DUST OF DESTINY
Chicago: Moody Press, 1949. Paperback. 96 pp; pocket-sized, in full-collor illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers; browning to pages edges throughout.
Chicago: Moody Press, 1949. Paperback. 96 pp; pocket-sized, in full-collor illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers; browning to pages edges throughout.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. 319 pp; this stidy challenges a popularly held belief that Christianity came into the world as an essentially iconophobic form of religiousity, one that was opposed on principle to the use of visual images in religious contexts; profusely illustrated with b &.....
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. Hardcover. 204 pp; superb collection of modern prayers from around the world set against the country and culture which gave them birth; illustrated with line drawings; dj has been price-clipped; has dedication to former owner; dj has small chips and creasing to both.....
Northbrook, IL: The Jewish Theologial Society of Illinois, 1989. Second edition. Paperback. 311 pp; a translation guide designed for use with only those 19th-century Polish-language civil registration documents which follow the Napoleonic format; book is encased in hard plastic covers with the Quick Reference Guide in front pocket; in illustrated.....
Stuttgart, Deutschland: B. G. Teubner, 1999. Hardcover. 196 pp; title translates as LATE ANTIQUE GOLD AMULETT WITH CHRISTIAN EXORCISM; 6 b & w plates, includes fold-out chart in rear pocket which is New condition; published without a dj in grey cloth boards with red stamping, (TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN GERMAN).....
London: R. E. Thomas & Co., 1904. Paperback. 64 pp; pamphlet; detailed guide to St. Paul's Cathedral in London; slight browning to pages; minor wear to covers.
Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984. Hardcover. 112 pp; seminal treatment of the teachings of the church fathers on the military question i.e. the effect of early Christian writings on the issue of "holy war", to what extent early Christians participated in the military and what judgements the church made on.....
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1956. Second Edition. Paperback. 63 pp; Dear Abby type of advice with Christian overtones; in color illustrated wraps.
Hannibal, MO: Hannibal Books, 1991. Paperback. 223 pp; for all who long for peace in land where Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born; the 1991 revised and updated edition of work originally published in 1978; in color illustrated wraps; has remains of price sticker on bottom right corner of rear.....
Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1983. Paperback. 318 pp; a "how-to" book for getting published in the Christian marketplace; in full-color photo wraps; some wear and rubbing to covers.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hardcover. 220 pp; decisive introduction to Muslim world.
Mendota, IL: The Hope Publishing Company, 1909. Paperback. 81 pp; overview of the Old Testament; in illustrated wraps; covers browned and slightly worn.
Boston: Grand Encampment of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 1870. Half-Leather. 460 pp; 2 volumes in one; summations of the assemblies; 4 line drawings; including etching as frontispiece on 1871 volume; marbled end papers; some rubbing to corners and beginning of splitting on spine; hinges fine, binding tight.
NY: Paulist Press, 1986. Paperback. 170 pp; an experimental approach to the Bible and personal transformation; in printed wraps; VG+/.
Shippensburg, PA: Treasure House, 1994. Paperback. 219 pp; how events in Israel reflect the fullment of God's plan-the coming of Jesus; inscribed by the author to previous owner; in full-color photo wraps.
Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994. Hardcover. 255 pp; the third book in a series of monographs and facsimilies devoted to major manuscripts in the collection of the Getty Museum. All the pages miniatures and historiated initials are reproduced in color and to actual size, as are a......
Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 1984. Paperback. 183 pp; Transactions of The American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Knowledge Volume 74, Part 5, 1984; in printed wraps.
London: Joseph Masters, 1848. Hardcover. 118 pp; plus 36 pp of publisher's advertisements; numerous line drawings; original brown cloth boards; with gilt stamping on front board; which is still clean, sharp and unmarked; binding tight, hinges completely intact; interior pp all clean and free of marks; moderate foxing to page.....
Boston, MA: J. D. O'Connor, 1906. Hardcover. 164 pp; several b & w photos; purple boards are slightly worn; gilt lettering; spine faded; small edge tear to top center of title page.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. Hardcover. 650 pp; comprehensive history of the three first Crusades and with the history of the kingdom of Jerusalem up to the time of its conquest by Saladin; lacks dj.
Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1989. Hardcover. 135 pp; first study in more that seventy years to consider the early monasteries of Cornwall emphasizing identification of sites and tracing their survival to later periods; illustrated with 11 line drawing maps.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Hardcover. 261 pp; boards faded and sunned; lacks dj.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Hardcover. 422 pp; scholarly study of the early medieval papacy that has been described as "the Byzantine captivity of the papacy". The author questions the previously held view that the major theme is the progressive and systematic elaboration of an idea of papal monarchy.....
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. 88 pp; examines the evidence of the Christian papyri discovered in Egypt to see what they cast on the problems and how far they support statements in our ancient authorities or the theories of modern scholars. Among matters discussed are the influence of.....
Chicago: Geo. F. Rosche & Co., 1909. Hardcover. 149 gospel hymn selections; edge tear to bottom right corner of first hymn; has name of previous owner; hinges fine; binding tight; slight rubbing and small stin to front board.