Making the Earth a Human Dwelling Place: Essays in the Philosophy and Anthropology of Culture and Religion by Thomas Mooren - 2000

London, United Kingdom: Watts & Co., 1900. "Prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal MP for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918." This is his most celebrated work. CONDITION Green bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn) pp xviii 484 plus publishers list to rear. Copy is very tight and clean, eps age browned with name and partial erasure to ffep, 3 name stamps to front pages at title page, preamble which also has inked quote from cicero, and top of first page of text. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hartford, CT: Church Missions Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 42 + 53 + 15 + 39 + [1] + 52. A collection of biographies of notable Episcopal Bishops in the Soldier and Servant Series. With several illustrations and many pages unopened. Bound in publisher's grey paper over cardstock with printed title and other information on front cover. From the Hart Family library (and with an advert for a biography of Hart by one of the authors). Cover and page edges lightly soiled and sooted (apparently from the fire that destroyed much of the Hart library). From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892,… Read More

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Davison Press. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. 74 pp., all half-tone photographs; square 12mo; stapled white wrappers of coated stock. Soil to covers. All photographs were taken in the last four years while traveling in the United States, Western Europe, and North Africa. .

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 269pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square & clean, corners of boards slightly bent, original decorated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, small stain to title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 149pp; Minor staining to DJ, previous owner's name to FFEP, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Scarce vintage monograph on Manx phonology. University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Monographs No. 2.

London, United Kingdom: Watts & Co., 1900. "Prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal MP for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918." This is his most celebrated work. CONDITION Green bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn) pp xviii 484 plus publishers list to rear. Copy is very tight and clean, eps age browned with name and partial erasure to ffep, 3 name stamps to front pages at title page, preamble which also has inked quote from cicero, and top of first page of text. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hartford, CT: Church Missions Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 42 + 53 + 15 + 39 + [1] + 52. A collection of biographies of notable Episcopal Bishops in the Soldier and Servant Series. With several illustrations and many pages unopened. Bound in publisher's grey paper over cardstock with printed title and other information on front cover. From the Hart Family library (and with an advert for a biography of Hart by one of the authors). Cover and page edges lightly soiled and sooted (apparently from the fire that destroyed much of the Hart library). From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892,… Read More

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Davison Press. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. 74 pp., all half-tone photographs; square 12mo; stapled white wrappers of coated stock. Soil to covers. All photographs were taken in the last four years while traveling in the United States, Western Europe, and North Africa. .

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 269pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square & clean, corners of boards slightly bent, original decorated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, small stain to title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 149pp; Minor staining to DJ, previous owner's name to FFEP, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Scarce vintage monograph on Manx phonology. University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Monographs No. 2.