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San Francisco: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee of One Hundred, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 5" x 7 3/4"; pp. [10, 9-119, [3]; original textured blue boards; gilt title; few small spots to covers; head of spine slightly indented; minor foxing along edges of pages, mostly very clean; gilt title to spine with some rubbing; two portraits frontis - Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, President of the Committee of One Hundred and Rev. H. H. Bell, author of the book and Executive Secretary of the Committee of One Hundred; very good to near fine condition. Inscribed by author to his son, Russell H. Bell. The Committee of One Hundred was appointed by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America to plan the religious activities during the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The project was a vast undertaking of spreading Christian Evangelism and giving notable religious significance to the Exposition. It was said that: "Evil… Read More

New York: American Bible Society, 1854. Hardcover. Good. Original full morocco with elaborate blind-stamped decorations; gilt title to spine; 12mo; pp. [5], 6-670, [2]; dust-dulling and a few small spots to boards; rubbing to edges of boards and spine; minor marginal loss to paper of both pastedowns; moderate foxing; text in two columns (German-English). Overall in good condition.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Hardcover. Good. pp. 335; original brown boards with gilt title and decorations to spine; relatively minor wear to covers; corners show some signs of rubbing; a few discolored spots to spine; some wear to head and tail of spine; bookshop blind stamp (no ink) to second free page; pages clean except a few small spots of soiling to first several of them; beginning of every chapter decorated with steel-engraved illuminated border. An important compilation of prayers through the ages, containing more than 300 prayers for communion with God, praise, old age and sickness, working prayers, death, etc. The book also contains a chapter on instructions, concerning praying and even some entries of Heathen and Mohammedan prayers.