Search Results: Religion / Inspiration from Bruce McLeod

Very Good 4th printing trade paperback. Very scarce and collectible book details how 70 people from all walks of life tell how they found God. Some wear to covers, but interiors are excellent: clean & fresh, no markings but for a few hand-written notations in margins of first page. 5.5" x 8", 254 pages. Cover and frontispiece photos show English Gardens at Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg.

Latimer Publishing, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. VERY GOOD trade paperback. Light shelfwear only. Appears unread: crisp, clean and unmarked interiors. 5.25" x 8", 144 pages.

Toronto: The Musson Book Co. Ltd., 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing. Excellent red cloth boards with gilt titles and few marks, corners not bumped. Square and solid binding, all text FINE. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. 5.25" x 7.5", 265 pages, 6 b&w plates including frontispiece portrait.

London, U.K.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD/no DJ First Edition, 1st Printing. Beautiful navy boards with gold lettering. Clean, solid, mo markings except for previous owner's name. 4.5" by 6.5", 265 pages. - Written anonymously in 1918, Miss Phillimore admitted authorship in later years.

Bracebridge, Ontario: The Canadian Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1940. Soft cover. Near Fine. NEAR-FINE second edition of this staple-binding book. Lightly tanned, otherwise as-new, no markings. 5.5" x 7.75", 13 pages of text, 34 historic photographs from prior to 1940 on b&w plates, artwork by H.S. Stevenson, dated 1934, two-page map. History of the Canadian Congregation of the Society of St John the Evangelist, which started in Bracebridge in the Muskoka region of Ontario in 1928.

Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD First Edition Hardcover. Navy blue boards with only light shelf-wear. Square and solid binding, all 342 pages excellent : clean, tight, unmarked, one page with small tape remnant. 6.25" by 8.5". Contains 300 hymns with musical scoring. The hymns are arranged in alphabetical order according to first lines. Also includes 45 scripture passages suitable for use in worship services, offertory responses, graces, benedictions and prayers.

Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. VG in navy and black boards. An excellent copy, clean, tight, solid. Interiors crisp and bright. About 6" x 8", 342 pages. First page has previous owner's signature. Contains 300 hymns with musical scoring, arranged in alphabetical order according to first lines.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD 7th Impression. Blue boards with elaborate gilt decoration of Virgin Mary and cross. Only a hint of rubbing at extremities, no bumps. Frontispiece with tissue guard by artist T.Baines. Very nice unmarked interior, slightly tanned, a few pages with light foxing. 4.25" x 6.75", 44 pages.

Boston, MA, USA: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine. NEAR-FINE HC, a tremendous copy of the revised and enlarged 1932 printing. Nearly perfect embossed brown and gold cloth, square and solid (as-new) binding. All pages superb, appears unhandled and unread. Gift inscription and sticker on blank front endpaper, dated 1935. A great copy for collectors! Includes 7 hymns written by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. All selections include lyrics and musical notation. Includes alphabetical index, metrical index, composers and sources index, tempo indications, authors and sources index, first line index.

Toronto: Church of England in Canada. Hardcover. Fine. FINE second edition hardcover, undated but circa 1950's. A magnificent copy: no wear to brown cloth boards, square & tight binding with as-new hinges, all pages pristine and unmarked, appears unread. 5.25" by 7.5", 457 pages. Book No. 4 of the G.B.R.E. series is a textbook written for members of the clergy and Sunday School teachers.

London, U.K.: William Heinemann, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VERY GOOD First Edition. "First Edition in one volume - consisting of 50,000 copies." The letter 'A' on first text page. A very nice copy of this scarce 1st printing, in blindstamped burgundy cloth, with publisher's colophon, gilt titles, geometric and floral design. Light rubbing at extremities, tiny tear at head of spine, square & solid, previous owner's name & date (1897) on endpaper, all text pages excellent, a few pages miscut by printer resulting in rough edges, a few minor foxing spots mostly on fore-edges. 5.75" by 7.75", 452 pages.

Italy: Nencini Editore, 1999. Soft cover. As New. AS-NEW Softcover. no wear, no markings. 6.5" x 9.5", 79 pages, illustrated in b&w and colour.

Fine 1st printing trade softcover. No creases, crisp & clean, occasional light pencil underlining only. 6" x 9", 317 pages, photos, index.

Fine 1st printing hardcover, likely limited edition in faux leather, with tissue guard on title page, gilt edges on all sides of text block, ribbon marker, glossy colour chapter title pages. Short gift inscription on prelim page, otherwise pristine interiors. The best-selling author, a well-known radio personality (a worldwide daily radio broadcast: Insight for Living) writes about preparation, perseverance, and promise.

Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. VERY GOOD Trade Paperback, 6" x 9", 468 pages, appendix. Very nice copy, clean and solid, occasional underlining.

Fine 1st printing. Previous owner's name on title page , otherwise as-new in all respects. 5.25" x 8.25", 213 pages.

NY: Touchstone, 2006. First Edition / ARC . Soft cover. As New. AS-NEW Advance Uncorrected Proof in paper wraps, pre-dates First Edition. Unmarked, no wear, clearly unhandled and unread. 6" x 9", 449 pages.

Fine First Edition Trade Softcover. A beautiful copy, with nearly-new covers and crisp & clean text. Ownership stamp on endpaper is only marking. 6x9, 252 pages. So many men find themselves searching for some sense of what is sacred and want to connect to something eternal, something greater than themselves. The question is: with so many choices, so many traditions, so many gods and heroes - which ones?

Sioux Falls, SD, USA: Ex Machina Publishing Company, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near-Fine First Edition. Nearly perfect wraps, pristine unmarked interiors. Includes several laid-in papers from the publishe: original news release and informational pamphlet, letter and two-page article on the book and author. 5.5" x 8.5", 260 pages, map, b&w and color photos, introduction by R. Goertz, translator's preface, petition to President Wilson, chronology to Hutterite history, notes on the translation. In this book, journalist Michael Holzach infiltrates the closed communal society of the Huttterites in the Wilson and Waterton colonies of Alberta, Canada.

Cleveland, Ohio: German Baptist Publication Society, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. FINE first edition hardcover, no DJ. A superb copy in clean tan cloth, titles stamped in bright gold. Binding and interiors are unmarked and as-new, all the pages are crisp and clean, no foxing. 5.25" x 7.5", 126 pages, many old b&w photographs reproduced. Three decades of research by the author led to this history of German Baptists in the USA and Canada.