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Greensboro: Centre Friends Meeting, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. New. Kay Davis Coltrane, Centre Friends: The Legacy of the Meeting on the Hill, Greensboro, N.C., Centre Friends Meeting, 2008, First Printing (500 copies). Hardcover with illustration of meeting house on the front, 4to (28 cm), 408 pp. History of colonial American Quakers and settlement at Centre Friends Meeting in… Read more

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, ca. 1888. Reprint. Leather_bound. Fair. Bound collection of 43 tracts, Philadelphia, Tract Association of Friends, undated reprints [ca. 1887-1888]. Leather hc with gilt-stamped 'Friends' Tracts' in black title box on spine, 8vo (18 cm), individually paginated. Forty-three selections from the first 97 tracts published by the Tract Association, memoirs of John Woolman, Caroline… Read more

Philadelphia: William H. Pile, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Joseph Edgerton, Some Account of the Life and Religious Services of Joseph Edgerton, a Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends. With Extracts from His Correspondence. Compiled from original manuscripts by his daughter Eunice Thomasson. Philadelphia, William H. Pile, 1885, First Edition. Brown cloth hc with gilt-stamped… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1831. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. John Kendall, Letters on Religious Subjects, Written By Divers Friends, Deceased. Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1831, Two volumes in one [Second Edition - Smith Vol. 2, p. 55]. Smith: "The Letters in this Collection are by John Rutty, Catharine Payton, Samuel Forthergill, Sophia Hume, John Churchman, Dr. John Fothergill, Richard Shackleton,… Read more

London: Harvey and Darton, 1829. Hardcover. Fair. John Churchman, An Account of the Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of John Churchman, London, Harvey and Darton, 1829, later edition [Smith, p. 408]. Plain brown paper boards, 12mo (19 cm), viii, 316 uneven cut pp. Fair: front board detached and spine missing, interior good, no markings.

Philadelphia: Friends' Book-Store. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Isaac Penington, Letters of Isaac Penington - An Eminent Minister of the Gospel in The Society of Friends Which He Joined About the Year 1658. Philadelphia, Friends' Book-Store, from the Second London Edition [after 1828 - Smith, p. 359]. Brown cloth hc with simple blind-stamped borders and gilt titling on spine,… Read more

Warrington: Thomas Hurst, 1840. Leather_bound. Fair. John Woolman, James Cropper, Bernard Barton, A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North America, To Which Are Added, His Last Epistle, and Other Writings. Warrington, Thomas Hurst, 1840, later edition… Read more

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Elizabeth Gray Vining, Flora - A Biography, Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966, First printing. Tan cloth over gray paper boards with red title block on spine, 8vo (21 cm), 208 pp, illustrated; orange and white dustjacket with portraits on front and back. Fair: ex-library with… Read more

Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sally Wister, edited by Albert Cook Myers. Sally Wister's Journal, A True Narrative, Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777-1778. With Reproductions of Portraits, Manuscripts, Relics and Views. Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach, 1902, First Printing. Yellow cloth hc with dark-blue cover… Read more

The Queen Anne Press, 1994. Paperback. Very good +. Kenneth Carroll; Three Hundred Years and More of Third Haven Quakerism, With an Appendix: An Architectural History of Third Haven Meetinghouse by Orlando Ridout V; The Queen Anne Press (printed by Reese Press, Baltimore, Md.), 1984. Glossy green paper covers with meeting house image on front, tall, slim 8vo… Read more

Greensboro, 1997. Later printing. Paperback. New. J. Floyd Moore, Friends in the Carolinas, Greensboro, Tercentenary Celebration Steering Committee with North Carolina Friends Historical Society and North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1997. Illustrated gray paper covers, stapled 8vo pamphlet (21 cm), 48 pp. New.

Greensboro: Greensboro Printing Company, 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/fair. A. Earl Weatherly, The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford - 1771-1871, Greensboro, by the author (Greensboro Printing Company), 1972, First Printing. Green cloth hc with silver-stamped title and flag design on front, 4to (25 cm), 208 pp with index; silver and white dustjacket with blue lettering and matching… Read more

Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1795. Leather_bound. Poor. [ed. Lindley Murray] Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb. With an Appendix Containing an Account of the Schools at Ackworth and York, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from many of her Letters. Trenton, Isaac Collins, 1795, first American edition (Smith pp 876-877 and supplement p. 168).… Read more

Philadelphia, 1849. Later printing. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, in Some of the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion: To Which Is Prefixed A Brief Account of the Rise of the Society. Philadelphia, for sale at Friends' Book Store, 1849, later printing. Full leather hc with black leather… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1831. First American Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Joseph Gurney Bevan, Memoirs of the Life of Isaac Penington; to Which is Added A Review of His Writings, Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1831, third state (first American – Smith, p. 261). Biographies of early Friend and prolific writer Isaac Penington and his wife Mary, followed by reprinted selections of… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1829. Leather_bound. Good. A Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Richard Jordan, A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, Late of Newton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1829 [probable first American, this edition missing in Smith]. Full leather hc with black leather title block on spine, 12mo… Read more

Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1828. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Principally Selected from their Early Writings. Philadelphia, Kimber & Sharpless and Thomas Kite, 1828, Second Edition (Smith, p. 579). Full leather hc with red leather… Read more

Philadelphia, 1893. Hardcover. Fair. Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Eastern Parts of Maryland, Stereotype Edition, Philadelphia, 1893. Brown cloth hc with gilt-stamped titling on spine and blind-stamped borders, small 8vo (19 cm), [i]-viii, [9]-[208] pp with extensive index. Good to Fair: corners bumped and spine cracked, po… Read more

New Bedford: Edmund Anthony, 1856. Revised Edition. Leather_bound. Fair. Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting, Held on Rhode Island, for New England, New Bedford, [New England Yearly Meeting] Edmund Anthony, printer (originally Abraham Shearman, Jun.), 1856. Full leather hc with rolled borders and edges, xvi with index, 154 pp. Fair: front cover detached, spine missing, po names,… Read more

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library/good. Daisy Newman, Indian Summer of the Heart, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1982, First Printing. Quarter white cloth over gray paper boards, 8vo (21 cm), [viii] 376 pp. Fair/Good: ex-library with markings, covers scuffed with tape residue, spine skewed; DJ bumped with small edge tears, spine sticker, unclipped price. Inscribed by author… Read more