First Edition. A book promoting Christianity intended to counter what the author perceived as growing anti-Christian prejudice among the Chinese people. The writer was a minister at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco. 10, 2, 204 pages. Text in Chinese, with a preface and the table of contents.....

First Edition. One of Crumb's smallest book limitations, one of thirty copies numbered using Roman numerals, a limitation not recorded on the colophon or in any reference I could locate. Presumably these thirty copies were set aside for the author and perhaps the publisher. Instead of using Arabic numerals on.....

An attractive pocket Greek New Testament with a painted vellum binding and the original leather slipcase. The covers have a decorative border and a central design tooled in gilt and handpainted. The front cover depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus; the back cover's central image is of the Virgin Mary with.....

A biography of Jesus for young readers published in Spanish in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1920s. The author was born in Mexico but lived in the United States off and on for a number of years. He was a politician and a writer who started a magazine in San.....

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].....

First Edition. "A biography of Major Kobayashi Masasuke, an early Issei pioneer who arrived in America in 1902 and who established Japanese units of the Salvation Army beginning in 1919. Includes reprints of his sermons and lectures and reminiscences of his friends and associates."—A Buried Past, 837. Masasuka "landed in the.....

A large photograph of the opening ceremony of the Nichiren-shu Buddhist temple in 1932, in Portland. According to the website of the temple, "In November of 1924, Rev. Ryushin Okihara, resident minister of the Nichiren Buddhist Church in Seattle, conducted the first organized Nichiren Shu service in Portland, Oregon. The service.....

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.....

Later printing. Short, insprirational stories, including one on fireworks. Illustrated with a handcolored frontispiece. 94 pages plus an ad leaf. 3-1/2 by 5 inches. A later printing, with ten subsequent volumes in the series listed in the ads at back. The first volume seems to have come out in the.....