Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. vi + 294 pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board, frontis, list of Biblical passages, indexes of authors. An important and scarce scholarly survey. Spine and outer edges of boards lightly faded, boards very slightly bowed, corners bumped..... More
New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover w/ dust jacket, 8vo, 286 pp, very good condition, green cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, slight tears on top of jacket, minor soiling to page edges. More
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, xxiv + 1020 pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, chapter index. Robert Graves, English novelist, man-of-letters, and expert on the Graeco-Roman aspects of primitive Christianity, collaborated with Joshua Podro, an expert on its Hebraeo-Aramaic aspects..... More
Teaneck, NJ: Johannes Greber Memorial Foundation, 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1937 edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 464 pp. Blue textured boards with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt cross on front cover, frontis portrait of Greber. Spine ends very slightly bruised, otherwise a sound and unmarked Near Fine copy in VG+..... More
Beckenham, Kent, England: T. W. Thornton, 1925. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 8pp. (inclusive of wrappers). Stapled wrappers. A sympathetic discussion of Spiritualism by a venerable Reverend Gentleman (then in his 95th year) based both on literary sources and his own personal observation. Vertical & horizontal creases from having been folded -..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Hardcover. Octavo. 298pp. Cream papered boards lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Slightest bumps to spine ends & corners of boards, previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, page-edges lightly age-toned, else a solid, clean VG copy (no dust jacket). More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 300pp. Blue textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Index. Spine ends slightly rubbed & faded, top-edge lightly browned, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket slightly rubbed, small bottom-edge..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xiv + 310pp. Papered boards, notes, biblio, index. From Stanford: "Rabbi and scholar David Greenstein offers the first examination of the "walking on the road" motif. Greenstein's original approach hones in on how this motif expresses the struggles with..... More
Stuttgart, Germany: Fr. Frommanns Verlag, 1956. First edition, German edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 348pp. Cream cloth lettered in black on spine & front board. German text. Index. Red-&-black frontis & plate. B/w text illustrations. Fold-out b/w plate at rear. Faint mark to rear board, several pages lightly age-toned, several numbers in..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xxxii + 508 pp + iv adverts. Original blue cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine. Along with a number of written works, Christian scholar Charles Guignebert ( 1867 - 1939 ) lectured extensively on Christian history..... More
London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, ND ( circa 1940 ?). New Edition, edited and revised. Hardcover. Small 8vo. xii + 372pp. Red cloth with black title, etc. to spine and front cover, index. A work of Christian prophecy and eschatology, by Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910), Irish born protestant evangelist and..... More
Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1896. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, (iv) 88 pp. Original red cloth with black title, etc. to spine. Cloth darkened at edges and spine, corners bumped, corners and spine ends rubbed, endpapers unevenly browned. Overall a sound and unmarked VG copy. Scarce. More
Watford, Herts. UK: The Pure Thought Press, 1933 - 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. [iv] [index] + 288pp. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontisportrait, index. Bound collection of the first volume of twelve issues of this scarce periodical which includes essays by various authors..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1911. Hardcover. Large octavo. xlii + 208pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fraying to cloth at spine ends, some tiny white specks on spine, page-edges browned, spine slightly discolored, pencilled annotation on front free endpaper, else a solid near-VG copy (no..... More
Chichester, Sussex, England: The Science of Thought Press, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 128pp. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered on spine. Boards bowed, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket faintly discolored, short bottom-edge tear to front panel). More
New York, NY: The Seabury Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 138pp. Green papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Slight lean to spine, top-edge foxed, otherwise a clean & tight VG copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket slightly rubbed & discolored). More
Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1973. Hardcover. Octavo.192pp. Silver papered boards lettered on spine, blind-stamp-lettered on front board. Index. Top-edge slightly discolored, else a clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket price-clipped, lightly rubbed, short tear at top of spine). More
London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1895. Fifth edition, Revised. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 422pp. + 14pp. ads. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fold-out map. B/w llustrations. Index. Some pages unopened. Ex-library copy - slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, shelf number on spine, page-edges..... More
London: C. J. Clay / Cambridge University Press, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii] + 84pp. Original green cloth gilt lettered on spine. James Rendel Harris (1852 – 1941 was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Privately printed, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 94pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Top-edge-gilt. B/w frontis. & plates. Title on front board reads: "Proposed Removal to Philadelphia of the Remains of William Penn. Distributed by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania." Page-edges browned..... More
Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 1995. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 494pp. Gray cloth lettered in silver on spine. Fore-edges of pages slightly discolored, thin strip down fore-edge of front free endpaper slightly rough (offsetting from front pastedown), marginal annotations & underlining to text to several pages throughout, otherwise a solid..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co, Inc., 1993. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 518pp. Black cloth spine over gray papered boards, gilt device to upper board and gilt lettering to spine, notes, bibliography and index. B&w illustrations. From the current publisher: "A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911, 1912. First Edition. Hardcovers. Small thick quartos. Two volume set. Vol.I: xii + 936pp.; Vol.II: xiv + 912pp. Original decorated cloth lettered in gilt on spines. Two-page color frontis. map in Vol.I. Spine ends chafed & slightly fraying, light wear to extremities, page-edges..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Hardcovers. Small thick quartos. Two volume set. Vol.I: xiv + 730pp.; Vol.II: xii + 724pp. Original decorated cloth lettered in gilt on spines. Spine ends chafed, small tears to cloth at top of spine of Vol.II, spine lettering dulled on Vol.II..... More
London: Williams & Norgate, 1895. Hardcovers. Octavos. The first two volumes (only) of four volumes. Vol.I: xxviii + 216pp.; Vol.II: viii + 240pp. Original cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Spine ends chafed, spines & boards marked & rubbed, small cloth snag to spine of Vol.I, slight wax residue on front board..... More
