Religion from Berthoff Books

The Macmillan Company, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 230 pages, with index, bibliography. From jacket blurb: "A portrait of the most praised and vilified of modern Churchmen--Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church--and of the dilemma he faced as religious leader in a militantly secular society." 8vo, deep red cloth with gilt lettering, maroon topstain, rough-cut edges,… Read more about this item

Tyndale Momentum, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 236 pages. Color illustrations on four double-sided plates. Introduction by coach Frank Reich. Written by the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, and seminary student, in the aftermath of winning the Super Bowl. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering, practically no visible wear, dust jacket has light shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 330 pages, with index. Written by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. Illustrated throughout with color photos and diagrams. Sets forth a vision of Earth's future, humankind's relationship with Nature. Portrait-book size (7-3/4" x 10"), green cloth with gilt lettering… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, Inc., 1975. Soft cover. Good. 359 pages plus xvi pages front matter, with bibliographies of ancient and modern sources, indexes of authors and subjects. First Dover edition, "an unabridged and unaltered republication of the second (1928) edition". Trade paperback, light shelf wear, very faint foxing to edges. Underscoring and/or margin brackets/stars on approximately 90 pages. … Read more about this item

Penguin Classics, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. 364 pages, with Index, Genealogies of English Kings, Translator's Introduction which includes life of the Venerable Bede. Translation by Leo Sherley-Price first issued 1955, revised in 1968 by R.E. Latham; this is 10th printing of 1968 edition. Mass-market paperback, scant wear, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked. … Read more about this item

The Octagon Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 256 pages, with index. A survey of secret societies from ancient to modern times, including the Assassins, Knights Templar, Sufi, Mithra cults, Rosicrucians, others. 8vo, red material over boards, in dust jacket, with outer transparent jacket heavy-stapled all the way through the DJ and the boards, edges and page… Read more about this item

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 678 pages, with Index, Glossary, General Introduction; separate introductions to the Old Testament (Alter) and New Testament (Kermode). Essays on each book of the Bible. Large trade paperback (6-1/2" x 10"), shelf wear including small chip at crown, page-turning soil, pages unmarked. Laid in is a… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1518 pages, with Prefaces to first and second editions, List of Contributors, list of Abbreviations, list of Popes and Anti-Popes, short biography of Frank Leslie Cross, compiler of the 1957 first edition. The dictionary is laid out in two columns; the content is encyclopedic, with some entries several… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press - Cambridge University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 447 pages, with Preface by the chairman of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible, comprised of representatives of various Protestant denominations, and translators' Introduction. Seventh printing. The edition includes some explanatory footnotes on terms and alternate readings. Medium 8vo (6" x 9-1/4"), dark… Read more about this item

The Abingdon Press, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1452 pages, with index. Color maps on six plates. First edition, second printing. Foreword by David G. Downey, five-page list of the scholars who contributed. Includes overall articles and book-by-book commentaries on the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament, and the New Testament. The text is… Read more about this item

Oxford at the University Press. Hardcover. Good. 208 pages. Year of publication not stated, but before 1950. English text of 14 books, laid out in columns. 32mo (3-3/4" x 5"), black with rubbed gilt lettering, wear to corners/crown/heel, faded red stain to edges, end papers and flyleaf age-toned with faint foxing, last several pages accidentally creased at bottom… Read more about this item

The Orion Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 103 pages, with List of Plates, Chronology, essay on Blake's illuminated books. Plates include illuminations from Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; prophecies (Europe, America), The Book of Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem. "Plates printed in 6- and 8-color offset on [matte]… Read more about this item

Thames and Hudson, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 96 pages, with Captions to the Plates (48 in color - full pages and details; additional b&w reproductions), Introduction, Reading List, five chapters on the background, the scribes, the technique, and the history of the manuscript. The editor was the Librarian of Trinity College, Dublin, where the ms.… Read more about this item

Harper Torchbooks, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 312 pages. Winds of Doctrine is a collection of six essays on 19th-20th century issues in philosophy, including ones on Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, modernism, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Platonism and the Spiritual Life is a nearly 100-page essay. Trade paperback, sunned to brown on spine, light shelf wear, crease to front… Read more about this item

Hal Leonard, 2006. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 96 pages. Melody, Words and Chords for 72 Favorite Carols and Songs. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, wear to corners, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages unmarked.

Tau Cross Books And Media, 2014. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 357 pages, revised edition with preface by Justin Cardinal Rigali, foreword to the revised edition by translator Lori Pieper, and biographical introduction. Sermons and articles from 1959-1978, the two decades before John Paul I's four-week papacy. Trade paperpack, tiny bit of wear visible to corners,… Read more about this item

P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 223 pages, with index. The authors of this early biography of Pope John XXIII are a veteran of the Vatican Secretariat of State and a Romance language professor at Seton Hall University. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. 8vo, gilt paper over boards with white cloth quarter, gilt lettering… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 453 pages plus 58 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, including list of the 44 b&w photo illustrations, Introduction by Mgr Loris Capovilla, Meditation by Fr Giulio Bevilacqua, bibliographical note, and chronology. Translated from Italian by Dorothy White. The book has six sections: I John's journal from 1895 to 1962; II Four Letters;… Read more about this item

Guiod Perss (American Press), 1966. Soft cover. Good. 793 pages plus 22 Roman-numeraled pages of front matter, with index and list of abbreviations. With introductions and commentaries by Catholic Bishops and experts, responses by Protestant and Orthodox scholars. The Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph Gallagher was the translation editor. Introduction by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. Essay "An Adventure in Ecumenical… Read more about this item

Reader's Digest Press (E.P. Dutton), 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 338 pages plus 12 pages front matter, with bibliography, index. Introductory comment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Illustrated with b&w photos on 12 double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light shelf wear, a little soil to edges and large… Read more about this item