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. Boston, American Unitarian Association, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor spotted stains along the back cover. Library sticker on spine, and library stamp on front fly leaf. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine, plus top edge gilt.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 441 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Cloth covers with rubbing to corners. Dust jacket with chunks of paper missing along edges - jacket now protected with plastic cover.
Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Some scratches on covers. Corners and spine a little worn. Slight wear on rear cover along fore edge. Top corner of first few pages lightly bent/creased. Good, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 302 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JAMES P. SHANNON TO CATHERINE O'MEARA ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top rear edge. Some brief pencil notes in margins.
Hardcover. US, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Studies, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight blemish on spine, otherwise clean and tight copy. JAAR, Thematic Studies 48/3 & 4.
Hardcover. np, Council of Women for Home Missions and the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, light gray cloth, b&w illustrations, light ink marking to pages 8 and 9 in margins, otherwise clean. Uncommon in original hardcover.
Boston, American Tract Society, 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front cover. Cover has edgewear. Front hinge cracked.
Softcover. Brooklyn, WI, No Bull Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated chapter headings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows normal wear to spine and some fading. Light pencil marking in text.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Bookplate of William Lyon Phelps, American author, critic and scholar. He held a position at Yale University in the English Department for 41 years, and his works include: "Human Nature in the Bible", 1923. Gilt title on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows minor wear and one apparent cut along edge of spine, 1.5 inches long and not fully separated. Copy clean and tight with previous owners initials whited out in front end papers.
Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 444 pages. Black & white illustrations. Ex-Library copy with usual marks and stamping. Dust jacket worn.
Hardcover. Norwood, MA, Norwood Press, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pp. 19 b&w illustrations. Slight wear and tear on the cover and some discoloration on the pages.
Hardcover. New York , American Council of Learned Societies, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st Thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations. Wrapper very good. A touch of tanning and a little bit of soil to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight. "A tender, ironic portrait of the philosopher William James, who came at the world with energetic diffidence and forged an inspiring philosophy of pluralistic, psychological nuance."
Hardcover. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, March 1, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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, Crossroad, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. 8vo. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. A bit of glue residue on top page edges. Very good color pictorial dust jacket with light edgewear and very minor browning.
Hardcover. Boston MA, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front panel. Moderate bumping to corners. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Mild age toning to text block edges