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Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ex library with the usual markings. Light wear and soiling to covers. Binding remains sound. Number 289 of 400 copies. Signed by the author on the limitation page. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 188 pages; Signed by Author .

First edition #18 of 400 signed copies. A fine copy

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. 188pp. Quarto [29 cm] Rust colored cloth with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine. Lacks the glassine jacket. This edition was limited to 400 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 340. " The diary of the Reverend Alexander Taylor Rankin are of intense interest, for he was in eastern Kansas during the Jefferson Territory days. Dr. Rankin met the challenge of a stern duty as a missionary on the uncomfortable frontier and in the lawless settlements of the West. He was dedicated to religious service to the week, the sinful, and the outcast, where there was no law or order, where life in most cases was corrupt and vicious, and where nearly every man was his own law." - Foreword.

MUMEY, Nolie. Alexander Taylor Rankin (1803-1885). His Diary and Letters, A Pioneer Minister Who Fought Lawlessness With Religion on the Prairies of Eastern Kansas and the Frontier Settlements of Denver Where Life Was Harsh and Brutal. Boulder, 1966. 1st ed. Frontis. portr. three illus. 188pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Limited to 400 copies signed by Mumey.

Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is Number 64 of 400 copies signed by the editor. Quarto: 188 p. with a frontispiece and 3 illustrations. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy. This account of Rankin's pioneering missionary work in eastern Kansas and Colorado on the eve of the Civil War that emerges from his journal and letters is one of the few first-hand narratives of home missionary activity in the Trans-Mississippi West to be published to date. (Most are personal memoirs published long after the fact or posthumous biographies compiled by family members.) A native of Tennessee, Rankin pastored Presbyterian churches in Ohio, Indiana, and upstate New York before being called by the Old School Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions in 1859 to serve as one of its two home missionaries in Kansas Territory. For the next 16 months, Rankin traveled thousands of miles to establish more than a dozen new churches, deliver… Read More

Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good DJ. One Of 400 Signed And Numbered Copies Copies. Fine In Good "Spiderweb" Glassine Dj, No Names Or Marks.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. Limited Edition of 400 copies; immaculate and tight; photograph of Rev. Rankin on frontispiece; heavy-weight cream colored pages; deckled edges; gilt lettering and design on mahogany-cloth binding; no dust jacket; 188pp. including index. Wynar/Depp 9140.. Signed by Author. Limited Edition, #198/400. Mahogany Cloth . Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. Limited Edition of 400 copies; immaculate and tight; photograph of Rev. Rankin on frontispiece; heavy-weight cream colored pages; deckled edges; gilt lettering and design on mahogany-cloth binding; no dust jacket; 188pp. including index. Wynar/Depp 9140.. Signed by Author. Limited Edition, #335/400. Mahogany Cloth . Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. 4to. 188 pp. Original cloth; glassine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 355 of 400 copies signed. Wynar 9140.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 4to. Number 149 of a limited edition of 400 copies signed by the author. 488 pages. Cloth covers show scattered rubbing and darkening along edges and there are two, one inch, closed tears in cloth over front joint. Hinges (internal) are a little loose, though text block remains tight and well attached to covers. There are a few light smudges on blank front end page. Contents are otherwise very clean and intact.

Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Co., 1966. Limited Signed & Numbered . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 188pp.incl.index; HB brwn.w/gilt; some rub; ft.hinge cracked; clean,tight pgs. "A Pioneer Minister Who Fought Lawlessness with Religion on the Prairies of Eastern Kansas and the Frontier Settlements of Denver Where Life was Harsh and Brutal" Number 60 of 400 signed & numbered copies.

Boulder, Co.: Johnson Publishing Company, 1966. [10],188pp. Frontispiece and several in text illustrations. Quarto. Cloth. Fine in torn and tattered glassine dust jacket. From an edition of 400 copies signed and numbered by the author