Search Results: Religion Other Than Asian from Singularity Rare & Fine

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine book; Very Good jacket. See scans. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970. First American Edition of American Thought & Religious Typology. Translated from the German by John Hoaglund. Octavo, medium blue jacket, black boards with gilt spine imprinting, original erratum notation tipped in at title page (scan), x + 265 pp. A Fine book in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket which shows rubbing but is quite complete and sturdy. See scans. A scarce first of Brumm's remarkable, scholarly treatise on the influence of Puritan thought on subsequent American literature; the Religious Typology of the title refers to the medieval-through-1700's religious practice of interpreting Old Testament elements as prefigurations of Christ's life and redemptory sacrifice. Scarce first edition, in handsome condition. Please see scans. LT21

Nashville, TN: Athlon Sports Communications, Inc., 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, and pristine. See description and scans. Nashville, TN: Athlon Sports Communications, Inc., 2018. 'Angels & Saints - The Amazing Story of God's Messengers', an Athlon Special edited by Robert Rosenberg. Quarto, illustrated perfect bound wraps, 96 pp. New, and without flaw. A graphically beautiful, and information-laden, offering on the subject topics - Angels & Saints. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR38

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco [HarperCollins], 1991. First Edition . Cloth-backed Paper-covered Bds. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Harper-Collins, 1991. First Edition / First Printing. Signed by Donner in presentation to noted cinema director Oliver Stone; very strong provenance on this, of course. Octavo, 303 pp., charcoal cloth and parchment paper boards, pictorial jacket as shown in scan. Fine/Fine, As New. See scans. Jacket is in a protective acetate jacket. A unique presentation copy of the first edition, first printing of Florinda Donner's mesmerizing sequel to Carlos Castaneda's brilliant and uncategorizable series of novels about his experiences with Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian sorcerer, a literary sequence itself primally original and defiant of definition, dealing at once with magic, anthropology, spiritualism, drugs, philosophy, and whatever the term might be for what one does when one goes beyond zen in the course of self (and… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. New. See scans and description. New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. 'The Book of Heaven: A Novel', by Patricia Storace. Octavo, illustrated jacket, white boards with black thread texturing, 366 pp. (365 +1). New, and flawless, though there is a retailer's bar code sticker over the jacket bar code on jacket rear panel (see scans). Prize-winning poet Storace tells a tale in which the question "what if a woman's point of view were God's?" is examined. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L31

New York: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1858. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. New York: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1858. First Edition thus. The rare first American edition of Eyre & Spottiswoode's book of common prayer. A demure little 24mo size book, just over 5" tall; full dark brown morocco boards, ornate lacquered brass trim at board edges (see scans), gilt spine imprinting, original owner's name in gilt on front cover (scan), All Edges Gilt, dark brown endpapers, hinge-bead-clasp closure with the clasp itself removed by the original owner as was commonly the case because of its interference, unpaginated but at least six hundred pages. A quite-handsome Very Good or better; small-scale peripheral scuffing, a crack at the front hinge (which is nonetheless still quite stoutly integral), modest toning to the pages inside, and really not much else to point to; clasp, as noted, was removed by the original owner,… Read More

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1887 (cover), 1888 (title page); copyright page shows 1879 copyright. 16mo, printed buff boards with black cloth spine, 218 pp. Map, Britain in the Time of St. Augustine, between page 190 and 191. Good plus to About Very Good; an inexpensively produced - and generally much referred to - book. Hinges loose, spotting to covers, corners worn. See Scan. An extremely scarce early example of this scholarly work by the eminent Henry Yates Satterlee, in straightforward question-and-answer format, with biblical citations where called for. L-30n

Syracuse, NY: Diocese of Syracuse, 1940. Soft cover. Very Good. Syracuse, NY: Diocese of Syracuse, no date but circa 1940. Religious ephemera: the Congregational Participation at the Mass of Ordination for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse. Quarto, single-fold folded wraps, four pages including covers. Very Good, approaching Near fine; marginal age-toning; modest corner wear. See scan. Title page (front cover) bears a processional. Contents include a lengthy Litany of the Saints, a Latin prayer "Veni Creator Spiritus, and offertory, "Lord Accept the Gifts We Offer", and the hymns "O Lord I Am Not Worthy", "Jesus My Lord My God My All", and "Holy God We Praise They Name". L-eph

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. First Edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Critics of the Bible, 1724-1873 (Cambridge English Prose Texts series), by John Drury, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. Octavo, brown cloth boards with red and gilt front cover label, gilt imprinting on spine, 213 (ix + 204) pp. Very Near Fine, with moderate sunning at top of rear cover (see scans). No other salient flaws. A handsome first edition example of the richly-credentialed John Drury's presentation and examination of religious writings by Anthony Collins, Thomas Sherlock, Robert Lowth, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Benjamin Jowett, and Matthew Arnold. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. LT26

New York: Metro Books / Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. and Alexian Limited, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New; pristine. See scans and description. First Edition Thus, and First Printing, of the graphics-rich Alexian Limited 2013 edition. New York: Metro Books / Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. and Alexian Limited, 2013. First Edition Thus and First Printing. Tall octavo, illustrated jacket, illustrated semi-gloss boards, black endpapers, 192 pp. New; pristine. See scans. A sumptuously illustrated presentation of DeSalvo's scholarly, rich and readable 2009 text on the still-mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls, in first/first form as such, and top condition. See scans. For the collector. LT20

Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New, pristine First Edition and First Printing. See scans and description. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001. 'Desecration - Antichrist Takes the Throne', by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Octavo, illustrated jacket, black boards with title blind stamped on the front cover, metallic purple imprinting on spine, black endpapers, xiii + 407 pp. + 2 pp. About the Authors + 4 pp. ads. New, pristine, immaculate, flawless specimen. See scans. Ninth in the series of fundamentalist/evangelical Christian fantasy adventures by LaHaye and Jenkins, in general written about those who were left behind at the Rapture, and dealing with the themes of the Rapture, the end of days, the antichrist, etc. For the collector of that series, a pristine example of the First / First of this title. See all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a… Read More

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979. First Edition. Encounter with the Text: Form and History in the Hebrew Bible, edited by Martin J. Buss. With included ephemera (see below). Octavo, orange-red printed wraps, 231 pp. (vii + 224) . Very Near Fine, with two micro-touches of edge wear and almost indiscernible spine sunning. Otherwise flawless. See scans. Sharp, bright and tight first edition example, with no interior writing, of this collection of scholarly Old Testament expertise. Include is the original sales slip and receipt, in the name of noted topical luminary the late John D.W. Watts of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (see scan of his obituary). These items were found inside this example, and this title (with another) is on the sales slip, hence it was probably his copy, though it is not signed by him. Ships in a new,… Read More

New York: J. Tilden & Co., 1838. Period Full Calf. About Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. About Very Good. See all scans, and description. New York: J. Tilden and Co, New York) 1838. 12mo, 450 pp. plus fold-out timeline at rear. Calf with gilt spine imprint. Scuffing to leather, spine rubbed, front endpaper and one other page torn each with about 1/3 lacking, very light foxing throughout. About very Good. 1838 printing of the Reverend John Marsh's fascinating and thoroughly researched history of Judaism, full title: An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; With an Appendix, Giving a condensed History of the Jews. Packed with information and, toward the front, substantial engraved illustrations. At end, a fold-out timeline of Jewish history commencing with Creation in 4004 BC. Stoutly bound, and with no sign of hinge failure, this copy will still be ready to read on its 200th birthday. L17n Read More

No Place: No Publisher, 1915. Presumed First Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ksado, Luis. No date (circa 1910-1915), No Location [prob. Galicia, Spain]; property of the author [es propriedad del autor / reservados todos los derechos / prohibida la reproducion de texto y fotografias] circa early twentieth century. Quarto, original wraps in [presumably later]quarter leather hard binding. Introduction by Salvador Cabeza de Leon + 56 pp. black and white photographs on rectos with descriptions on versos. Leather moderately scuffed as shown in scans; thatl later hardcover binding is VG+. Original parchment wrappers toned (scans), have a few chips, have been professionally repaired. Contents - photographs and text - are age-toned but undamaged. Overall, Very Good. A strange a beautiful collection of vintage photographs by Luis Ksado - the namesake of a recently created European photography award, won in 1999 by Peter Marlow - of religious artifacts,… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. Children of the Bible Series. First Edition, with the scarce dust jacket. Illustrated copiously. 12mo, light brown dust jacket with black design and imprinting, ornately gilt-imprinted cream boards with pastedown illustration as well; floral endpaper illustrations; 42 pp. Please see scans. The book, technically Very Good Plus, has the curb appeal of Near Fine, with just endpaper foxing shadow the quaint little old sticker of a jeweler in Roxbury, NY who once owned it, and a yet earlier owner's name artfully inked, in 1910, within the "This Book Belongs To" box printed by Altemus as part of the front endpaper illustration. The rare jacket has darkened with age, shows small-scale chipping along the top edge and small pieces of loss at its spine, but is essentially complete, including flaps. A genuinely striking book,… Read More

Philadelphia: Bradley & Co., 1870. First Edition Thus . Full-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Various Engravings. (Fleetwood's) The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: and The Lives And Sufferings of His Holy Apostles and Evangelists. (1870). With An Introduction To The American Edition To Which is Added, The Lives and Labors Of Eminent Christians and Martyrs From The Crucifixion To The Reformation and A History Of The Jews, From the Earliest Ages To The Present Time. A New And Improved Edition, With Notes By Rev. J. Newton Brown, D.D.. Philadelphia: Bradley & Co., 1870. First Edition Thus of the 1813 British original, with substantial additions as noted in the lengthy title. Thick octavo, deep brown full morocco boards, impressed channeling, gilt titling and illumination on covers and spine, All Edges Gilt, brown endpapers, 750 pp. Replete with engravings by various artisans. A strong Very Good: moderate scuffing (see all scans), notable… Read More

Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, 1955. Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, undated but probably circa 1955. A perpetual membership album, small quarto size, maroon leather-textured cloth boards with gilt borders and gilt cover device (see scans); contents are the perpetual membership certificate, signed by Father Camillus (who also entered the conferee's name) on one side, and a very artful full color print of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, with halos, praying above lilies on the other side. As New condition; immaculate. See scans. Original enclosing paper envelope is included; that envelope itself is in Very Good condition, not as new. L-eph

Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, 1955. Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, undated but probably circa 1955. A perpetual membership album, small quarto size, cream leather-textured cloth boards with gilt borders and gilt cover device (see scans); contents are the perpetual membership certificate, signed by Father Camillus (who also entered the conferee's name) on one side, and a very artful full color & gilt print of Mary, hands folded, among roses, mountains and stars, with the words "Je Suis L'immaculee Conception" above her head on the other side. As New condition; immaculate. See scans. Original enclosing paper envelope is included; that envelope itself is in Very Good condition, not as new. L-eph

Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, 1955. Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Syracuse, NY: Franciscan Friars, undated but probably circa 1955. A perpetual membership album, small quarto size, maroon leather-textured cloth boards with gilt borders and gilt cover device (see scans); contents are the perpetual membership certificate, signed by Father Camillus (who also entered the conferee's name) on one side, and a very artful full color portrait print of Jesus on the other side. As New condition; immaculate. See scans. Original enclosing paper envelope is included; that envelope itself is in Very Good condition, not as new. L-eph

New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. Soft cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine; flawless but for slight age toning at page edges. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. The Grand Miracle, by C.S. Lewis. 12mo, perfect-bound wraps, 167 pp. + 2 pp. Fine; faint edge toning at page edges, else As New. See scans. Essays from the author's "God in the Deck". L25

Nashville, TN: Nelson Books / Thomas Nelson Publishers (HarperCollins), 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good book in Fine jacket, with the Supplemental CD. See scans and description. Nashville, TN: Nelson Books / Thomas Nelson Publishers (HarperCollins), 2005. First Printing. The semi-evangelical, religious-medical treatise by Jordan Rubin, author of The Maker's Diet, with assistance from David Remedios, M.D. Octavo, jacket, charcoal boards with gilt spine imprinting, xxxvi + 370 pp. + ads. A Very Good book - which would be Near Fine, but for a modest 5% spine lean, which precludes the Near Fine appellation - in a Fine, flawless jacket. Scarce supplemental CD is Fine and complete as well, though it was at one time opened. See all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L8n