Specializing in C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Inklings & "The Seven"
North Carolina: Self Published, 1968. Black and White Illustrations. Paperback. A history with extensive cemetery records from 1836 to 1936 of St. John in the Wilderness, an historic and beautiful church in Flat Rock, North Carolina within the Western North Carolina mountains. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf.....
Item #072399
Boston: American Tract Society, c1870. Hardcover. 265 pp. Owner's name on the first front end sheet. Some light foxing. Binding tight. Covers scuffed rather heavily. Gilt text on spine is bright. Full refund if not satisfied. 6.5" x 4.25"
Item #075148
New York: American Tract Society, c1840. Hardcover. Chapter 1: The Nature and Forms of Self-Deception. Chapter 2: The Danger of Self-Deception. Chapter 3: The Consequences of Self-Deception. Chapter 4 Self-Deception liable to prove Permanent. Chapter 5: The Remedy for Self-Deception.72 pp. Owner's name on the first front end paper. A......
Item #075147
Wichita, Kansas: Defender Publishers, 1937. Illustrated. First Edition. Softcover. This vintage booklet is bound in sky blue softcover with black lettering and decoration on the front cover. Side stapled. Illustrated with black and white photos occasionally throughout. Chapters include: Tearing China Apart Limb by Limb; Beasts of Burden; Red Russia;.....
Item #075146
Grand Rapids, MI: Reformed Press, c1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bedinger was a Presbyterian minister from Alabama. The book is in nice condition with a tight binding. Owner's name on first front end paper and a small amount of neat underlining in pencil. Full refund if not satisfied. 7.25" x 4.75".....
Item #075145
New York: Robert Carter, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. King was a minister in Glasgow, Scotland. 190 pp. plus a catalog of 12 pages. Binding is tight. Large inscription on the first front end paper. Full refund if not satisfied. 6.5" x 4.25"
Item #075144
Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Radio Bible Class, [1946]. First Edition. Softcover. This small, rare, first edition booklet was published shortly after the atom bomb was first released in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "A "A Simple Examination of the Technical Aspects of the Atomic Bomb and Its Relation to the.....
Item #075143
Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1840. Hardcover. Abridged. 150 pp. plus two pages of ads. William Plumer was a well known 19th century graduate of Princeton Seminary. He served in a variety of roles in Virginia and Pennsylvania and started a periodical called Watchman of the South. He was theologically orthodox.....
Item #075142
New York: Macmillan, 1949. Maps by Clark Ray. First Edition. Hardcover. A military study of the Civil War. 902 pp. with continuous pagination from volume 1 to volume 2. Large index. The condition of these two books is marvelous. Only the slightest of shelf wear. No writing in the books.....
Item #075140
Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, 1937. Paperback. After removing opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor strikes, Mussolini and his followers consolidated power through laws that transformed Italy into a one-party dictatorship. Appendix, 49 pp. followed by publishers advertisements. CONDITION: Paperback, stapled binding. Light rubbing on covers, unmarked text. Previous.....
Item #075138
Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, No date, c. 1935. Second Printing. Paperback. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Pamphlet published by Defender Publishers--Companion Books On Communism listed at back of pamphlet. 50 pp. CONDITION: Illustrated paperback.....
Item #075137
New York: Brentano's, 1921. First American Edition. Hardcover. Preface and a series of five plays. 300 pp. Condition: Green cloth hardcopy entitled on spine within white label. Edges and corners worn; covers soiled and rubbed, binding tight. Interior moisture evidence. Very good reading copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #075135
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. Hardcover. Volume I: xxxii, 784 pp. Volume II: xxii, pages 785-1481. Hardbound burgundy boards, gilt title on spine. Normal shelf wear to edges and corners. Ex-library, stamps, labels, notations, pockets. Memorial Publication column affixed to front free endpapers. Text free of writing, easily read.....
Item #075134
Edinburgh: The Knox Press, 1974. Hardcover. "One of the most useful books every published. Surveys the whole field of Scottish theology and passes judgment on all from the viewpoint of orthodoxy."--Kenneth A. MacRae, Stornoway. CONDITION: Navy hardcopy, gilt title on spine. Pictorial dust jacket, price sticker on flap. Jacket flaps.....
Item #075133
New York: George P. Putnam, 1948. Woodcut Illustrations. Hardcover. Layard recounts his adventures excavating the ruins of ancient Nineveh, providing interesting, informative accounts of his discoveries and travails in the field. Great detail is given to the many locations visited, descriptions of the ruins, customs of the people and the.....
Item #075132
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. Early Reprint. Thomas De Quincey was an English essayist and critic; he first took opium as pain relief for facial neuralgia. In a number of years, he became addicted. In volume, he warns of the dangers of addiction with contrasting subjective opinions about its.....
Item #075131
Oxford, UK: Phaidon Christie's, 1987. Hardcover. Navy cloth hardcopy entitled in gilt on cover and spine; endpaper artwork. Painting on dust jacket. 504 pp. Like new. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #075130
Oxford: Paidon Christie's, 1985. Hardcover. "Christie's Review of the Season' is unsurpassed as an informative and beautifully illustrated record of the international art market, providing every art-lover with a front row seat at many of the most important and exciting sales of the past year. Hundreds of brilliant colour illustrations.....
Item #075129
Wichita, Kansas: Defender Publishers, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. This rare copy was written by Dr. Gerald B. Winrod, editor of "The Defender Magazine", and a controversial figure and American fascist who claimed to be a Christian, yet was staunchly anti semitic, and a Hitler sympathizer who thought that the Nazis.....
Item #075127
Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Sword of the Lord Foundation, No Date Listed; Circa 1960. First Thus; Reprinted by Permiss. Softcover. Vintage booklet by William Jennings Bryan, an American attorney and Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, known for his participation in defending Creationism in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Paper covers.....
Item #075125
Danville, VT: Ebenezer Eaton, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. In American Bibliography 1818 page 223. A faint inscription reads "[name illegible] from his friend the author." The author was Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Societies in Ryegate, Topsham, Barnet, and Craftsbury. 297 pp. followed by 2 pages of index and one.....
Item #075124
Mexico City: Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, 1989. Diego Rivera (Artwork); Enrique Franco Torrijos and Bob Schalkwijk (Photography). Limited, Second Edition. Hardcover. This second edition was limited to 1,000 copies printed. Bound in a greenish yellow publisher's cloth with green lettering on the cover and spine. This very large.....
Item #075123
Cincinnati: G. W. Lasher, 1883. Hardcover. Nice condition. Neat pencil presentation on second leaf. Red page edges. Binding tight. Full refund if not satisfied. 7" x 4.75"
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Hartford: D. B. Moseley, 1846. Second Edition. Hardcover. The author was an educator, a physician, a moralist, a vegetarian and author of 108 books. He was also superintendent of Sunday School in a Congregational church. 317 pp. No writing in the book which is foxed. Binding tight. A nice copy.....
Item #075121
Boston: Wentworth, Hewes, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Inside the front cover is a book plate for Ellison A. Smyth, Charleston, S. C. Ellison was the son of prominent Presbyterian theologian and pastor Thomas Smyth. Ellison made a fortune in the mill business in South Carolina and retired to Flat Rock.....
Item #075120