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"Not everyone is able to understand the mysteries of dogmatics": First English edition of Leo Tolstoy's My Religion
TOLSTOI, Count L. N. [Leo Tolstoy].
My Religion.
London: Walter Scott, 1889.
First English edition of Tolstoy’s fervent attack on the church, the sequel to A Confession in which he outlines his profound spiritual awakening. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. Translated from the French by Huntington Smith. In near fine condition. A superior example, uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124058
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"IF I DIMINISH YOU, I DIMINISH MYSELF": FIRST EDITION OF THE RAINBOW PEOPLE OF GOD; SIGNED BY NOBEL LAUREATE DESMOND TUTU
TUTU, Desmond; Foreword by Nelson Mandela.
The Rainbow People of God.
New York: Doubleday, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author, “God Bless You! Desmond Tutu July ‘95." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelf wear.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 3689
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Finely bound example of Les Fioretti de Saint François d'Assise
ASSISI, Saint Francis of.
Les Fioretti de Saint François d’Assise [The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi].
Paris: Club de Livre, 1966.
Finely bound example of this classic work with full-page color reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages; decorative initials. full antique-style tooled brown leather, metal clasps. With explanatory text and accompanying sample leaves, set loose in leather-backed folder. Both set in folding case. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 110822
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First British edition of Jose Luis Gonzalez-Balado's Heart of Joy; lengthily inscribed by Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix
GONZALEZ-BALADO, Jose Luis. [Mother Teresa] Agnes Mariam de la Croix.
Heart of Joy.
London: Founts Paperbacks, 1988.
First British edition, second impression this collection of Mother Teresa’s thoughts on the transfiguring power of self-giving. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix on the front free endpaper, “Dear Saruleh, you are God’s gift to us and our poor. Remain in His love and share His love with all you come in contact with. May God bless you Sr. M. Agnes, mc 26th Aug. 1989.” Christian nun Mother Agnes is mother superior of the monastery of St James the Mutilated in Syria, a Melkite Greek Catholic monastery in the town of Qara in the Homs diocese. In very good condition. Cover illustration by P.J. Lynch.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115901
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Rare Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Scriptures
CALMET, Antoine Augustin. Translated by Giovanni Domenico Mansi.
Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.
Venetiis: Apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1757.
Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi’s Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet’s dictionary of the Holy Scriptures, perhaps the most famous and meticulous exegetical, historical and geographical dictionary of the Holy Scriptures produced. Folio, 2 volumes bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels, all edges speckled red, elaborately illustrated with full-page woodcut engravings, folding maps, printers device to the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114059
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First Edition of N.T. Wright's Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church; signed by him
WRIGHT, Nicholas Thomas [N.T.].
Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.
New York: HarperOne, 2008.
First edition of the award-winning author’s popular work on the Scriptural emphasis of resurrection as the foremost hope of the Christian community. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by N.T. Wright on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Ilona Wellmann.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115079
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Rare 17th century example of Balduini's Pauline Epistles
BALDUINI, Friderici.
Commentarius In Omnes Epistolas Beati Apostoli Pauli.
Francofurti ad Moenum: Johanne Oleario, 1691.
Rare 17th century example of the Pauline Epistles. Quarto, bound in full period vellum. Engraved headpiece, initials, and tailpiece. From the library of Professor F. A. Schmidt, one of the best known Lutheran scholars in the northwestern United States, with his bookplate to the front pastedown (Curtiss-Wedge, 409). In very good condition with some browning to the text.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 95907
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"Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee": Rare Sanborn & Carter Pocket edition of the holy bible
The Everlasting Gospel and The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and The New; Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.
Portland: Sanborn & Carter, 1843.
Sanborn & Carter pocket edition of the Holy Bible. Duodecimo, original full leather with gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece of the Repose in Egypt, engraved title page. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114401
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First Edition of The Faces of Jesus; Signed by Frederick Buechner
BUECHNER, Frederick.
The Faces of Jesus.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
First edition of this work on the life of Jesus. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photography by Lee Boltin. Design by Ray Ripper.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 67998
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First Edition of Herman Wouk's This is My God; Signed by Him
WOUK, Herman.
This Is My God.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959.
First edition of Wouk’s classic introduction to Judaism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Robert Galster.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 112461
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First Edition of Institutio Ad Doctrinam Christianam Liberaliter Discendam
JOHANN SALOMO SEMLER,.
Institutio Ad Doctrinam Christianam Liberaliter Discendam.
Halae Magdebvrgicae, 1774.
First edition. Octavo, three quarters leather over marbled boards. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 2416
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First Edition of Byzantium; Inscribed by John Julius Norwich on date of Publication
NORWICH, John Julius.
Byzantium: The Apogee.
London: Viking Press, 1991.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Derek with all love from John Julius Publication Day, 14.x.91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 4421
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“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you": The Power of Positive Thinking; Signed by Norman Vincent Peale
VINCENT PEALE, Norman.
The Power of Positive Thinking.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1956.
Early printing of Norman Vincent Peale’s enduring classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Norman Vincent Peale on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the front panel.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119662
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First Edition of Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels; Inscribed by Her
PAGELS, Elaine.
The Gnostic Gospels.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Elaine Pagels on the half title page.Small name on the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 29007
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“FREEDOM IS THE OXYGEN OF THE SOUL”: First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Living With the Bible; Inscribed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Living with the Bible.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978.
First edition of Moshe Dayan’s Living With The Bible. Quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by Moshe Dayan on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 41034
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First Edition of In Praise of Doubt; Inscribed by Peter Berger
BERGER, Peter and Anton Zijderveld.
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic.
New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
First edition of this “book of great practical wisdom by authors who have profound insight into the intellectual dynamics governing contemporary life” (Dallas Willard). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Berger on the front free endpaper, “For Christal, from Peter Berger.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 41764
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First Edition of Slavoj Zizek's The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?; Inscribed by Him
ZIZEK, Slavoj.
The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
London: Verso , 2000.
First edition of this “subtle argument for the Christian faith” (The Boston Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Chris- Slavoj Zizek.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 43268
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Signed Photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
THE DALAI LAMA,.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.
Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, boldly signed by him. The photograph measures 5 inches by 3.5 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 112958
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First Edition of Oswald Chambers' God's Workmanship; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
CHAMBERS, Oswald.
God’s Workmanship.
Wheaton, Ill: Van Kampen Press, 1953.
First edition of this collection of essays by the author of My Utmost For His Highest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 75634
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First Edition of The Alphabet of Grace; Warmly Inscribed by Frederick Buechner
BUECHNER, Frederick.
The Alphabet of Grace.
New York: Seabury Press, 1970.
First edition of this work by the author of A Long Day’s Dying. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Vernon and Mary with love. Freddy Sept. 1970 Rupert Mountain.” The recipients were close friends and neighbors of Buechner. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 46355
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“DO YOUR LITTLE BIT OF GOOD WHERE YOU ARE; IT'S THOSE LITTLE BITS OF GOOD PUT TOGETHER THAT OVERWHELM THE WORLD”: FIRST EDITION OF DESMOND TUTU’S NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS; SIGNED BY HIM
TUTU, Desmond.
No Future Without Forgiveness.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.
New York: Doubleday, 1999. First American edition of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning work which chronicles his courageous chairing of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Octavo, original half-cloth. Signed by the author, “God Bless You Desmond Tutu Mar 2006 Capetown.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1157
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First edition of Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics: A Metaphysical Meditation
CARR, Herbert Wildon.
Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics: A Metaphysical Meditation.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
First edition of Carr’s reflective study on the effects of the principle of evolution in ethics, religion, and philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. Lamont with pleasant recollections of a dejeuner at Bergson’s A. Wildon Carr.” The recipient, Florence Corliss Lamont, was married to American banker Thomas W. Lamont, the acting head of J.P. Morgan & Co. on Black Thursday in 1929. Previous to their marriage, Florence attended Smith College, where the Lamont House is named after her. With the Smith College Lamont House bookplate to the pastedown. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 115018
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“IT IS THROUGH WEAKNESS AND VULNERABILITY THAT MOST OF US LEARN EMPATHY AND COMPASSION AND DISCOVER OUR SOUL”: FIRST EDITION OF GOD HAS A DREAM; SIGNED BY DESMOND TUTU
TUTU, Desmond.
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time.
New York: Doubleday, 2004.
First edition of this powerful work by Archbishop Tutu. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “God Bless You Desmond Tutu June 2004” on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1158
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First Edition of Isaac M. Wise's The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement; published by bloch in the rare original cloth
WISE, Isaac M.
The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement.
Cincinatti: Block and Co., Publishers and Printers, 1866.
First edition of one of the earliest Jewish American devotionals, written by one of the most influential Reform rabbis in the history of the United States and published by the oldest Jewish printing house in the United States. With text in Hebrew, English and German. Small octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. In good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 82401
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Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels; Inscribed by Her
PAGELS, Elaine.
The Gnostic Gospels.
New York: Random House, 1979.
Early printing of the author’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Peter with best wishes from Elaine Pagels.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 108321
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First Edition of Triomphe de l'évangile ou mémoires d'un homme du monde revenu des erreurs du philosophisme moderne Révolution, religion naturelle, philosophie; Finely Bound
OLIVADèS [COMTE DE PILO],.
Triomphe de l’évangile, ou Mémoires d’un homme du monde, revenu des erreurs du philosophisme moderne; ouvrage où l’on combat d’une manière victorieuse les sophismes de l’incrédulité, et dans lequel on démontre la vérité de la religion catholique. [Triumph of the Gospel, or Memories of a man of the world, returned from the errors of modern philosophy; work in which one victoriously fights the fallacies of unbelief, and in which one demonstrates the truth of the Catholic religion].
Lyon: Chez Bruyset aîné et Buynand, 1805.
First edition of this philosophic defense of Catholicism. Octavo, 4 volumes. Bound in speckled calf, gilt title to the spine with red and green labels. Engraved frontispiece in volume one. In very good condition. Scarce.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 59046
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First Edition of N.T. Wright's The Original Jesus; Signed by Him
WRIGHT, N.T. (Tom).
The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman's Publishing, 1996.
First edition of this work on Jesus by the renowned theologian. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by N.T. Wright on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 2366
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First Edition of Prophetic Fragments; Inscribed by Cornel West
WEST, Cornel.
Prophetic Fragments.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/ Africa World Press, 1988.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 3265
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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's Now & Then; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Now & Then.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of the author’s second memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Flanders.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 38965
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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's Now & Then; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Now & Then.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of the author’s second memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Flanders.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 58012
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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick .
The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found.
San Francisco : Harper Collins, 1999.
First edition of this powerful memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Frederick Buechner Dec. 2009.” Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Laura Beers.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 75019
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Rare photographic portrait of Desmond Tutu; warmly inscribed by him
TUTU, Desmond.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Signed Photograph.
Color photograph signed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “God bless you Desmond Tutu 10.12.98.” The photograph measures 5.75 by 4.25 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112961
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John Ruskin's The Queen of the Air; elaborately bound in full vellum
RUSKIN, John.
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm.
London: George Allen, 1892.
Finely bound edition of Ruskin’s classic work on Greek mythology. Octavo, bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, inner dentelles and gilt decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Laid in is an original carte-de-visite of Ruskin by L. Cadesi. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 111030
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First Edition of N.T. Wright's For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church; Inscribed by Him
WRIGHT, N.T.
For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Erdmans Publishing Company, 1997.
First edition of this “passionate and thoughtful book” (The Library Journal). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Jacqueline with love Tom.” In fine condition. Cover design by Lorraine White.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 100861
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First Edition of The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions; Inscribed by Marcus Borg
BORG, Marcus & Wright.
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions.
San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1999.
First edition of this work by theologians Borg and Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Borg on the front free endpaper prior to publication, “Dec. ’98 To Maren, From one who knows yours parents, and with best wishes. Marcus Borg.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 101663
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The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader; Inscribed by Alvin Plantinga
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader.
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1998.
Early printing of the Plantinga Reader. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Len with best wishes Alvin Plantinga.” The recipient was a student of Plantinga at Notre Dame. Edited by James F. Sennett. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 92577
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"My little tasks - the little tasks even of my little life - claim the divinest inspirations": First edition of Reverend Phillips Brook's Perennials
BROOKS, Reverend Phillips.
Perennials: Selections From the Writings of Reverend Phillips Brooks.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1898.
First edition of this book of aphorisms created by American Episcopal clergyman and lyricist Phillips Brooks, best known for writing the lyrics to the Christmas hymn, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Small octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, green marbled endpapers. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 81240
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“I NOT ONLY HAVE MY SECRETS. I AM MY SECRETS. AND YOU ARE YOU’RE YOUR SECRETS”: FIRST EDITION OF FREDERICK BUECHNER’S TELLING SECRETS; SIGNED BY HIM
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Telling Secrets.
San Francisco: Harper, 1991.
. First edition of Buechner’s third autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 110
