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Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 1st ed, complete number line; 8vo, purple cloth; vg (light fading to boards; spine ends and bottom corner of front board lightly bumped) in nf dj (light edgewear); 330pp incl. index; incl. is a folded 3-page dot-matrix computer printout of a letter from the author to a fellow professor. A cultural study and biography of one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Unitarian students during the 1830's.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852. First Thus . Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Later edition, first in this form, original in 1736; Edited by G. R. Crooks with a Life of Bishop Butler as well as notes and an index and an unfinished Analysis by Rev. Robert Emory; rebound in brown leather with gilt lettering and new brown marbled endpapers; new boards nf (shelfwear), interior good (considerable foxing; pages toned and stiff).

London: W. Stewart & Co.. Hardcover. Good. Probable First Edition; no date in book but owner's name dated 1920; 12mo, purple cloth, no dj; good (edges of boards sunned, spine faded to light brown; white spot on front board; spine ends torn, bumped, and worn; cracked at p1, 16-7; 80-1, 96-7, 112-3, 128-7, 176-7; owner's name on front pastedown); 224pp + 6pp ads, it appears several pages of ads (on blue paper, bound in as a separate stapled unit) are missing.

Chicago: J.S. Hyland, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good-. Edition unknown, pasted-in Imprimatur dated 1914; INSCRIBED from 'the Author', but no signature, on ffep to Albert T. Daeger, the 6th Archbishop of Santa Fe and dated 11-27-1922; 12mo, purple cloth, no dj; vg- (boards rubbed and soiled; wrinkle to front cover; spine faded; spine ends and corners bumped and worn); 430pp incl. index.

London: Abel Roper and Roger Clavel, 1697. First Thus . Hardcover. Good. First Thus, an awkward verse translation; 12mo, rebacked with new spine, new endpapers, and original boards; good (original leather boards scratched, rubbed, and worn; boards heavily worn on all edges, often to board; corners bumped and worn; bottom corners to worn corners now rounded; bottom corner of frontispiece chipped off, does not affect illustration; pages foxed and toned; ink notation to margins of several pages throughout, possibly printed but appears to be drawn; pencil writing to margins of several pages throughout; top corners of pp41-43 creased; hole and brown stain to middle of p79-80, affects two words of text, destroying one; large stain to side edge of pp89-94); 328pp.

Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Committee for Publication, 1899. Hardcover. Good. A very scarce book by a Presbyterian minister who was active in 'debunking'; he wrote many articles against the Mormons as well, and against evolutionary science. 12mo, brown cloth with bevelled edges, no dj; good (rear cover soiled; gilt on spine darkened; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; hinges starting; owner's name on ffep; ffep and title page creased and torn along side edge; foxing to eps, none in text; eps and pages toned). 321pp incl. index.

New York: P. O'Shea, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good-. Probably First Thus; 8vo, original brick red cloth; vg- (light soiling to front board and spine; owner's library number on sunned and dull spine; spine ends crimped; corners worn; edges, eps, and pages toned); 651pp.

London: Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1923. First Edition . Soft cover. Good+. First Edition: 1923 stated on inside rear cover in all five volumes; 16mos, sewn green paper covers; overall, good+ (covers toned and creased; edges of covers worn, bumped, torn, and creased; corners bumped and creased, affects pages; sewn ends torn and worn; pages toning; stain spot to side edge of front cover of True Religion; stains to top edge of rear cover of Doctrine of the Trinity); 16pp, 16pp, 16pp, 31pp, and 14pp.

Lyon/Paris: Librairie Catholique de Perisse Freres, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Seconde Edition stated; 3 vols, French text only; 12mo, half-leather, marbled boards and eps, speckled edges, gilt thistle devices on spines; good (marbled boards worn, rubbed, and chipped; shelfworn; leather on spines worn and rubbed; owner wrote numbers on spines; spine ends worn; corners worn to boards; side edges of vIII's boards heavily worn and chipped to boards; waterstains and discoloration to side edges of front and rear eps and first and last pages in vIII).

Amsteldam (Amsterdam): Garardus Borstius, 1705. Hardcover. Good. Rare book by d'Outrien, a prominent Dutch cleric; two parts bound together in one volume; Dutch text only; 16mo, original vellum binding; good (vellum boards and spine soiled, stained, darkened, and worn; boards warped and bowed; remnant from object possibly melted onto rear board still attached to rear board; author and title handwritten on spine; spine ends and corners bumped, crimped, and worn; edges worn, soiled, and darkened; broken at pp96-7 of 'de Verstroosting'; textblock darkened; stains and soil to several pages throughout; tear to rear pastedown; eps and pages toned); 259pp and 292pp.

Bucharest: Humanitas, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Romanian text of C. S. Lewis's Miracles, The Four Loves, and The Problem of Pain; 8vo, paper covers; Romanian text only; vg (front cover rubbed and scratched; rear cover dustsoiled; spine toned, ends bumped and creased; edges toned), binding tight, 454pp.

Koln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. The Lectures of Buddha in FIVE volumes; German text ONLY; orange trade paperbacks, in slipcase; vg (spine darkened and lightly creased; corners splayed and worn) in a vg cardboard slipcase (residue from removed sticker on one panel; corners bumped, crimped, and worn; waterspots on bottom end).

Rome: Collegio Urbano, 1853. Hardcover. Good. Edition unknown, a scarce collection of essays and sermons by an anonymous author; 4to, three-quarter vellum; Italian text; good (boards and spine quite worn and soiled; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; sporadic foxing; bottom corners of pages from ffep to p44 stained; long tear to last page, Imprimatur); 152pp.

Amsterdam: Gerardus Borstius, 1696. Hardcover. Good+. Den negenden dzult, Ninth Edition, stated; Dutch text only; 16mo, original vellum with repaired internal hinges; good+ (vellum boards and spine soiled, stained, and darkened; tear to top joint end of front board; title piece chipped from spine; spine ends and corners crimped, bumped, and worn; tears to pastedowns; penciled shorthand notes on front pastedown; bookworm holes, mainly off the text, near the spine at the bottom edge in front, from ffep through the Opdragt and Aansprakk to p17 of 'der Godlyke', and in back, from p115-234; bookworm holes affect very last word in text from first page of Opdragt to middle of Aanspraak; large waterstain to top corner from title page to p50; waterstain to side edges of pp21-50); 282pp of Lutheran theology by d'Outrein (1662-1722).

Madrid: Matute/Aguado. Hardcover. Good. Two books bound as one, published 1844 and 1842 respectively, both concerning Spanish Catholic religious schooling, Spanish text. 8vo, vellum spine, marble boards; good only (marbled boards are heavily rubbed and scraped to boards; marble paper chipped and torn; 1.5 inch tear to top of rear joint; leather spine title pieces printed off-center; waterstains on side edges and bottom corners of pages throughout; broken at title page for Independencia).

New Mexico: P.A.D.R.E.S., 1979. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good-. 1st, a softcover post-bound between laminated covers, vg- (edgewear, owner's name on tp). 368 pp. A collection of religious lyrics, first Spanish, then a smaller section of English ones.

Hanover: Nicolaus Forster, 1712. Hardcover. Very Good-. From the noblest church elders not only translated as is but explained in a clear manner and the words of the story explained at the same time". [Our translation]. Originally written in French by the Society of the Maison du Port-Royal and edited by Messers Arnold und Sacy. This book was translated into German. The author was a respected French theologian and philosopher who lived from 1612-1694. Vg- overall, bound in 18th-century plain white vellum; the covers are a little darkened and soiled, and the pastedowns have been torn by the flaps of the vellum, which doesn't want to stay put. Ffep has a 1789 owner's name in ink and an 1868 name in pencil. Other than some minor foxing on the first blank pages, the interior is very clean; pages a little stiff. 477 pp. + 25-p. index.

Contemporary Evangelism, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good-. These memoirs of the wife of a Southern Baptist circuit rider are INSCRIBED on the title page and the copyright page; the inscription is a very long and peronal one, referring to her divorce and other unpleasant things; trade paperback; vg- (covers rubbed and scratched; heavily edgeworn; spine faded; inside covers, edges, and pages toned); 197pp.

New York: Schocken/Jewish Museum, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. Intro by Cecil Roth. 1st, 4to, brown cloth, vg- (cocked; bumps to bottom edge of rear board; spine ends and corners bumped; bookplate on front free endpaper) in good dj (worn at corners and spine bottom; spine head chipped and torn; short tear at top of the foreedge of the front flap); 143 pp. incl. index.

New York: William Gowans, 1857. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, brown cloth with gilt stamped spine, no dj; fair (bottom edges worn to boards; spine head worn to headband; spine tail chipped with small tears; corners rubbed to boards; ffep torn out; prev. owner's name stamped on both sides of first page with inked number; moderate foxing esp. to first half; pages stiff); 312pp incl. index.