History / Religious

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Good/No Jacket. The Kinneys. This christian novel involves Paulus, the Roman citizen of Tarsus, Roman Attilius, the patrician pretorian, and the British Gwenna. The setting is Rome during the early Roman Empire. The author promises a story rather than a sermon, and there is a romantic tie between Attilius and Gwenna. As the author indicates in his preface, "Paulus will preach his gospel, and the religion of his Christ will be set forth in opposition to the heathenism just as decisively, and the results will be seen just as clearly as if the sanded arena were wet with the blood of the slain." But he promised to leave out all extended description of Roman life or manners, leave out wild orgies, and vulgar or licentious revels of the Caesar and his degenerate friends. The story is split into 27 chapters and five books. 399 pages, it includes four color illustrations (one is laid in) and an afterword. The binding is green cloth with wear to all corners and wear at the spine ends. Light wear to the board ends. There is a 1/2" tear to the cloth at the front bottom hinge. The binding is loose in a few areas; overall just the one illustration is loose. The page edges are yellowed; the gold lettering on the front is missing in a few spots, and almost completely gone on the spine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Oxford, England: Lion Publishing Plc, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Paintings, Drawings. Many of the prophets of Ancient Israel were mystics who received amazing visions of God's glory. They preserved those visions in poetry so sublime that their words still have the power to move millions, who seek, as they did, to live their lives in tune with the Spirit of the universe. These selections from the writings of Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others include revelations of God's love, power and creative purpose that no other sacred writings can claim. The selections are arranged under thirty headings, providing daily mediatations for a month. 48 pages including picture credits. The binding is a glossy pictorial. This book is small enough to slip into a pocket or purse. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. For many people around the world - perhaps most people - there is nothing more important than religion. It has comforted them in their suffering, become an integral part of their marriages and child rearing, and encouraged group cooperation to achieve ends both magnificient and terrible. In this daring and important new book, the author seeks to uncover the origins of this remarkable family of phenomena that means so much to so many people, and to discuss why - and how - they have commanded allegiance, become so potent, and shaped so many lives so strongly. In a spirited argument that ranges widely through biology, history, and psychology, Dennett explores how religion evolved from folk beliefs and how these early "wild" strains of religion were then carefully and consciously domesticated. This book is not an antireligious screed but rather an eye-opening exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives, our interactions, and our country. With the conflict between science and "intelligent design" becoming ever more impassioned, Dennett has written a calmly reasoned and timely book that will be read and debated by believers and nonbelievers alike. 448 pages including case studies, notes, bibliography, and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr, 2000. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Photographs. In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. This disturbing and dramatic tale is told to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild west" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. To the Anglos of Clifton-Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, adn they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. In retelling this little-known piece of American history, the author brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child." 416 pages, including notes, acknowledgments, and an index. One page is dog-eared, and one page has a small wrinkle at the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United Kingdom: Rigel, 2004. Hard Cover. New/New. Who was the real Jesus? There have been countless tellings of the life of Jesus Christ but can we ever know what really happened? Here renowned historian Michael Grant analyses the stories behind the Gospels to give perhaps the most perceptive account of Jesus' life and bring us as near as we may come to the truth about his upbringing, relationships, teachings, miracles and final days in Jerusalem. Even more intriguingly, Dr. Grant allows us a glimpse of the character and motivations of Jesus himself. (From the jacket back) The binding is pictorial, having the same picture as the dust jacket. 261 pages including notes, ancient writings and terms, a short bibliography, and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: W H Freeman & Co, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs, Drawings. This book is a unique and provocative look at how science and religion - too often considered at odds with one another - are actually parallel ways of trying to make sense of the same material world, each a voice intertwining with the other to halp shape true human understanding. With great humor and wit, the authors, one a Nobel laureate and the other an Israeli-American writer and student of religion - show how daily experience and seemingly innocuous questions such as "What is this mixture?" "How do I tell left from right?" and "How can one make the bitter sweet?" can lead to deeper philisophical issues concerning religion, art, and science. This book discusses what it means to be impure, whether humans have a right to dominate the environment, and the difference between the natural and the unnatural. The use of letters, e-mail, a play, the transcript of a trial, a debate and an autobiography are used to address contentious issues and eternal problems in fresh new ways. 362 pages including notes, credits, glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms, and an index. Illustrated with color photographs and black and white photos, drawings, letters and so forth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr, 1998. No Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. For most of the 20th century, social thinkers devoted their attention mainly to the issues of economic class. They generally dismissed the more primordial bonds of racial, ethnic, and national anachronisms that either communism or the liberal frameworks of democracy would dissolve. Today, communism is nearly dead and liberalism is on the wane. At the same time, older ethno-racial tribalisms, along with some newly invented ones, have shattered our illusions of a rationally manageable world. They find expression in the chauvanistic nationalisms, multicultarist ideologies, vicious civil wars, "ethnic cleansing" of whole regions, intensified racial and ethnic strife, a resurgence of prejudice, scapegoating, hate groups, and nativism as well as new group-based challenges to the individualistic focus of Western liberalism. Bringing together prominent historians, socialists, and political scientists, New Tribalisms examines early conceptions of race and ethnic pluralism in the United States. The volume also confronts some of the causes, implications, and possible outcomes of resurgent tribalisms in the country and around the world. 373 pages including notes on the contributors and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. While religion has fueled the violent conflict plaguing the Middle East, Yossi Klein Halevi wondered whether it could be a source of unity as well. To find the answer, he began a two-year exploration of the devotional life of Christianity and Islam. He followed their holiday cycles, befriended Christian monastics and Islamic mystics, and joined them in prayer in monasteries and mosques - searching for wisdom and holiness in places that are usually off-limits to outsiders of other faiths. In this gripping work, Halevi candidly reveals how he fought to resolve his own fears and anger as a Jew and came to relate to Christians and Muslims as fellow spiritual seekers. He chronicles the difficulty of overcoming obstacles - theological, political, historical and psychological - that separate believers of the three monotheistic faiths. And he introduces a dynamic range of fascinating individuals attempting to reconcile the dichotomous heart of this sacred place - a struggle central to Israel, but which resonates for us all. Written in lyrical prose, Halevi takes his search for God into the heart of the Middle Eastern conflict. He insists on a spirituality that isn't escapist but instead confronts the wounds of history. The result is a book startlingly original and bold, one that embraces and transcends the categories of politics and faith. 315 pages. Binding is half cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Paulist Press, 1941. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Photographs. This book is the story of the coming of the Cenacle from France to the United States to plant a heavenly seed on the banks of the Hudson. The great sycamore tree in the Cenacle garden of New York symbolizes its blessed growth. To many who have not yet "heard of this treasure" to quote Pope Pius XII, the story will tell the women of America how to reach it. "Blessed are they who find." 257 pages including notes and an index. 16 pages of photographs, 8 of the sisters and 8 of their convents throughout the country. The binding is blue cloth with gold lettering. The top corners are lightly worn; the bottom corners are slightly bumped. The spine tail has light wear. The jacket, in a protective cover, has two repaired 1/2" tears on the front; the the corners have wear and a few chips. The spine ends have light wear and a bit of chipping. The book is signed and inscribed by the author in pen on the front free end paper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.A.: Abradale/Abrams, 1997. First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Okamura, Takashi. Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (1534), painted on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, is one of the most important works in the history of art. In this book, the newly cleaned and restored fresco is presented in all its powerful complexity. Richly illustrated iwth 150 mangificent full-color plates - showing the painting in its entirety and many close-up details - this book offers an in-depth study of the work itself. Clothbound, 207 pages with a selected bibliography. Two small tears at the bottom front of the jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Photographs and Artwork. Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, 14th century Sienese artists established within their city a vibrant pictorial tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory images of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese Marian art - how it was commissioned, created and understood by the Sienese. Drawing extensively from unpublished archive material the author reconstructs the circumstances surrounding commission of Marian art in the three most prestigious location of 14th century Siena: The cathedral, the Palazzo Pubblilco and the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. Casting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of Saint Cerbone and the identity of the patrons of the marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of San Leonardo al Lago, Norman deepens our insights into the origins and the meanings of Sienese art production of the late medieval period. 251 pages including notes and index. Richly illustrated in full color, including some illuminated manuscripts. Heavy oversized book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1942. Second Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. This novel is about Rome, during the early Roman Empire, the Christian religion, and the violence and warring that occurred. There are several references to bible passages as footnotes. 179 pages including bibliography. The binding is a deep red cloth with gold lettering. The corners and spine ends are lightly worn, and there is a 1" scratch on the front, near the bottom, that can be seen in the right light. At the top near the spine the cloth is slightly wrinkled. Binding is solid. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997. No Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Hedgecoe, Julia. The magnificent roof bosses of the Norwich Cathedral are one of the great hidden glories of medieval art. There are more than 1,000 of these delightfully carved and painted keystones in the high stone vaulting, dating from 1300 to 1515 and measuring between eight and twenty-four inches wide. The vast majority are figure carvings uniquely linked together in storytelling patterns, reflecting a variety of pagan, Christian, and folk subjects. In quantity and quality, Norwich's bosses are among the most impressive in Europe, while their narrative arrangement makes them unparalleled in the medieval world. This book reproduces the most striking and interesting examples, selected from the hundreds of exquisite photographs taken by the distinguished photographer Julia Hedgecoe, under the auspices of the cathedral. They are introduced and fully described in a lively text by one of Norwich's foremost medieval historians, Martial Rose. 144 pages including a bibliography, listing of illustrations and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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UAHC, 1960. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Includes all Jewish holidays and explains their meanings. At the back is a place sort of like a baby book - to enter information about yourself. Only a small part is filled in. The book starts with welcoming the baby into the new world. The binding has pictorial boards and is worn at the edges and stained on the back. This book was used in religious schooling. 134 pages, some illustrations, some Hebrew included. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Oxford, England: Lion Publishing Plc, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Paintings, Drawings. The leaders of the first generation of Christians preserved and developed the teaching of Jesus in the form of letters written to guide and encourage the groups of believers, or churches, that sprang up throughout the Roman Empire. Some of those letters - most notably those of St. James, St. John, St. Peter and St. Paul - include words of wisdom and insight that have proved an inspiration to millions in the generations that have followed. The words of the Apostles gathered here are arranged under thirty headings, providing daily mediatations for a month. 48 pages including picture credits. The binding is a glossy pictorial. This book is small enough to slip into a pocket or purse. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of New England, 1998. Soft Cover. New. Still in publisher's plastic, this collection of more than 100 images captures the essence of Shaker life in poses both pious and playful, and records how individual identity was nurtured, rather than extinguished by the community. Chosen from thousands of photos saved by Eldress Bertha Lindsay, these phjotos give new life to the Shaker lifestyle. These farmers, artisans, and celibate guardians of orphan children lived in what the authors calls an unusually humane environment and maintained a faith that was "remarkably resilient and long-lasting." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. Illustrated. NEW - (From the Introduction) Many readers of this book no doubt grew up hearing stories about the saints. To me, the most arresting were those of the girls, some scarcely older than I was, who became virgin martyrs by suffering excruciating tortures to safeguard their "purity." The proportion of legends with unusual plots is higher in this collection than it was in English anthologies. Most Middle English virgin martyr legends compactly narrate the universal story of the saints suffering and martyrdom. I am catering to the modern reader's taste for diversity. In doing so, I am participating in the enterprise of the medieval writers I am translating - that of making old stories accessible to new readers, who are attracted to them for reasons very different from those of the very earliest audiences. 201 pages including appendices and 7 illustrations. The binding is reddish cloth. Issued without a jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Oxford, England: Lion Pub, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Drawings. Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp: The men who led the early church immediately after the age of the apostles are known collectively as the Apostolic Fathers. They lived in different parts of the Roman Empire and wrote letters to the fledgling churches in much the same way as St. Peter and St. Paul had done before them. This short anthology distils the essence of their wisdom for all who seek guidance and encouragement in their spiritual lives today. The extracts gathered here are arranged under thirty headings, providing daily mediatations for a month. 48 pages including picture credits. The binding is a glossy pictorial. This book is small enough to slip into a pocket or purse. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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