Search Results: Ministers from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Kansas City, Mo.: Nazarene Publishing House. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 32 pages. Soft cover bound in blue stapled wrappers. Rubbing and wear to the binding, which is a little dust-stained. Prior owner's name written in pencil numerous times on the front cover. A sound copy with unmarked text. Prior owner's inscription on the title page. No date, but the owner's signature is dated 1969.

New York and Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1915. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 128 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in brown cloth with lettering in white. Moderate wear and rubbing to the binding. A sound copy. The text has a few occasions of underlining in pencil.

New York: W. M. Dodd, 1854. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 408 pages. Hardcover bound in dark brown publisher's cloth. The binding is quite rubbed and worn but sound. Corners bumped; headcap of spine is a bit chipped; bottom 2 inches of the cloth on the front hinge is splitting. Lacks first flyleaf (a blank). Text block is sound. Dispite appearances, a solid copy. Bayley was of the Virginia Conference. Preface is dated Richmond, Va., 1854.

Nashville, Tenn.: Cokesbury Press, 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 182 pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Binding is worn and rubbed, some staining to cover. INSCRIBED by Author on flyleaf.

Nashville, Tenn.: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 80 pages. Hardcover bound in maroon publisher's cloth with gilt titles. Binding is quite worn - spine and corners are bumped, white scuffing on spine, other misc. stains. A few scribbles, and a few creases otherwise text is clean. Hinges are sound.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo. 115 pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Light to moderate wear to the binding. The remains of the jacket are folded and laid inside the book loosely.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1949. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. xi, 87 pages. Hardcover with a grey and red dust jacket. Moderate rubbing to the jacket. The book is sound and clean.

Portland, Omaha, Cristolbal, Canal Zone: Pacific Press Publishing Assn., 1926. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 860, (1) pages, indexed. Hardcover in red cloth. VOL 3 ONLY. Binding has scuffing, damp spots. Fore-edge of boards have been badly damped so the red dye of the cloth has turned a mottled pink. Rear board has been more affected than front board. Spine is sunned. Rear flyleaf and pastedown have picked up some of the damping and have a pink colour. Text is toned. A publishers note placed loosely within the book notes that this edition has thinner paper and some of the illustrations and extraneous text have been removed to permit this volume to be taken along when travelling. It also states the book is the "same in both paging and matter as the complete subscription editions". Excellent reading copy. Illustrations throughout.

London: Richard D. Dickinson, 1873. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 471 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in brown cloth. Covers scuffed, rubbed. Spine is toned. Fraying at headcap/foot of spine. Some spotting on right edge of front cover. Inner front hinge is slightly loose but gutter is sound. Pencilled notation on title page. Text is toned, with some foxing but is otherwise sound.

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1973. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 48 pages. Hardcover with a tan dust jacket. The jacket shows some wear, and there is a chip at the bottom edge of the jacket's rear panel. A sound copy with clean text. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. The author writes of her family and father, who was a Methodist minister in the Southeast. The father, W. A. Betts was born in Blockersville,North Carolina in 1857 and graduated from UNC in 1880 (her grandfather, also a methodist minister, had met Robert E. Lee). The father was in Cabarrus County in the 1870s and after marriage moved to Charleston, South Carolina. The family also lived in Atlanta and eventually ended up in Texas.

N.p.: The Author, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 78 pages. Hardback bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on a burgundy background. Light wear and moderate toning to the binding. A sound copy. The author was from near Richmond, Virginia. He began writing these essays and thoughts in the 1920's and added more and revised some of the older ones when World War II began. In the essays he tries to make sense of human anguish, often with a religious or philosophical perspective.

New York: The United States Publishing Company, 1872. Hardcover. Poor. 8vo. 304 pages. Hardcover bound in black cloth. EX-LIBRARY copy with all markings. Binding is rubbed, scuffed. Corners bumped, rubbed to boards. Spine has been partially covered with blue and clear tape. White label on spine. Interior hinges have been taped. Library book plate inside front cover. Inscription written inside front cover. Light toning to outer edges of pages. Page 303/304 has detached and been placed loosely in the book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Clara Urquhart. 8vo. 254 pages. Hardcover bound in grey cloth. A sound copy and clean within. Illustrated with photos.

Richmond: The Deitz Press, Inc., 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. 148 pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with a blue dust jacket. Signed by a former owner on the front pastedown. The jacket has moderate edgewear; the headcap of the jacket is chipped. Clean and unfoxed within. A collection of essays by a Methodist minister who was born in Petersburg and lived in Richmond. The essays are on a variety of topics including Methodism, friendship, happiness, and poety (he discusses in separate essays Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Robert Burns).

Chicago: The Christian Century Company, 1904. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 124 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. Binding is a bit rubbed, and the corners are bumped. Early owner's signature on the front flyleaf. Text is a little toned but is generally clean.

Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House. Third Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 215 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in dark green cloth. The binding shows moderate wear. Heavy ink notations on the endpaeprs and occasional sporadic underlining in the text. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. No date; appears to be early 20th century. This is the revised and improved Third Edition. The First Edition was 1897 and the Second Edition was 1901. A reading or reference copy only.

New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1855. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 266, (22) pages. Hardcover bound in green publisher's cloth with spine title and designs in gilt. The binding shows wear and soiling and has some splash marks on the rear cover near the fore edge. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is foxed. "James F. Clark" is stenciled or printed on the front flyleaf. A sound copy.

Richmmond Press, Inc., Printers, 1915. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 8vo. 240 pages. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. THE TEXT IS INCOMPLETE. Lacks the front flyleaf (a blank) as well as the last page of text and the rear flyleaf. This volume has 240 pages; there should be 241. Undated. Worldcat suggests a publication date of 1915. Robert Gamaliel Pearson (1847-1913) was a Presbyterian minister born in Mississippi of Quaker parents from North Carolina. He received his education in Mississippi and at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. Later in life he made his home in Asheville, North Carolina but continued his association with Cumberland as well as Columbia Theological Seminiary in Decatur, Georgia.

N.p.: N.p., 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 363 pages. Hardcover bound in blue buckram. Minimal wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. Laid in loosely is a printed letter from Charles M. Spurr pertaining to the presentation of this work to the Lacy family.

Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 215 pages. Hardcover bound in yellow cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. There is some damping on the rear cover and there are some old dry brown mildew stains on the endpapers. Rear inner hinge is starting. Text is sound and clean. INSCRIBED and signed by the author on the front flyleaf, "To: Betty G. Martin / my secretary and / companion in my labors / Holmes Rolston / December 23. 1958.