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Patton, Kenneth L.
The Sense of Life. The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural
Religion.
Ridgewood, New Jersey: Meetinghouse Press, 1974. 262 pages.
'This book is a poetic survey of the meaning and mysticism of naturalistic and
humanistic religion and its way of life.' The author spent 30 years in the
Unitarian Universalist ministry. - Rear cover. Good stiff pictorial wrappers
(soft cover), covers and edges slightly rubbed. #24738. $15
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Patton, Kenneth L.
All Blessedness. A Book of Psalms.
Ridgewood, New Jersey: Meetinghouse Press, 1975. 234 pages.
'This book is a celebration of life in 670 psalms. The faith celebrated is
religious naturalism and humanism.' The author was a Unitarian Universalist
minister. - Rear cover. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #24737. $15
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Peale, Norman Vincent, and Smiley
Blanton.
The Art of Real Happiness.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950. 3d printing. vi, 246 pages. Signed on front
flyleaf by Norman Vincent Peale.
Good hardcover, edges and corners rubbed; some stains in the margins of 5-14
not affecting text; dampstains on lower corners of some rear pages and inside
rear cover; former owner's name in ink on front flyleaf. #25642. $35
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Pesch, Christiano.
Compendium Theologiae Dogmaticae. Tomus IV: De Sacramentis.
Friburgi Brisgoviae: Herder & Co, 1926. Editio Tertia ab Auctore Recognita. x,
307 pages. Index.
Good hardcover, spine and edges sunned. Small colored felt-tip mark on top
edge. Pencil notations in text and margins throughout. #23447. $27.50
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Peters, Madison C.
The Jews in America: A Short Story of Their Part in The
Building of the Republic. Commemorating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth
Anniversary of Their Settlement.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1905.
Small 8vo. 138 pages. Photographs (Portraits).
Green decorative cloth hardcover binding. Edges and spine slightly worn.
#22159. $20
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Piehl, Mel.
Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic
Radicalism in America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. 1st printing. xv, 296 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket.
Small name stamp inside front
and rear covers, small gift inscription on blank front flyleaf.
ISBN 0877222576. #22822. $15
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Robertson, Dorothy.
Essence of Sidereal Hindu Astrology.
New Colony, Srikakulam, India: Bharat Astrology Institute, 1971. 1st edition.
188 pages.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. #23890. $25
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Robson, Roy R.
Old Believers in Modern Russia.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. xiii, 188 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0875802052. #20763.
$35
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Roche, John A.
The Life of John Price Durbin, D.D., LL.D., with An Analysis of
His Homiletic Skills and Sacred Oratory.
Introduction by Randolph S. Foster. New York: Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati:
Cranston & Stowe, 1890. xviii, 369 pages. Portraits.
Biography of a Methodist Episcopal clergyman. Very good decorative hardcover.
#25794. $45
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Sahula-Dycke, Ignatz.
The God Business: Polemic Essays about Religion and Its Effect
on Western Behavior.
Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, 1973. 1st edition. 96 pages. Review slip
laid in from Libra Publishers. An Exposition-University Book. Why has the
Christian ethic failed? Why is it still deemed beyond reproach? How can man
improve the situation? - Front dust jacket.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0682477834. #23709.
$27.50
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Sarlin, Naomi.
Jewish Communities of the East.
New York: Jewish Education Department of Hadassah, Women's Zionist
Organization, 1978. 4to (medium-large book). 109 pages. Bibliography.
Illustrations.
Includes chapter on Jews of North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya,
Egypt, Iran, the Moslem areas of the USSR (Caucasia, Soviet Central Asia). Very
good stiff stapled pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24900. $15
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Schiavo, Giovanni.
Italian-American History. Volume II: The Italian Contribution
to the Catholic Church in America.
New York: Vigo Press, 1949. 1st American edition. Volume 2 only. viii, 1056
pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations.
'The present volume deals with the activities of religious men and women of
Italian birth or extraction in what is now the territory of the United States.
A brief summary is also given of Italian religious activities in the West
Indies and in Mexico before the Declaration of Independence...The second part
of the volume [deals] with the history of Italian parishes.' - Foreword.
Exlibrary. Stamps on top and bottom edges, small label on spine, stamps and
labels inside front and rear cover and on front and rear flyleaves. Good
hardcover. #23229. $20
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Sessler, Jacob John.
Communal Pietism among Early American Moravians.
New York: Henry Holt, 1933. 265 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations.
Frontispiece portrait.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. #24827. $25
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Snow, Elson B.
100 Years of Jodo Shinshu Literature, 1899-1999.
San Francisco, California: Busshari Press, 1998. 10, [1] pages. Photograph.
Illustration.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #26066. $15
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Steinberg, John.
The Existential God. A Drama, Allegories and Short Stories.
New York: Vantage Press, 1975. 1st edition. 142 pages.
'The author asks many question that are plaguing man today. Through allegory,
story, and experience he builds up his faith that God, acting through Jesus
Christ, is willing to preserve us, if we will only let Him. His most graphic
build-up of that faith is his moving story of [German] POW's in Russia in the
Second World War.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good dust
jacket. ISBN 0533015936. #23197. $25
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Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro.
A Miscellany on the Shin Teaching of Buddhism.
Kyoto: Shinshu Otaniha Shumbusho, 1949. 12mo (small book). 151 pages.
'This Miscellany contains such articles of the author's as pertain to the
elucidation of some points in the teaching of the Shin school of Buddhism and
also a translation of Shinran's Songs in Praise of Amitabha and of Kakunyo's
Steadily Holding to the Faith, which is one of the most important Shin tracts.'
- Preface by Suzuki. Very good hardcover. #21874. $55
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Turner, Esther Wilson.
Memory Work and Drills Visualized.
Oakland, California: The Eye-Method Publishing Company, 1927. 31 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Music.
'While all the material is suitable for the Junior age, much of it can be used
for the Primary or Intermediate age.' - Foreword. Very good stiff wrappers
(soft cover). #23111. $35
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Vimadalal, Jal Rustamji.
What a Parsee Should Know.
Bombay: Jal Rustamji Vimadalal, 1967. For Private Circulation Only. 12mo (small
book). 58 pages.
Chapters include: The Life of Zarathushtra, the Sacred Fire, Parsees: Their
Origin and Sects, Festival Days of the Parsees, Our Holy Prayers, Hamkars, The
Zarathushtrian Philosophy of Life. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover).
Pencil underlining and marginalia. #23509. $50
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Yakumo, Chijun.
Eight-Cloud Thoughts on Buddha-Dharma.
No Place: Chijun Yakumo, 1988. 29 pages.
The author is a Jodo-Shinsu minister. Good wrappers (soft cover), front cover
has water stains, not affecting text. #26064. $15
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Wan, Hiu, Ven.
Revelation from Ch'an Practice, Ch'an Paintings. Coedition.
Taipei, Taiwan: Yuan Ch'uan Press, 1992. 91 pages. Color and black-and-white
plates.
Text in English. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26320.
$30
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Weiss, Abner, Rabbi.
Death and Bereavement: A Halakhic Guide.
Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing House; New York: The Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America, 1991. xxiv, 404 pages. Index.
Includes detailed halakhic checklists, as well as prayers and halakhic material
not easily available elsewhere, including recitations at the hospital, the
cemetery and the hours of mourning, and forms for a halakhic last will and
testament, and for sale of one's business during aninut. - Rear cover. Very
good large trade paperback (soft cover). ISBN 0881251275. #25622. $25
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Wheeler, Henry.
The Apostles' Creed: An Examination of Its History and An
Exposition of Its Contents.
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1912. 200 pages. Bibliography. Inscribed to his
daughter, dated, and signed in pencil by the author on the blank front flyleaf.
Very good hardcover. Unrelated gift inscription inside front cover. #24122.
$40
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White, Mary de G.
The Union of Sex & Spirit: A Cross Cultural Symposium with
Performances Presented by Cauldron Productions, St. Peter's Church, 619
Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, NYC, Saturday, February 6, 1993.
Executive Director: Mary de G. White. Graphic Design: Carol Waag. Stage
manager: Laura Zambrano. Photographer: Betty de G. Moore. Exhibition Artist:
Peter Julian. New York: Cauldron Productions / House Publication Service, 1993.
181 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Slightly worn stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25011. $35
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Whitehead, James D., and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead.
Shadows of the Heart: A Spirituality of the Negative Emotions.
New York: Crossroad, 1994. viii, 205 pages. Index. Bibliography.
The book explores the positive potential hidden in anger, guilt, shame, and
depression. The book's key conviction: our bad feelings can be good news,
alerting us to endangered values, alarming us to hope under siege, and arming
us for the tough tasks of change, in a Christian context. - Drawn from the
front dust jacket panel. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0824514416. #22525. $27.50
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Wise, Michael, Norman Golb, John J.
Collins, and Dennis G. Pardee, editors.
Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the
Khirbet Qumran Site. Present Realities and Future Prospects.
New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994. 1st printing. xiii, 514 pages.
Index. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences, 722.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0897667948. #22966.
$20
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Wright, Theon.
The Open Door: A Case History of Automatic Writing.
New York: John Day Company, 1970. 352 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the
author. Inscription reads: 'To Edna, (and, on second thought, to Wesley also,
although I know he won't read it). I hope this opens the door a little bit
more. If you have any questions, don't ask me--ask Betty. She's on much better
terms with the folks upstairs than I am. All I do is write what they tell me to
write. Love, 'T'. Blue Point [N.Y.], 5/28/71.'
'The major step toward realizing in ourselves the awesome power to communicate
with nonphysical personalities.' Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in
slightly worn, frayed and torn dust jacket. #23712. $60
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Yearly Meeting.
Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New York
for the State of New-York, and Parts Adjacent, as Revised and Adopted, in The
Sixth Month, 1810.
New York: Printed by Samuel Wood & Sons, 1826. 105, [3] pages. Shaw & Shoemaker
24640.
Good hardcover, worn calf leather binding, spine cracked and chipped. #16091.
$30
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Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb.
Genesis: The Beginning of Desire.
Philadelphia & Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society, 1995. 1st edition. xix,
456 pages. Index. Bibliography.
'...her meditations magically weave together biblical, midrashic, and literary
sources into a seamless tapestry. A charismatic teacher and a Cambridge
scholar, Zornberg draws upon her background, steeped in Jewish knowledge and
western literature, to create a rare synthesis of Jewish and European
intellectual history.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in very good
dust jacket. ISBN 0827605218. #23550. $30
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