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

London: Printed by S. Roycroft, for W. Bentley, 1693. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. 1 leaf advertisement and imprimatur + title + 18 leaves (preface and contents) + 312 numbered pages. Small ink inscription and library stamp of Bibliotheca Pusieana, Oxon. to title. Two small wormholes at extreme lower margin of first 60 pages. Occasional scattered light foxing or staining, otherwise generally very clean. Bound in full brown calf with five raised bands to spine. Rebacked preserving original boards which have a little scuffing and rounding with slight loss, and endpapers renewed. ESTCR8086. Pusey House is a center of Anglo-Catholic worship and Study at the University of Oxford, named after the prominent Tractarian Edward Bouverie Pusey. The Oxford (or Tractarian) Movement was a movement of High Church Anglicans, eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, the members of which were often associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the recovery of… Read More

Chicago: Van Kampen Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches. 44 pages with numerous photographs. Pages bright and clean and free of marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's marbled purple paper over heavy cardstock. Covers lightly worn, mostly to spine and edges. An interesting combination biography and autobiography of Hwarowa Stephen Sitole, an indigenous minister/missionary in South Africa during apartheid, written on occasion of Mr. Sitole's visit to Moody Bible Institute and fundraising appearances in the US.

New York: The Century Co., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches. xii + 543 pages. A few pages with pencil notes. Otherwise pages clean and free from marking soiling or staining. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to covers. A very good clean copy.

Tridenti [Trent]: Sumpitbus Societatis. Cum Superiorum Permissu, 1745. Editio novissima reformata. 1/2 Vellum. Near Fine. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. 1 ffep + xxvii + 712 numbered pages + 1 rfep. Scattered foxing and age toning. Old library seal in margin at page 27. All page edges speckled. Bound in 1/2 vellum with marbled paper over boards and vellum reinforced corners with slight wear to covers and edges. A nice copy of the proceedings of the Council of Trent and the Index of Forbidden Books with all the expected Protestant listings.

London: n.p., 1648 [but 1649]. First edition, early issue. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 4 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches. 2 ffep + [8] + 1 folding plate + 269 + [1] pages + 1 rfep. Marbled endpapers. Bibliographic notes on ffep (noting Wing E271, Madan 2, Almack 3 with repayed not Repaied). Close to Almack 1, but title with one oblong block (unique to Almack 4-6) and "mali" for "mala." Margins of title page lightly soiled, pages otherwise clean. Old repair to back of plate. Bound in full 18th Century calf with some light scuffing, mostly to edges, sympathetically rebacked with original spine relaid. Spine with extensive blindstamped decoration. Boards with double rolled borders and diamond decorations. ESTCR40157 A very nice copy of an early and unrecorded imprint of this important work regarding the martyrdom of King Charles I with a colorful history and a bewildering bibliography.

Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson Company, 1924. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. 212 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Dated from copyright. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt title and author to cover. Cover very lightly worn. A very good copy of this accessible introduction to music theory, including notation, rhythm, melody, harmony, polyphony, form, design, acoustics and expression.

n.p.: n.p., c. 1890. Hardcover. Near Fine. 7 x 8 3/4 inches. 180 pages in black ink with red underlining in two (?) neat contemporary hands. Bound in 3/4 cloth with marbled boards. Covers lightly worn. An manuscript analyzing various creeds (Apostles', Athanasian, Nicene, etc.), Lutheran catechisms and other Lutheran historical documents. An interesting snapshot of a careful review by a scholar or learned lay person of Lutheran doctrine and liturgy during the late 19th Century.

Waverly, Iowa: Wartburg Publishing House, 1893. Original Cloth. Very Good. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 3. band in Wartburg Bibliothek. 76 + [2] pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth with black pictorial cover with silver lettering. Very light wear to corners and head and tail of spine. A very nice example of early American German printing in a nice period binding.

Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 inches. viii + 760 pages. Lithographed frontispiece. Pages uniformly lightly toned, but otherwise clean. Bound in black cloth over black leather spine and corners. Corners of front cover with gilt decoration. Spine lacking. Both boards firmly attached. A very good copy. Scarce.

Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, [c. 1863]. Original Cloth. Near Fine. 4 1/4 x 6 inches. 479 pages. Blue stylized floral(?) endpapers. Gift inscription in contemporary hand. Else clean and fine. All page edges stained blue. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine and floral pattern to front cover. Very light wear to edges of boards. Dust jacket present. Jacket soiled along spine and chipped. Slipcase also present. Bookseller's ticket of "Ferd. Richter Augsburg" inside front cover. A collection of religious poetry in a well executed and unusually well preserved Arts and Crafts binding.

Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. 829 + [3] pages. Pages lightly toned, but otherwise clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in black cloth. Covers lightly worn. Spine lacking, but covers firmly attached. A good reading copy of this resource.

Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. viii +836 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling, and staining. Bound in three quarters black cloth with gray boards. Hinges split in places, though boards still firmly attached. Otherwise light wear to covers. A very good clean copy.

Stuttgart: E. Greiner's Verlag, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches. viii + 918 + [1] pages. Pages uniformly lightly toned. Otherwise pages clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in common cloth which is lightly soiled and worn. An interesting home repair. A good clean copy with an interesting and carefully performed home repair.

Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1890. Original Cloth. Very Good. 6 x 9 inches. 329 + [6] pages. Pages uniformly lightly toned. Otherwise pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with old cloth spine replacement. Spine lightly soiled and worn. A very good clean copy.

Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. viii + 428 pages. A couple pages with pencil notes. Otherwise, pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary red cloth with elaborate decoration to front board and spine in black and gilt. Covers very lightly worn and spine lightly sunbleached. A very nicely bound copy.

Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 476 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary red cloth with elaborate decoration to front board and spine in black and gilt. Covers very lightly worn and spine lightly sunbleached. A very nicely bound copy.

Detroit, MN: The Record Steam Print, 1894. Wraps. Very Good +. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 16 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in original light gray wraps which are lightly soiled. One corner slightly bent and chipped. pencil note on front cover. A very good copy of this scarce pamphlet on the Pullman strike, a seminal labor movement and the genesis of Labor Day, given contemporaneously with the strike.

New York: Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1944. Second edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 3 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches. 141 pages. Pages bright and clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. Bound in dark blue cloth which is lightly worn at edges. Gilt cross to front cover and gilt title to front cover and spine. A very nice Anglo-Catholic daily and eucharistic devotional.

Leipzig: Dörffling und Franke, 1899. Original Cloth. Very Good. 4 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches. 207 + [9] pages. Scattered contemporaneous notes, else clean. Bound in original red cloth with black lettering and decoration. Covers very lightly rubbed. A nice annotated copy.

Philadelphia: William Marshall & Co., 1836. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches. 2 ffep + 271 pages + 4 rfep. Scattered light foxing. Bound in full polished brown calf with gilt decoration to edges of boards which are now worn. Spine with six gilt double bands and red morocco spine label reading "Griswold's Prayers. A nice copy of this book intended to supplement the American BCP. Notable for including an early prayer for temperance meetings.