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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 (regular size). 138 pages.
Photographs (Portraits).
Green decorative cloth hardcover binding. Edges and spine slightly worn.
#22159. $20
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Remey, Charles Mason.
The Universal Consciousness of the Baha'i Revelations. A Brief
Treatise Introductory to the Study of the Baha'i Religion. [Bahai].
Firenze, Italia: Printed by Tipografia Sordomuti, 1925. 12mo (small book). 60
pages. Index.
Fair hardcover. Exlibrary, small piece of tape on spine; textblock has
separated from the binding; stamps on front cover, blank front flyleaf, and on
page 55; number in ink on bottom of Foreword page; circulation slip on rear
flyleaf, and small tear in rear flyleaf; pages browning along edges. #28003.
$160
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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.
$20
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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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Schmalenbach, Th.
Stille halbe Stunden.
Vorrede [von] J. A. Bengel. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann, 1878. Dritter Abdruck [3d
printing]. 16mo (small book). 103 pages. On spine: 'Schmalenbach, Stille halbe
Stunden. 1'.
Text in German. Very good hardcover. Minor soiling on a few pages. #18807.
$35
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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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Simpson, M. E. (Mary E.).
Sunray Lessons in Divine Science.
Los Angeles, California: De Vorss & Co., 1935. Small 8vo. 75 pages. On title
page: 'By M. E. Simpson in Christchurch, New Zealand'.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover); edges slightly sunned and worn; dampstain on
inside and outside lower rear cover; some underlining with red pencil. #27910.
$90
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Siri, Joseph (Giuseppe), Cardinal.
Gethsemane: Reflections on the Contemporary Theological
Movement.
Chicago, Illinois: Franciscan Herald Press, in Cooperation with Editions de la
Fraternite de la Tres Sainte Vierge Marie, Rome, Italy, 1981. 377 pages.
Bibliographical references.
Very good hardcover, some pencil marginalia and yellow underlining.
ISBN 0819908258. #26854. $85
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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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Steiner, Rudolf.
At the Gates of Spiritual Science. Fourteen Lectures Given in
Stuttgart, 22 August to 4 September, 1906.
Revised translation by E. H. G. and C. D. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1970.
158 pages. Bibliographical references.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket; dust jacket spine rubbed.
ISBN 0854402268. #27751. $25
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Steiner, Rudolf.
Education as a Social Problem. Six Lectures by Rudolf Steiner,
Dornach, August 9-17, 1919.
Foreword by Doris M. Bugbey. New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1969. xi, 113
pages. Bibliographical references.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket; label stains on rear flyleaf.
#27752. $20
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Steiner, Rudolf.
The Younger Generation: Educational and Spiritual Impulses for
Life in the Twentieth Century. Thirteen Lectures, Stuttgart, October 3-15,
1922.
Spring Valley, New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1976. Reprinted. ix, 179 pages.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #27567. $20
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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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Valentin, Hugo.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
New York: Viking Press, 1936? 19 pages. A Chapter from 'Antisemitism,
Historically and Critically Examined,' by Hugo Valentin, published by the
Viking Press, 1936.
Chapter title: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Greatest Forgery of the
Century. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover); covers slightly sunned and soiled.
#27911. $15
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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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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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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 notation inside front cover. #24122.
$40
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Wickeri, Philip L.
Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, the
Three-Self Movement, and China's United Front.
Preface by Richard Shaull. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1988. xxviii, 356
pages. Index. Bibliography.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket; pencil underlining and
marginalia. ISBN 0883444410. #28434. $90
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Wimmer, R.
My Struggle for Light: Confessions of a Preacher.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. London: Williams and Northgate, 1903. 12mo
(small book). 216 pages. Crown Theological Library, 3.
Good hardcover; blue cloth with gilt title and seal; foxing throughout. #27925.
$22.50
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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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World Jain Confederation.
Kshamapana & Sadbhavana. Kshamapana-Sadbhavana Celebration Day
and Inter-Faith Seminar Held by World Jain Confederation on Gandhi Jayanti 2nd
Oct 2002.
Mumbai: World Jain Confederation, 2003. 1st edition of 1000 copies. 71 pages.
Inscribed and signed by one of the speakers.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28504. $30
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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 [New York], 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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Yuyama, Akira.
Sanskrit Fragments of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvanasutra. I:
Koyasan Manuscript.
Tokyo: Reiyukai Library, 1981. 42, [3] pages. Studia Philologica Buddhica,
Occasional Paper Series, IV.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #27592. $30
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