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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: $850.00 Item Number: 140093
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce
LEWIS, C.S.
The Great Divorce: A Dream.
London: Geofrey Bles, 1945.
First edition of this classic allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and tear and the bottom of the spine panel replaced.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131512
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The New Whole Duty of Man; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age, AS the Old Whole Duty of Man was design’d for those unhappy Times in which it was written: And Supplying the Articles of the Christian Faith, Which are Wanting in that Book. Though Essentially Necessary to Salvation. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Printed for W. Bent, 1823.
Finely bound example of this classic Protestant devotional work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a maritime view, engraved frontispiece. In good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright. Ownership inscription.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 138215
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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 Collins, 1991.
First edition of Buechner’s third autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Mabry. Photograph by Anne Merck.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135362
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Finely bound First and limited deluxe Confraternity edition of the New Testament
The New Testament of Our Lord Savior Jesus Christ.
Paterson, New Jersey: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1941.
First and limited deluxe Confraternity edition of the New Testament. Quarto, bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, inner dentelles and gilt morocco doublures, watered silk endleaves. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 592. In fine condition without wear.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119406
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First Edition of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HESCHEL, Abraham Joshua.
Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.
First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 78342
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First Edition of the 50th Anniversary Edition of John Stott's Basic Christianity; Inscribed by Him
STOTT, John R.W.
Basic Christianity.
Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008.
First edition of the 50th Anniversary edition of the Stott's classic work, originally published in 1958. Octavo, original black boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For ____ with best wishes from John Stott." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Books signed by John Stott are uncommon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 2246
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First Edition of Herman Wouk's This is My God; Inscribed 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For David and Dan in memory of Uncle Alex Herman Wouk. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Robert Galster.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 49878
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Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion; finely bound with a fore-edge painting of St. Saviour's church in London
Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: R. B. Seeley, 1830.
Finely bound poetry collection decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. 18mo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of St. Saviour's church in London. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 142387
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First edition of Robert Garvey's Good Shabbos, Everybody; illustrated by Maurice Sendak
GARVEY, Robert. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Good Shabbos, Everybody.
United Synagogue of America, 1951.
First edition of charming picture book celebrating the Shabbat, with early illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Leonard Weisgard, Art Consultant. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 127020
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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: $600.00 Item Number: 2366
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“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves
LEWIS, C.S.
The Four Loves.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960.
First edition of this "rare and memorable book" (Saturday Review). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. An exceptional example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145421
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Reflections on the Psalms
LEWIS, C.S.
Reflections on the Psalms.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Elizabeth Andrews.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145135
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's Warrant: The Current Debate; Signed by Him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
Warrant: The Current Debate.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Ann Lowe.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 139243
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Thomas A Kempis' Of the Imitation of Christ; finely bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun for Brentanos
A KEMPIS, Thomas.
Of the Imitation of Christ.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884.
Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Bayntun for Brentano's with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A handsome example.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133424
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“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
LEWIS, C.S.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.
London: Geoffey Bles, 1955.
First edition of Lewis' spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by John R. Biggs.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 134211
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First edition of Joseph Guns' The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews; elaborately bound
GUNS, Joseph. [Translator].
The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].
Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, 1857.
First edition of Joseph Guns' translation of the primary prayers of the German and Polish Jews. 12 mo, original mounted bone onlays over celluloid boards, elaborately decorated front panel with decorated onlays, top edge gilt, brass clasp, patterned endpapers, text in Hebrew and English. In very good condition. Ownership annotations to the front and rear endpapers documenting family deaths.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 136085
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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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"So that, in learning the truth I drew from the gospel, I was not only no alone, but was with all the best men of the past and present": First edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's The Christian Teaching
TOLSTOY, Leo.
The Christian Teaching.
London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1898.
First edition in English of Tolstoy's work the history and influence of Christianity, inspired by his own spiritual awakening. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Translated by Vladimir Tchertkoff. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124036
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First edition of Jean-Louis Bourgeois' Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition; signed by him and Carollee Pelos and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
BOURGEOIS, Jean-Louis. Photographs by Carollee Pelos. [Peter Matthiessen].
Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition.
New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this spectacular celebration of traditional Adobe architecture in the West. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Carollee Pelos. Historical Essay by Basil Davidson. Signed by Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Carollee Pelos on the half-title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140210
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"So that, in learning the truth I drew from the gospel, I was not only no alone, but was with all the best men of the past and present": First American edition of Leo Tolstoy's The Christian Teaching
TOLSTOY, Leo.
The Christian Teaching.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898.
First American edition of Tolstoy's work the history and influence of Christianity, inspired by his own spiritual awakening. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. Translated by Vladimir Tchertkoff. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124255
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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…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115901