Search Results: Titles starting with F from Tannery Books

Charlotte: Heritage House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Harold H. Fletcher, Faith of a Salesman, Charlotte, Heritage House, 1959, First. Green cloth with small pastedown title on front, thin 8vo, viii, 54 pp; transparent DJ. SIGNED by the author on title page. Poems about the road and spiritual life by a former Methodist pastor, member of High Point Friends (whose Quaker Men group sponsored publication), and interdenominational speaker, with foreward by Seth B. Hinshaw. Good/Fair: corners lightly worn, foxing on covers and eps, clean, unmarked except for author signature; DJ yellowed, large tear on spine and small chips and holes. Reduced, was 45.00

New York: Franklin Watts, 1971. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Pictorial covers, [vi] 66 pp with index, bw photos and illustrations. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: corners worn, sticker residue, pocket and minor markings. Printed in USA

Hertford: Religious Society of Friends, 1970. First printing. Paperback. Good +. Violet A. Rowe, The First Hertford Quakers, Hertford, England, Religious Society of Friends, 1970, First Printing. Glossy paper covers with red photograph and lettering on front, 84 pp, 8 plates of bw photos and document reproductions. History of the meeting, followed by biographical and genealogical summaries, sources, index. Good+: covers scuffed and scratched, no po markings. Printed in Great Britain

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 flag design. Visual history of Guilford County, North Carolina, through post-Civil War period, including postal system, railroads, Quakers, blockade runners, and Wilmington Salt Works. Prolific bw images include many stamps, letters and document examples. Good/Fair: corners rubbed, pages crisp, no markings; DJ scuffed and torn at top corner.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: corners lightly bumped, small scuff on spine and rear edge, po inscription on ffep, no internal markings, not an ex-lib.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: covers bumped with small tear on top edge, light foxing/tanning, no markings.

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 stickers and stamps, tape residue, markings throughout.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Hardcover. Fair. R. Turner Wilcox, Folk and Festival Costume of the World, Folk and Festival Costume of the World, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965, no earlier editions listed. Light brown cloth hc with man in costume on front, super 8vo, unnumbered (approx. 224 pp), contains 111 plates, each with multiple line drawings and facing page of text, showing traditional costumes of countries/continents from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia. Plate 103 shows examples of Mennonite, Shaker, Quaker, and Amish clothing. Fair/no DJ: Ex-library with tape residue and markings, spine cracked with threads peeling, corners worn, light foxing.

American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, 1912. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Mahalah Jay, Gilbert L. Farr, Melissa S. Fellow, et al. Foreign Mission Work of American Friends: A Brief History of Their Work from the Beginning to the Year Ninteen Hundred and Twelve. Each sketch prepared by the Board in Control. American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, 1912, First Printing. Navy blue cloth-covered hc with gilt-stamped title on spine, xvi, 256 pp with index, bw photographs, two maps pasted in between text pages. History of early American Friends (Quakers) foreign mission work including Mexico, Cuba, Africa, Jamaica, Alaska, Palestine, Japan, China and India, various yearly meetings. Good: covers scuffed and lightly rubbed, light bleedthrough around pages with photos. Copy 1 is ex-church-library with sticker on spine and plate/card pasted on endpapers, gilt worn off, minor markings (including location of cities on a map). Copy 2 has head and tail of spine worn and small stain on front edge, gilt… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1857. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Joseph John Gurney, Four Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity; Delivered in Southwark, 1834, to the Junior Members of the Society of Friends, Philadelphia, Henry Longstreth, 1857, Second American Edition. Brown cloth hc with blind-stamped floral design, 12mo (15 cm), 176 pp. Good/no DJ: Ex-library with markings and pocket, corners worn, tape over spine, pages foxed with dampstain on edges, no apparent user markings.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library/good. O. A. Sherrard, Freedom From Fear: The Slave and His Emancipation, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1961, First American Edition. Light brown cloth hc with chained man on cover and orange text block on spine, brown endpapers, 200 pp with index and bibliiography; orange and white illustrated dustjacket. Part One is the history of slavery, from ancient civilizations to the English colonies. Part Two is a history of emancipation, including English activists and a chapter on Quakers. Good (ex-lib)/Good: ex-library with stickers and stamps and tape damage, no apparent underlining; DJ faded and wearing with spine sticker and price sticker residue, clipped.

Philadelphia: Kite & Walton, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Edited by Robert Smith, The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, Vol. XIX, Philadelphia, printed by Kite & Walton, Ninth Month 27, 1845 to Ninth Month 19, 1846, First Edition. Weekly issues bound in half leather over marbled boards, 4to (28 cm), [vi with index] 414 pp. Articles include an 1842 Rocky Mountains expedition (beginning missing), reprints of early 18th-century letters, "Indian Medical Practice," "The Great Fire in New York," "Glimpses of New Zealand," "Crossing the Atlantic" in the steamer Great Western, report from "Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans," "Slave Trade," and many more. Posted 1884 postcard laid in. Fair: covers worn and stained with spine chipping, title and index pp loose, 4 pp of issue no. 1 missing (other pp numbered out of order), numbers 25 and 31 damaged (loose, with loss), many closed tears, po marking p. 305.

Philadelphia: Kite & Walton, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Good. The Friend: Religious and Literary Journal, Vol. XXV, Philadelphia, printed by Kite & Walton, Ninth Month 20, 1851 to Ninth Month 11, 1852, First Edition. Weekly issues bound in half leather over marbled boards, 4to (28 cm), [vi with index] 414 pp. Articles include Assyrian archaeology and the ruins of Nineveh, "Richard Shackleton's Letters," "The Minot Rock Lighthouse," the search for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic, world disasters and local weather, slavery, destruction of the whale-ship Ann Alexander by a sperm whale, "Pompeii," an expedition to Khartoum, obituaries, and much more. Good: covers well worn with spine title plate missing, minor po markings throughout with more extensive scribbling on endpapers, closed tears and some misbound edges with no loss, numbers 33-34 and 36 very tanned.

Richmond, Ind.: The Friends Publication Board, 1923. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Walter C. Woodward, Friendly Tales of Foreign Trails, Richmond, Ind., The Friends Publication Board, 1923, First printing. Blue cloth hc, small 8vo, [x] 234 pp. Tales of an American Quaker group traveling through Europe. Ex-library (Good)/no DJ: ex-library with stickers and minor markings, covers bumped and wearing, light foxing on some margins.

North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Seth Bennett Hinshaw, Friends Worship Today: Contemporary Concepts and Practices, North Carolina Yearly Meeting and North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1991. Glossy blue paper covers with white lettering, 8vo, 124 pp. Very Good: lightly bumped, light crease on back cover, crisp, no markings.

Back Creek Friends Meeting, N.C. Friends Historical Society, N.C. Yearly Meeting, 1993. First edition. Paperback. New. Barbara N. Grigg and Myrle L. Walker, Friends at Back Creek - Into the Third Century; Back Creek Friends Meeting, N.C. Friends Historical Society, N.C. Yearly Meeting; 1993, First Edition. Cream paper covers with sepia photo on front, 8vo, 112 pp with index, 14 bw photos plus illustrations and map. "A history of one of the oldest meetings (250 years old) in central North Carolina. Located in Randolph County, early members of this meeting came from Perquimans and Pasquotank counties and from Pennsylvania." The "Early Families" chapter includes Andrew Hoover, Thomas Winslow, Jedidiah and Jesse Hussey, Thomas Lowe, and Nixon. A few other biographies in later chapters. New: direct from the publisher; one copy has a tiny spot above the title.

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.

Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Ed. William Evans, Thomas Evans. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treaties, and Other Writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, Vol. XI. Philadelphia, Joseph Rakestraw, 1847, First Edition. This volume contains "The lives of Samuel Neale; Mary Neale; John Burnyeat; Catharine Phillips; Memoirs of William Crouch; Letters, &c. of early Friends; Memoirs of Elizabeth Collins; Thomas Aldam; William Ames; and Samuel Fisher." Catharine Phillips [Peyton] was an English Quaker minister who wrote of her travels in rural, colonial America. Full leather with title and volume blocks on spine, 4to, iv, 480 pp. Good: covers scuffed and worn, ffep torn, light dampstains and foxing, contains po markings.

Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1849. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. [Arthur Helps] Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon, Boston, James Munroe & Company, 1849, American edition. Dark brown cloth hc with blind-stamped floral border, small 8vo (18 cm), 236 pp. Fair: covers detached and part of spine missing, po name on endpapers, light pencil corrections on front matter.

Francestown, N.H.: The Golden Quill Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Winifred Rawlins, fire Within, Francestown, N.H., The Golden Quill Press, 1959, First Printing (many poems previously published in periodicals). Quarter redcloth over mottled cloth boards, slim 12mo (19 cm), 76 pp. Poems on a variety of topics including science and astronomy, hospital (dying), business, etc. Good/no DJ: ex-library with stickers, stamps and minor markings.