Second Edition. The author spent some years in the United States as the editor of the San Francisco-based Confucian Digest. She wrote frequently on the relevance of Confucianism to overseas Chinese. Prior to the Second World War, relatively few books by Asian women were published in the US. This book.....

First Edition. A memoir of Cleaver's growing up, the Black Panthers, his time in Algiers, and his conversion to Christianity. Illustrated with halftone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in a dust jacket showing light wear along the top edge. Signed.....

First Edition. An uncommon account of travel to Australasia. The Scottish author was prominent in the early Christadelphian movement and edited The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898. This travelogue, which includes much theological commentary, has been published several times in the 20th century; this original edition is uncommon. [4].....

A Catholic devotional book, published many times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Illustrated with twelve nicely engraved plates (opposite pages 3, 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 85, 92, 105, and 117). One of the tail pieces is a skull and crossbones. Text in Spanish. Small format octavo.....

First Edition. An historical chapter book about the founder of Methodism by May McNeer, illustrated by her husband Lynd Ward. 96 pages. With many full-page color illustrations. First edition (first printing, with an "A" on the copyright page and no indications of later printings). This is a very good copy in.....

First Edition. A substantial and important colonial American book printed on the press of one of the country's founding fathers and its first great polymath (inventor, revolutionary, politician, diplomat, raconteur, writer, and entrepreneur), Benjamin Franklin. If Franklin had been nothing more than a printer, with his shop foreman, David Hall.....

A wonderful letter from one of America's best-selling novelists at the time—his novel, The Winning of Barbara Worth, outsold Jack London's The Call of the Wild*, and in all his books sold millions of copies and were made into many films. This letter, addressed to a police officer, responds to.....

Pergamino (folded broadside). 7 by 34 inches, unfolded. Edition size not noted. [Colección Clásicos]. This pergamino has three sections, the title, illuminated with white and yellow paint; the text of the poem, mimeographed from typescript in the center; and an image of an angel at the bottom. The design is.....

Nearly four dozen early 20th century images of Mexican American neighborhoods centered around Baptist churches and missions. Photographs documenting any aspect of Mexican American life from a century ago are decidedly uncommon. These slides, numbered 1 to 54, lacking ten images scattered throughout the sequence, document Mexican American Baptist churches.....

Second edition, revised and expanded, of this collections of hymns, first published in 1873 as "Temperance songs, etc., in the Maori language." The text of this book is devoted to Maori language songs written to the tunes of the hymnal "Sacred Songs and Solos" as well as popular melodies, including "God.....

First Edition. About 75 pages. Editorial cartoon-style images featuring gas masks drawn by the British-Israeli architect during the first Gulf War, when threats of gas attacks were common in Israel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in illustrated boards (no jacket, as issued?). Inscribed by the artist, "For Abe, keep.....