Search Results: Authors starting with A from St. Wulfstans Books

London: Printed by M. Roberts for D. Brown, 1704. Fourth edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 4 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches. [12] + 339 + [3] + 45 + [1] pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. A few marginal losses without affecting text. This copy with no engravings. Bound in full contemporary calf with old rebacking and original spine relaid, coated with PVAR. Spine chipped and corners rounded. Spine with five (false) raised bands with gilt rules. Red morocco spine label with title in gilt. lettering. A very good clean reading copy of this important translation of this classic devotional.

Regensburg: Stahl's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches. 483 + 38 + [8]. A few pages loose and chipped at margins. Uniformly lightly tones, but otherwise pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in red cloth with black lettering and decoration. Spine lacking. Covers firmly attached. Else, covers lightly worn and soiled. A very interesting illustrated German cookbook.

n.p.: n.p., 1978. First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good +. 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches. 36 page saddle-stitched pamphlet. Pages clean. Bound in original green paper which is lightly sunned. A scarce privately printed work which contains many rare images related to the Benedictine missions in the Arkansas River Valley.

Barmen: Verlag der Wuppertaler Traktatgesellschaft , [1873]. Original Cloth. Near Fine. 3 1/2 x 5/ 1/8 inches. Four works bound together, each with separate title page and pagination: 64 + 128 + 136 + 126 pages. Pages lightly toned, else clean and free from marking soiling or staining. Gilt floral decorated endpapers. Bound in contemporary green cloth with silver rose motif border and bookbinder's imprint of "E. Biermann Buchbinderei Barmen." Light rubbing to extremities. A spectacularly well compiled, well bound, and well preserved collection of late 19th Century German (Protestant) religious literature.

1850. Loose_leaf. Near Fine. 3 x 3 3/4 inches. Newspaper clipping of the religious poem/hymn lyric written for the Model American Courier. Edges neatly clipped.

[c. 1900]. Loose_leaf. Good. 2 11/16 x 4 1/2 inches. Lightly soiled and worn and clipped at top. Small tear on right and small loss at bottom. Previously glued on reverse to album page, with remnants to verso. A scarce advertisement for the Tennessee manufacturer.

[c. 1900]. Loose_leaf. Good. 2 3/4 x 4 inches. Lightly soiled and worn. Previously glued on reverse to album page, with remnants to verso. A good Victorian advertisement card for the Scottish thread manufacturer with American operations based in Newark, New Jersey. The image is of a robin.

Chicago: Periodical Sales Club, 1934. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Lightly toned. Addressed and completed with typewriter. Stamp cancelled.

St. Louis: Louis Lange, [c. 1900]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Lower margin clipped. Lightly toned. Die Abendschule was a German language biweekly family journal published first in Buffalo and then in St. Louis between 1854 and 1940.

Columbus, OH: The Wartburg Press, 1951. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 2 1/4 x 3 5/8 inches. Lightly toned. Front: Calendar for 1952. Rear: Printed petition by Wilson C. Egbert. A nice advertising calendar.

n.p.: n.p., [c. 1920]. Loose_leaf. Very Good +. 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: Image of Madonna and child with Order Number (26-GC-P). Rear: Blank. A nice early Christmas card sample.

n.p.: n.p., [c. 1950]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 6 inches. Evidence of old horizontal fold. Lightly age toned. A nice advertising list.

[c. 1900]. Loose_leaf. Good. 2 11/16 x 4 1/2 inches. Lightly soiled and worn. Previously glued on reverse to album page, with remnants to verso. A scarce advertisement for the Tennessee manufacturer.

Boston: Ritter & Company, [c. 1916]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 x 6 3/4 inches. Vertical crease. A nice piece of bookseller's advertising ephemera.

Indianapolis: Kriebel and Bates, 1953. First edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Front: "Head of Christ" by iconic Protestant Painter Warner E. Sallman, the original of which (1952) is in a private collection. Rear: Ordering information. Neat horizontal fold. By far the most popular of Sallman’s pictures, the Head of Christ has been reproduced more than 500 million times according to its publishers (Kriebel & Bates). Anthony Kriebel and Fred Bates, employees of the Gospel Trumpet Company of Anderson, Ind., arranged to market the image late in 1940. Reproductions subsequently carried their imprimatur and the copyright date of 1941. Chicago Offset Printing Company printed the image in a six-color separation lithographic process that preserved what many admirers consider unique about the picture: its radiant, incandescent glow. During the years of the Second World War, one press at Chicago Offset continuously printed the Head of Christ under the operation of two… Read More

Yankton, SD: The Pioneer Press, [c.1930]. Loose_leaf. Very Good +. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Single leaf printed on one side with unused return envelope. Unobtrusive old folds. The Pioneer Press was noted for its publications related to German Congregationalism during the first half of the 20th Century. A very nice clean copy.

Falls Church, VA: The Falls Church, 1969. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 108 pages. Illustrated. Two library stamps, and small ownership inscription. Otherwise, pages bright and clean and free of marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's red cloth with title and scene looking through the doors of the church to interior on front cover in gilt. Remnants of dust jacket consisting of the front and back covers, but with flaps and spine excised, included. A very good first edition of the colorful history of the famous Episcopal parish near Washington, D.C., of which George Washington was once vestry member.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1848. Leather_bound. Very Good +. 3 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches. BCP: 603 pages. Psalms & Hymns: 254 pages. A few light marginal stains. All page edges brightly gilt. Bound in contemporary dark green (near black) calf with finely tooled cathedral designs to both covers and to spine. Gilt "A.M. Baker" in central oval on front cover and gilt "Prayer" to spine. Edges lightly rubbed. Griffiths 1848/30. A very good copy of the original (1792) American Prayer Book in a stunning and unusual mid-19th Century American binding.

Albany, NY: Printed and Published by E. & E. Hosford, 1824. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 3 3/4 x 6 inches. 24mo. 1 ffep + 360 numbered pages. Printed in two column Roman type. Griffiths 1824/24. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms in Metre; with Hymns, Suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church, and Other Occasions of Public Worship. Albany, NY: Printed and Published by E. & E. Hosford, 1824. 105 numbered pages + 2 rfep. Separate title page for Psalms. Bound in contemporary full tan polished calf with gilt rules on spine. Corners rubbed and worn at spine ends. Scattered light foxing. A very good early American BCP.

Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for I[saiah] Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1794. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. Collates as a-c (in 6s) + A-Ee (in 6s) + Ff (2 leaves). Lacks two leaves and lower 1/3 of another at P2-P4. This variant not recorded in Griffiths. See Griffiths 1794/11 for similar edition with a-b in 4s rather than a-c in 6s. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms in Metre with Hymns, Suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church, and Other Occasions of Public Worship. Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring for I[saiah] Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1793. 244 + [4] pages. Collates as A-U (in 6s) + W (4 leaves). Complete. Light toning and damp stain. 1 [of 2] marbled feps. A few quires slightly extended. Bound in contemporary full red leather with gilt designs to both covers and to spine which is cracked. Covers worn and rubbed. A scarce and unusually well preserved example of the first and only BCP printed for Isaiah Thomas, who Benjamin Franklin praised as "the American… Read More