Hardcover. New York, Knowlton & Rice, 1st US, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 500 pages plus 4 page index and errata list.Worn leather binding, light soil and foxing throughout. Still, a solid and presentable copy. Chipped leather label on spine reads Rise & Progress of Methodism. First published in Canada by John Wilson. This appears to be the first American publication of the early denominational history. Meacham was a Vermont-born American Methodist preacher from New York who lived and worked in the Bay of Quinte region in 1832-34. He later moved to Illinois where he also practiced medicine. In 1839 he was expelled from the Conference for immoral conduct.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographs illustrating cathedrals and churches of the Rhine region. Front endpaper missing. Dust jacket shows standard wear with slight age darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Red covers with gilt titles to spine, purple dust jacket with color illustration. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; a clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Liberty Fund, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 632 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, light scuffing to back of jacket. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light age wear to jacket. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers with pencil markings. Very light pencil in text.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Cincinnati OH, American Masonic Publishing Association, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, illustrated with a b&w engraved portrait of S. Colfax. Translated and compiled by J. Fletcher Brennan. Green cloth covers with beveled edges, gilt lettering on spine. Copyright page states 1866 but this is believed to be 1st U.S. edition. There is some thin white paint splashed on spine, some ocassional foxing to pages, otherwise internally very good.
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Very clean, tight copy. First published in 1951, book describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches that produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Skira, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn with wrinkling along edges, tape repaired tears. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne , 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with genealogy chart to endpapers. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout, "traces the developmen of Highland life and customs from ancient Celtic times up to the present day...information about dress and dwellings, games and gatherings, superstitions and religions, arms and armor, music and dancing." Clean, unmarked & tight copy.
Hardcover. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume I: 419 pages. Book clean and tight. Dust jacket shows wear along edges. Volume II: 315 pages. Book clean and tight. Dust jacket shows wear along edges. Portuguese text.
Hardcover. New York, Phillips & Hunt, First Edition, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt decoration & titles to spine. Light wear to crown & heel of spine. Previous owners' signature & stamp to front endpaper. Light toning throughout.A very nice copy, clean & unmarked with a lovely binding.
Hardcover. New York, De Witt & Davenport, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Light-brown, embossed cloth covers. Covers fairly worn, particularly along spine and edges. Covers somewhat soiled. Previous owner's signature, sticker, and notes on front end paper and flyleaf. Foxing throughout and on all edges. A few pages with minor pen markings. About 20 pages with creases or tears on bottom edge. Page 166 has small chunk out of it. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor age wear to jacket, otherwise clean and tight copy. Margin marking in pencil in front end papers and within first five pages only.
Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 364 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 396 pages. Dust jacket cover edge wear and tear. Half inch chunk missing from spine top. Previous owner's stamp on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Wrapper excellent, binding tight. Very clean inside and out. "This work marks a significant and tragic moment in the history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, as it promulgates one of Europe's first allegations of Jewish ritual murder of a Christian child. ...This 1896 edition offers the original Latin text and a modern English translation..."
Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, First Edition, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with bright marbled paste down to front & rear boards. Black printed titles to spine. Decorative endpapers with small tear to front flyleaf. Light wear to edges. Previous owners' signature front flyleaf. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Rose colored fabric covering. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "The fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars (who) went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians...to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other Power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East."
Hardcover. Munich, Germany, International Publishing Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A hundred monasteries, some much visited, others hidden jewels, are presented here in words and pictures. Over 270 illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Some slight tanning to edges and pages, otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great condition. The reader is invited to see the varied beauty and special qualities of the art and architecture of the monasteries of England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe by a knowledgeable, urbane, and entertaining guide who has never lost his capacity for wonder.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white maps throughout. Tight copy.