PERSONALITY AND THE FACT OF CHRIST by Sloan, Harold P - 1933

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1825. Second Edition. Original Wraps. Good. 72pp; 72 woodcuts; front cover lacking. 6" x 3.5" First published in 1825, this primer includes the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism, and Directions for Studying the Scriptures. The author, formerly Minister of a Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, was "now Principal of Female Seminary in Wethersfield, Ct." [American Imprints 20403].

Full title is: The Pastor's Corner An Intimate Discussion of Moral and Spiritual Problems. The author, William Melville Curry, D.D., was Pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa. at the time of the book publication. It is inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on the first free end page adjacent to the front pastedown. Not sure of all the words in the inscription but it seems to say: To Prof. Alice ?, with sincere acknowledgement of the debt dating from her days of old, Wm. M Curry, Feb 2. 1929.(See picture) The introduction is by Charles R. Erdman, D.D., LL.D., President, Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. The corners and top and bottom of spine are slightly worn. No page creasing. Top edge of pages are dirty from dust. 208 pages

Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co First Edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, no date. Volume 2 only. The Origin of the Mental Capacities and Dispositions of Man and their Normal, Abnormal and Supernormal Manifestations. Thick 8vo., 6 1/2"x10," dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. vii+361 pages. Very good plus, clean tight copy. Volume 2 only.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..

NY: Scarecrow Press, 1964. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Scarecrow Press, 1964, first printing with errata slip laid in. 8vo., 236 pp. Beige cloth with black titles. Very slight soil to the cloth, else near fine with no wear.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo..

London: Salvation Army Publishing Department. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Pages tanning lightly. Previous owner name and gift inscription on front inside cover. Maroon decorated cloth with gilt lettering. Cover shows light normal shelfwear, light bumping at spine and minimal rubbing at lower corners. Top text edge stamped with a church address. ; From the Preface: The present volume contains some of the papers bearing on the Birth and Death and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ which I have contributed from time to time to Salvation Army periodicals. I hope that in this form they may continue the service of souls which I am assured they began to render when, one by one, they were first published. Much in them has, I do not doubt, come to me directly or indirectly by inspiration or suggestion of other writers and speakers, and I desire therefore to acknowledge my indebtedness to the living, both inside and outside our borders, as well as the… Read More

Santiago De Chile: Imprenta De San Jose, 1920. Small Quarto. 132p, a very scarce work with the only recorded hard copy being in the National Library of Chile [New York Public has a microfilm copy]. Covers the history of Freemasonry in Chile. Bound in rust paper covered flexible boards backed in brown cloth, paper paste-down label, laid in is an 11p. primer suplemento a la nomina de masones de chile corners a bit bent, some toning to leaves, small barcode sticker to rear pastedown. A good copy.

London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer, 1869 fourth edition, edited by Rev Orby Shipley, contains facsimiles of original illustrations of the 1635 edition, printed on quality laid paper, includes facsimile of the original 1635 title page titled thus; 'The Femall Glory: or, The Life, and Death of our Bleffed Lady, the Holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate Mother: To whofe facred Memory the Author dedicates thefe his humble Endeavours' etc, chocolate cloth with black panelling and gilt titling, lightly rubbed to edges with some small holes forming to the cloth, reddened closed page edges, paste downs darkened and discoloured from paste action, partially discoloured bookseller label ( G F Sewell, Bradford) two india ink inscriptions to fep, half title leaf followed by frontis then clii ( Intro followed by ' On the Cultus of The Blessed Virgin Mary ' ) followed by 185 + 3pp Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, binding loosening, pages are printed with decorative heads and panelling. reprint.… Read More

London: Everett & Co, 1908. Paperback in good condition; Head and foot of spine very worn.. 240 pages.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth. In original green dust jacket. 332 pages. Minor edgewear; jacket spine and portion of text block lightly sunned.