Search Results: Titles starting with S from Chilton Books

London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1953.. 1st ed. "This Handbook is intended to help the younger members of the Church at home to take their part in the work of the Church overseas." Pp. 96, frontis map. Illustrated boards. G+.

London:SPCK, 1950.. When the bodily powers are weak prayer is not very easym abd yet the time of enforced quiet ought to be an opportunity for an advance in the devotional life....This little book is called the S.Raphael Prayer Bok, as having been produced by the Guild of S.Raphael, a guild of Communicants within the Anglucan Communion which is helping to revive that ministry of healng whichin earlier days was one of the clear functions of the Church. Provision is therefore made in the book for preparing to receive both the Sacrament of Holy Unction and the Laying-on-of-hands, for healing in the Name and power of our Lord..." Pp.43, pages toned. Green printed paper covers. Scarce.G+.

London: SPCK, nd. (c.1917).. Boys adventure stories of a Boy Scout troop. 19cms x 12cms. Pp.128, tinted frontispiece, presentation plate to front free endpaper. Olive green cloth with the frontispiece illustration (a little rubbed) pasted to front board, edge wear and bumps to corner tips. Good.

[ Sudbury, Suffolk :1970 ]. Original booklet. 21.3cm x 16cm. pp.80. Grey card covers with black and red titles. Edges rubbed and creased, with a few chips and rusted staples. Clean text throughout, plus illustrations of work by the pupils. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.. 1st Penguin edition. "In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success" (Time). Pp.189, slight toning to pages. Paperback, slightly toned. G+.

London and Bath: The Mendip Press, 1939.. pp.52. Owners signature to title. Full-page b/w photo of author before introduction. These sermons were first published during the crisis in the winter of 1938-1939 in the "Bath and Wilts Chronicle and Herald". G+

London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1998.. The book brims with Henri Nouwen's life and spirit and contains a quiet hidden depth and beauty...He comments on the Scriptures in conjunction with social issues, current events, a book, or an artwork, and makes connections between his insights and his life experience." Pp.xii/226. Pbk. VG.

New York: Alba House,1976.. This little book of reflections is aimed at helping the "Ash Wednesday convert" to keep in focus the splendid days of Lent: a time for turning from sin, a time for pardoning, a time for turning to God, a time for being spiritually reborn." Pp.vi/74. Paperback. VG.

London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1914.. 1st ed. Liverpool Diocesan Board of Divinity Publications, No. X. Three Lectures delivered in Liverpool. Pp. 61. Spotting to pages. P/b. Card covers. G.

London: Rivingtons, 1867.. 1st edition. "Sacraments and sacramental ordinances are the means by which Divine power counteracts the operation of original and actual sin..." Pp.x/310/32(ads for books), owner's names to title page. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine dulled, rubbing to top and tail of spine. VG.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983.. 1st edition. A study in Liturgical Mentality. "Explaining the central role of the sacraments and liturgy affirmed by the nineteenth-century Oxford Movement, he goes on to consider how we can base our progress on many of the Movement's ideas, and develop them more fully." Pp.viii/115, slight toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

New York: Herder & Herder, 1967.. 1st ed. "The present book is a commentary upon Chapters I, II, and III of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and upon the executory Instruction issued a year after the Constitution." Pp. 256, ex college library, scuffing to fep. Black cloth. G+.

London:SCM,1928.. 1st ed. Pp.159/1(ad), occasional spotting. G+.

London: Collins Books, 1987.. 1st ed. "Here, Lord Coggan, himself a distinguished preacher, re-establishes the place of the Word in worship; he shows how it can reach out to enrich not only our liturgy but our whole lives." Pp.170, slight toning to pages. P/b. G+.

London: Joseph Masters, 1867.. Posthumously published edition. 3 volumes bound together(First series). Pp.84/88/91/vi, 42(ads), b/w frontispiece, owners ink stamp (W.Eyre) to front free endpaper, occasional spotting throughout. Blue blind-stamped decorated boards, gilt title to spine. G+. **Rev. Edward Monro (1815-66). Curate of Harrow-on-Weald and Vicar of St John's, Leeds; author of various religious publications. 1852 He was Select Preacher to the University of Oxford. He was noted for his ability for preaching and for his work among the poor of his parishes.(Wiki).

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1959.. Rep. An anthology, with full commentary, illustrating the development from the formulas and invocations of primitive magic to the hymns and revelations of the 20th century. Pp. 345/7(ads). Toning to pages. P/b. G.

London: Jarrolds, 1931.. 2nd impression. Contents: Book One: Far Away and Long Ago. I.Far Away and Long Ago; II.Primitive Man in Love and Faith; III.In the Foundry of the Gods. The Story of the Generative Divinities; IV.The Spirit of Love in God and Man. The Erotic Worship of the Generative Divinities; V.Love's Hidden Ways.. Book Two: In the Temple of the Gods..The Worship of the Generative Divinities. I.A Day with Baal; II.A Night with Aphrodite; III.At a Dionysian Mystery; IV.Twilight with Moloch; V.The Dance of the Saktas; Book Three: In the House of the Lord. The Erotic Motive in the Monotheistic Religions of To-Day. I.Love in the Synagogue; II.Romance in the Church; III.Marriage in the Mosque; IV.Longing in the Dark. {The erotic motive in the Christian religion among the Negroes..}. Book Four. The Spirit of Revolt in Religion. The Sexual Motive in Sectarianism. I.Rebels in the Faith; II.Love the Force of Rebellion; III.The Revolt Against Religion; IV.The Revolt Against God; V.The Revolt… Read More

Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1843.. Second edition. 17cms x 11cms x 3cms. Pp.465/3(ads for other publications), coloured map, a few light spots, cracking to inner hinges with webbing showing at inner rear hinge but holding firm. Red blind-stamped decorated cloth, gilt title to spine, sunning to spine, edges rubbed. G+.

London: SPCK, 1971.. 2nd imp. "Articles by bishops, priests and lay people to ventilate the question..what clegymen are, and are for." Pp.10/110, name to fep. printed name to title,marks to lower margins of pp.39 and 42. P/b. G+.

London: W.Wells Gardner, 1876.. Religious poetry. All edges red. Pp.144, foxing to preliminaries and index, crossed out name + a date to fep. Brown decorated cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly cocked. G+.