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Irvington, NJ: Published by the Author, 1950. Paperback. Good. Staple-bound book, 8.75 x 6 in.; pp. [2], iv, 109, [1]; 11 illustrations including two maps and drawings by Janis, William James, and Frank S Mizer; 54 pages are a two-column roster list of all American POWs at Stalag Luft IV. Orange and black printed paper wrappers; first four leaves with shallow chips two edges, center two conjoined leaves separated but present, text clean, good. An account of POW life during WWII. Janis was a crewman on the B-17 My Devotion. He describes his capture, intake, camp life, the food, creative pursuits, mail, economy, the black march, and liberation with succinctness and humor.5 copies in OCLC.

London: Elliot Stock, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, large paper copy, limited to 50 of an edition of 550 copies, 10 x 8 in.; pp. xiv, 64, [2]; four plates in two states for a total of 8 plates, plus text illustrations; quarter roan over green cloth, gilt title on spine; spine rubbed and faded, corners bumped, text clean, library stamp on upper pastedown, very good. Includes a three-page ALS and envelope tipped in to flyleaf, from Charles P. of London to William H. Lambert of Philadelphia. Lambert was a notable collector of Thackeray and Lincoln, and was first president of The Lincoln Fellowship. The letter refers to books received and requested from the U. S.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. cloth. Very good. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 975, [1]; full green cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; spine ends rubbed, upper hinge cracked, text clean and sound.Samuel Jonson (1822-1882) was a Transcendental Unitarian, rationalist preacher and accomplished writer and speaker. "The motive to this study, as he says, was neither theological nor controversial, but to show through the ethical and spiritual import of the older civilizations the unity of human experience and to do justice to the spiritual nature common to humanity that speaks in differing faiths." (Harvard Square Library) However, he had no direct experience with Eastern religion, and his magnum opus, Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion, depended entirely on secondary sources and imagination. He published his first book on the series, India, in 1872, China in 1877, and the final volume, on Persia, was published posthumously in 1885.