Religion & Spirituality from Books of the World

Toronto: Random House Canada, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Fine. Black remainder dot to bottom edge. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. 304 pages. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive… Read more

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1957. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Harper Torchbooks, TB19. Very Good. Inked name and date inside front cover. Text pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased, but faded. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 8vo. xiv + 266 pages. Preface, 21 chapters with footnotes, selected letters of Erasmus, list of 32 b&w… Read more

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: The Methodist Book Concern, 1905. Hardcover. Later printing, May 1930. Very Good. Text unmarked. Binding sound. 671 pages.

London, New York & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. 1953 printing. Faded red cloth over boards with black lettering. Good book / no jacket. Prior owner's name to FFEP. Underlining in pencil. Sewn binding cocked but sound. Not from a library. 256 pages.

Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 203 pages. A concise and absorbing account of Islamic history and of Islam's role in today's global society. This book spans Islamic history from the life… Read more

New York: Philomel, January 2000. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Black remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise book As New. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. Not clipped. 183 pages. When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot… Read more

New York: Ballantine / Fawcett Crest, February 1987. Mass Market Paperback. 21st printing, December 1989. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with light spine crease. Cover clean and bright with front hinge crease. Edgewear. 395 pages. Winner of the 1985 Governor General's (Canada) Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. Adapted into… Read more

New York: Random House / Vintage Books, June 1990. Vintage Classics Edition. Near Fine. Light dust soiling to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 297 pages. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851… Read more

Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, March 1993. Midland Books, 798. Second printing. Traditional Arts of Africa Series. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Sun fading to spine and cover edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiv + 241 pages. 77 plates. Two maps. 6.1 x 9.25 inches. Examining the… Read more

New York: HarperCollins / Ecco. 2017. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with light shelfwear. Half-inch tear to cover and jacket at top of rear hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 752 pages. In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2006. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four As New DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 159-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. These 24 fascinating lectures will give you a new appreciation of one of the most… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company. DVD. Fine. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original cases along with a Fine 145-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. To step inside a Gothic cathedral is to step inside the visual essence of the Christian faith—a world… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company. DVD. 2001. Fine. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in Fine original case along with a Fine 102-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri is… Read more

New York: Walker Books, October 1999. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Not a remainder. Not damaged. Not from a library. 384 pages. Of Galileo's three illegitimate children, the eldest best mirrored his own brilliance, industry, and sensibility, and by virtue of these qualities became his confidante. Born Virginia in… Read more

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition, likely first printing (no additional printings listed). Quarter-bound in green cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial sides. Sewn binding. Very Good book / no jacket. Text block pristine. Small adhesive ghosts to front endpapers. Spine straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Rubbing to pictorial covers.… Read more

Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1884. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards. Sewn binding. Good book / No jacket. Binding cracked at front hinge, otherwise straight and tight. Prior owner's name inked to first page along with the date "April 6th 1889". Text block appears to be unmarked, but I did not check every page. Cover frayed at spine ends, corners,… Read more

New Delhi: Puffin Books, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Prior owners' names on first page, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 200 pages. Over a hundred color illustrations. A glorious celebration of the richness and diversity of Indian myths and folktales: The… Read more

New Delhi: Penguin Books and Faber & Faber, 2003. Paperback. First Indian Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Sticker on rear cover from Giggle Bookshop, Madras, India. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 277 pages. Winner of the Booker Prize, the judges of which described the story as "A coruscating… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Ends bumped. No jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 176 pages. Long, long ago Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete, who helped with the holiday rounds. Together the friends brought… Read more

New York: William Morrow, October 2007. Special Gift Edition designed to look like a bible. Imitation leather. Gilt edges. Bound-in red ribbon marker. Red endpapers. Flexible binding. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 417 pages. An irreverent, iconoclastic, and divinely… Read more