"Rest Or Unrest" by Sarah J. Jones - 1888: A Story Of The Parisian Sabbath In America

Aberdeen: J. Chalmers and Co. 1802, 9th edition. (Hardcover) 144pp. Good. Bound in brown leather. The book is quite worn and has a previous owner's inscription dated 1825. (Religion).

London: Routledge [0-415-06292-6] [1992]. (Hardcover) 294pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Decorated endpapers, bibliography, indices. There is a scuff mark on the front cover. Book about Salman Rushdie. (Religion--Eastern, Islam, Postmodernism, Religion--Eastern).

Bridge Publications, , 1982; First Edition, second printing, October, 1982; 8vo, 158 pages of text plus an 8-page catalogue of scientology books and a 2-page comprehensive directory of scientology churches at the back. Bookstore stamp of Hubbard Dianetics Foundation in Pasadena on first blank front end paper. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. A crisp and attractive copy.

Philadelphia: I. Kohler, 1869. Hardcover. Good -. [2], 30 p.: 30 hand-colored woodcuts; 23 cm. Red-brown bubble-grain cloth spine with coral paper over boards printed in black. Title page reproduced on front board within decorative border. Publisher's advertisement for Allgemeine Volks- und Jugend-Schriften on back board. No date of publication. Ignatius Kohler was located at 202 N. 4th St., the address in the imprint, from 1860 to 1879; WorldCat records assign 1869 to this title. Each page contains a hand-colored woodcut with a parable; text is entirely in German. Very scarce. In Good- Condition: cover is heavily finger-soiled; lower edge of back cover dampstained; text block separated from cover; finger soiling throughout; minimal dampstain at lower edge of some leaves; hand-colored woodcuts are clean and bright.

London: Geo. Strahan, and J. Bowyer, 1727. Hardcover. Good. The Third Edition. [24], 356 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A8 a4 B-Z8 2A2 (8vo). 18th-century Cambridge-style binding with blind-tooled and blind-rolled decoration. Publishers' catalogs on 2 pages preceding first page of text. Wood cut head- and tail-pieces. ESTC, t064635. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for Saml. Hart, Sr., Sign of the Bible, Charleston, S.C. Small white embossed armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper with motto "Nec temere nec timide." Former owner's name "R.J. Nelson" and Chicago address written on a small piece of paper attached to the front fixed endpaper, probably covering up a previous owner's name. Written at head of title page: "Stephen Elliott 1841." A few marginal notations. In Good Condition: lacking much leather over spine and some from both boards, which are still attached; faint dampstain and light soiling on title page and first pages thereafter; otherwise, clean and tight.

1236 pages. The covers are detached and attached to spine by tape. The first four leaves are detached. Rear free endpaper is missing. Else  very good. Weight is over 2.5 Kg. The book is in Latin and Hebrew.

Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 185pp; Extremely clean, tight, bright copy, Near Fine condition. Collection of essays addressing contemporary conceptions of God. Contents: Preface by D. P. Davies; The Biblical Conceptions of God by Cyril G. Williams; God and Theology by Glyn Richards; God and Science by Dewi M. Lewis; Knowing God: An Ecologist's Perspective by Hefin Jones; God and the Global Economy by Lawrence M. Read; Belief or Experience? The Anthropologist's Dilemma by Fiona Bowie; Philosophy and Theological Castles by Dewi Z. Phillips.

Burlington, Vt: Stephen C. Ustick, 1812. Hardcover. Good +. Corrected and Enlarged, with a Chronological Table of the Leading Events of Eccelesiastical History, from the birth of Christ down to the present time. Fifth American Edition, With additional Notes and Corrections." Dennis Heartt, printer. 324 p., frontispiece; 18 cm. Contemporary calf spine with gilt-tooled spine title and gilt rules on spine; marbled paper over boards. Frontispiece bears small portraits of 9 religious figures "Engraved for S.C. Ustick." Not in Early American Imprints, ser. II: Shaw-Shoemaker. At head of title page: "James Reed's Book." Paper label on back fixed endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Washington County Historical Society by Dottie Lockhart in 1906. Two paper labels on lower half of spine. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: rubbed; loss of 2 cm. at tail of spine; front joint cracked; shadow on title page from frontispiece; pages are browning with several small stains; otherwise, clean and solid. 4.

Philadelphia: I. Kohler, 1869. Hardcover. Good -. [2], 30 p.: 30 hand-colored woodcuts; 23 cm. Red-brown bubble-grain cloth spine with coral paper over boards printed in black. Title page reproduced on front board within decorative border. Publisher's advertisement for Allgemeine Volks- und Jugend-Schriften on back board. No date of publication. Ignatius Kohler was located at 202 N. 4th St., the address in the imprint, from 1860 to 1879; WorldCat records assign 1869 to this title. Each page contains a hand-colored woodcut with a parable; text is entirely in German. Very scarce. In Good- Condition: cover is heavily finger-soiled; lower edge of back cover dampstained; text block separated from cover; finger soiling throughout; minimal dampstain at lower edge of some leaves; hand-colored woodcuts are clean and bright.

Philadelphia: Methodist Episcopal Book Room. Very Good+. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Introduction by Rev. Bishop John F. Hurst. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. No foxing. Prior owners book-plate. Methodism in Maryland and Delaware. Religion ; 8vo; 336 pages .