Search Results: Social Gospel from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1949. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. (21cm); light green cloth covered boards, titled in purple on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 334pp. Corners and spine ends lightly nudged; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 8/6 net) with short tears and nicks to the extremities; slight shade of toning to spine; Very Good+. "This book is an attempt to interweave the incidents and details of the life of Christ as told in the four gospels into one continuous narrative. It is the first of it's kind since it is also written in modern colloquial English so that the whole reads like a present-day biography." (from the rear panel).

Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1940. First Edition. Large octavo. Original printed thick-paper wrappers; xvii, 450pp. Mild external toning and wear, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title, dated 1956. McColgan a Catholic priest from Boston; this was his doctoral dissertation, a scholarly study of the career of reformer and social welfare advocate Joseph Tuckerman. Uncommon.