim octavo; vii,[1],127pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock a bit shaken in binding, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Clarence N. McHose to front pastedown, neat contemporary manuscript annotations to final leaf of illustrations..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1837. First Edition. Octavo. 373 pp. Engraved series title page with Edwards portrait ; facsimile letters to start of each section. Full contemporary calf with black leather labels to spine; marbled endpapers. Ex-library with no external markings; institutional bookplate and stamp (E.C. Scranton Memorial Library..... More
New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1980. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered boards; [8],404pp. Light dust-soil to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Collection of pieces by the German-born rabbi printed facsimile from the originals. Text almost entirely..... More
New York: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning / Harper & Brothers, [1953]. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket; xii,248pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, corners gently tapped, spotting to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown and later ownership signature to..... More
Temple, PA: The Consistory, 1959. Octavo. 69 pages. Black and white photographs. Pale blue wraps stamped in black. Covers sunned at spine with some intermittent staining. Sound in binding and pages unmarked. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First Edition. Octavo; xix, 374pp. Publisher's black boards red and gilt titling to front and spine. No dust jacket. Boards are sturdy and square with light edgewear. A couple small specks to fore-edge of textblock. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1911. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in gilt; 230pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Corners a bit bumped, spine cocked and lettering entirely effaced, textblock rather shaken in binding, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a Good..... More
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Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1884. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (20 cm); mixed pagination; illus. throughout; frontispiece and 8 full color maps. Boards full bound in dark mustard cloth with gilt and black stamping. Gray mauve endsheets. Boards generally soiled and scuffed with bumping and subbing to spine ends and corners..... More