A History of God by Karen Armstrong - 2014

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. First American edition. Hardcover. Fair. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. First American edition. Fair. Bumped corners and rubbing to covers. Spine cover detatched but present. Previous owner bookplate. Sticker on pastedown from Abington Library Society- this and a dewey decimal number on spine are the only library marks. Foxing to endpapers and some to contents. Pages are not crisp perhaps due to being stored in a humid area.

Bridge Publications, , 1982; First Edition, second printing, October, 1982; 8vo, 158 pages of text plus an 8-page catalogue of scientology books and a 2-page comprehensive directory of scientology churches at the back. Bookstore stamp of Hubbard Dianetics Foundation in Pasadena on first blank front end paper. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. A crisp and attractive copy.

Lipsiae Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1862, hardcover. Editio stereotypa secunda, prolegomenis renovatis textuque denuo correcto. -- This copy is the GREEK TEXT of the New Testament, bound with opposite blank (blue) pages for the student's notes: this UNIQUE COPY does have handwritten student notes, probably of the Rev Dr Rickey to whom the book was gifted by his son Matthew, Halifax, 2 December 1869 (?) OR another giftee Nov. 1897 OR a third owner Chas. W. Wright July 1901. -- Hardcover, 3/4 leather, marbled endsheets. Condition: fair (pages are bright and clear, BUT cover detached; inch chip spine crown; spine leather alligatored).

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans (Spottiswoodes & Shaw), 1849. Illustrated by BW port frontis. First edition. Rebound in-house by Karen Thompson Bullock in Hewit acid free (AF) cloth and AF half black calf with AF French marbled eps, marbled edges. Cr.8vo. pp. viii, 374. Very Good/No jacket/Ex-Lib. Only library mark covered on title page, marbled edges a bit darkened, several tiny corner page chips. Beautiful tight copy. [We restore and rebind books and sets]..

Philadelphia: I. Kohler, 1869. Hardcover. Good -. [2], 30 p.: 30 hand-colored woodcuts; 23 cm. Red-brown bubble-grain cloth spine with coral paper over boards printed in black. Title page reproduced on front board within decorative border. Publisher's advertisement for Allgemeine Volks- und Jugend-Schriften on back board. No date of publication. Ignatius Kohler was located at 202 N. 4th St., the address in the imprint, from 1860 to 1879; WorldCat records assign 1869 to this title. Each page contains a hand-colored woodcut with a parable; text is entirely in German. Very scarce. In Good- Condition: cover is heavily finger-soiled; lower edge of back cover dampstained; text block separated from cover; finger soiling throughout; minimal dampstain at lower edge of some leaves; hand-colored woodcuts are clean and bright.

London: Geo. Strahan, and J. Bowyer, 1727. Hardcover. Good. The Third Edition. [24], 356 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A8 a4 B-Z8 2A2 (8vo). 18th-century Cambridge-style binding with blind-tooled and blind-rolled decoration. Publishers' catalogs on 2 pages preceding first page of text. Wood cut head- and tail-pieces. ESTC, t064635. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for Saml. Hart, Sr., Sign of the Bible, Charleston, S.C. Small white embossed armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper with motto "Nec temere nec timide." Former owner's name "R.J. Nelson" and Chicago address written on a small piece of paper attached to the front fixed endpaper, probably covering up a previous owner's name. Written at head of title page: "Stephen Elliott 1841." A few marginal notations. In Good Condition: lacking much leather over spine and some from both boards, which are still attached; faint dampstain and light soiling on title page and first pages thereafter; otherwise, clean and tight.

Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 185pp; Extremely clean, tight, bright copy, Near Fine condition. Collection of essays addressing contemporary conceptions of God. Contents: Preface by D. P. Davies; The Biblical Conceptions of God by Cyril G. Williams; God and Theology by Glyn Richards; God and Science by Dewi M. Lewis; Knowing God: An Ecologist's Perspective by Hefin Jones; God and the Global Economy by Lawrence M. Read; Belief or Experience? The Anthropologist's Dilemma by Fiona Bowie; Philosophy and Theological Castles by Dewi Z. Phillips.

Boston: Cummings & Hillard. Very Good. 1818. Third Edition. Hardcover. Tan stiff wraps with black lettering. Covers & text tight, clean & intact. Spine chipped. Map frontispiece and 3 fold-out maps bound in rear. Blind stamp on title page "Essex Institute 1848". Religion; Maps; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 71 pages .

Philadelphia: Methodist Episcopal Book Room. Very Good+. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Introduction by Rev. Bishop John F. Hurst. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. No foxing. Prior owners book-plate. Methodism in Maryland and Delaware. Religion ; 8vo; 336 pages .

Boston: Crocker and Brewster. Good with no dust jacket; Front boards cracked at outer joint, boards . worn, library stamps and markings on front and verso of title page and . rear free endpaper, contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf, owner . bookplate on front pastedown.. 1832. First American Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather binding with leather spine label. Marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Thomson with tissue guard. lix, 447 pp. Ex-seminary library copy. A collection of 22 selected sermons by the minister of Edinburgh's St. George's Church published directly after his untimely demise. The unattributed memoir preface to this volume notes that Rev. Thomson, in addition to being a parish minister, was active in the Church of Scotland and in public circles about the immediate abolition of slavery in the British colonies. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .