Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1941. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xii, 144pp. Very good/very good. Minor dust jacket wear; two pages bear ink underlining. Second printing, tight and clean. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown lettering. xxvii, 458pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear; offsetting to pp. 258-59 from long-ago newsprint contact; a few reader's notes neatly penned on rear flyleaf. Later (5th) printing of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition of this study..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, [2006]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 354pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition, boldly signed and inscribed by the noted water and soil scientist (born 1931) in black fineline on..... More
Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. xii, 160pp. Illustrations. Errata slip. Very good. First edition, tight and attractive. No. 7 in the "Charles Redd Monographs in Western History" series. More
N.p. Michigan State University, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering. (3pp), iv, 253pp -- all rectos only. Near fine. Sole edition of this Ph.D. dissertation, likely produced in a miniscule quantity of fewer than a handful of copies. Hoffman seeks to show “that the fiction of Peter De..... More
Bountiful: Horizon Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon leatherette, mylar cover. xii, 240pp. Illustrations. Fine. Autographed by Holbrook. First edition. Unusual, idiosyncratic memoir by this noted Mormon, signed and dated 1977 on the front flyleaf. More
Chicago: The Centenary Fund of the Diocese of Chicago, Inc., 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xii, 243pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tipped to copyright page is a 1945 newspaper obituary for Hopkins. A tight and nice first edition of this chronicle of four decades..... More
New York: The Abingdon Press, [1939]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blind-embossed green ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. 176pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Pictorial price-clipped dust jacket quite edgeworn and with sunned spine, but complete and overall appealing. A tight and quite attractive first edition. Front pastedown bears 1939 ownership signature..... More
Peoria, IL: Lester O. Schriver, 1941. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 36pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Minor soiling to wrappers. Tight, handsome first edition. More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 263pp. Fine/fine. Superb, tight and pristine first edition. More
Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, mylar cover. xvi, 431pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, maps, charts. Very good. First edition of this well-rounded centennial history of the state. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. Hardcover. Edited by William Callaghan, Leigh Cauman, Carl Hempel, et al. Introduction by Mary Mothersill. Small 4to. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. xxxix, 322pp. Near fine/very good. First edition, tight and handsome. More
Nashville: Townsend Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xix, 130pp. Several illustrations. Near fine/very good. Autographed by Jackson. First edition. Reverend Jackson, the black Baptist from Chicago -- no relation to Jesse! -- was a well-known pastor, writer and long-time president of the National Baptist Convention, the largest..... More
New York: Eaton & Mains, [1909]. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff grey wrappers with burnished gilt raised lettering and bas relief medallion. 35pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Very faintest of edgewear, with slight age toning to preliminary leaves; nonauthorial 1909 gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872-74. Hardcover. 6-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf and maroon marbled paper over boards, gilt spines. xx, 394pp; xv, pp. 395-818; xlvii, 461pp; lxxv, 344pp; xvi, 398pp; xv, 462pp. All edges marbled. Sepia-tone frontispieces, numerous line drawings and full-page sepia-tone plates, marbled endpapers. Overall very good..... More
San Diego: Blue Dove Press, 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xiii, 331pp. Near fine. First edition, tight and nice -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on the half-title page: "Blessings on your / path! / [squiggly smily face] / Sharon Janis." More
New York: The Abingdon Press, [1931]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Purple cloth with gilt lettering and medallion. 116pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Spine lightly sunned. A tight and nice first edition of this focused study. Intriguing nonauthorial boldly pencilled gift inscription on front flyleaf notes "[illegible] / from / Carl and Clara..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1948]. Hardcover. Introduction by William H. Townsend. 8vo. Green cloth. xviii, 203pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine lettering quite rubbed -- else attractive and internally near fine. Tight, nice first edition. More
Americus, GA: Koinonia Farm, 1964. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff orange wrappers. 28pp. Fine. Intriguing oddball translation into modern idiomatic American English by this religious organization. In this "Koinonia 'Cotton Patch' Version," as they call it, "Paul is no longer a tent-making rabbi but a cotton-picking preacher; not a circumcised Jew but..... More
New York: The Regina Press, [1951]. Hardcover. 24mo. Full blind-embossed black leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 457pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Front flyleaf an expert archival replacement. Tight, quite handsome first edition of this missal. Surprisingly uncommon. More
New York: Dover Publications, [1957]. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jackets. xviii, 1768pp. Very good/very good. Jackets lightly edgeworn; ownership signature on front flyleaf of each volume. Tight, handsome full set -- the first of this edition, being a reprint of the 1907 second revised..... More
St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1902. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth. 100pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, handsome first edition of this life of Martin Luther. More
Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe, 2007. Hardcover. 4to. Black glazed pictorial paper over boards. 376pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Fine. First edition of this hefty centennial history covering the 1908-2008 period, tight and pristine. More
Chicago: J.S. Hyland & Company, 1909. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with decorative gilt. 482pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, patterned endpapers. Very good. Discreet ex-seminary library, the ONLY markings being a white number on the spine and a small circular inkstamp on the dedication page and the last text page. First edition..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., n.y. Hardcover. 24mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 285pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and age toned. Tight and attractive cute-as-a-button little edition in the invariably-absent dust jacket, "Containing" (to cite front jacket panel) "Admonitions, Useful for a Spiritual Life..... More