First Edition. The Nobel Peace Prize winner offers ideas of peace and hope. 134 pages. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed on a publisher's bookplate mounted on the front free endpaper. With ephemera from an event.....
Price: $150
First American edition (and the fifth overall). A collectible copy from America's first Renaissance Man. The Society of Friends commissioned 4000 copies of this pamphlet, and they hired Benjamin Franklin's printing company to do the work, seventeen years before Franklin would edit and then sign the Declaration of Independence. In.....
Price: $2,250
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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.....
Price: $200
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First Edition. The first Hebrew edition of Leon's monograph on the temple of Solomon (it was first published in Middelburg, the Netherlands, in 1642). Leon (1603–1675) was a Spanish-Portuguese rabbi who built a model of the Temple of Solomon that was exhibited in many cities in Europe. This book is.....
Price: $1,250
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.....
Price: $500
A small chapbook about formerly enslaved Africans in Jamaica converting to Christianity. First published in 1840 by Wright and Albright. The dating of this version is from OCLC, which is speculative based on dates in a bound volume of tracts. 8 pages plus wrappers, with half-page illustrations on the cover.....
Price: $75
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].....
Price: $300
113 pages, but printed only on the odd pages. 9-1/2 by 7 inches (oblong). An edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An exploration of the influence of Catalán culture in Matanzas, Cuba, and the connection between the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia and the Ermita de Monserrate in the hills.....
Price: $200
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.....
Price: $250
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.....
Price: $350
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.....
Price: $75
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.....
Price: $3,750
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.....
Price: $400
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.....
Price: $250
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.....
Price: $350
First Edition. "It is our desire to promote the settlement of these Indians upon farms, and secure their support from the labor of their own hands," wrote the members of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. The group had been formed under President Ulysses S. Grant, who.....
Price: $85
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.....
Price: $4,500
A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were the lost tribe of Israel. The Ratana church advocated.....
Price: $750
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.....
Price: $500
First Edition. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of the atonement by.....
Price: $75
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.....
Price: $30
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.....
Price: $15
