Search Results: Religion from Quadrant Book Mart

Bethlehem, PA: Comenius Press. Paperback. Good-/None. Light brown softcover with black titling, edgeworn and chipped at head of spine. Front cover has marker blacking out writing at the top right corner. Interior is unmarked. Illustrated by B&W photos, including a foldout frontis of a Bluefields Junior High School class. 12mo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Published by the Christian Education Board of the Moravian Church in America. Moravian missions in mid-19th century to Eastern Nicaragua. 'While we make no claim to original discoveries, we hope that this first connected narrative in the English language of Moravian work and achievement in Nicaragua may be found helpful by our membership and church societies, and under the blessing of God may, at least in some measure, be instrumental in keeping alive the interest, which has been manifest in our congregations since the American… Read More

US: L. T. Myers, 1914. Hardcover. Fair+/None. 1914 Faded red cloth boards with black titling on front and with decoration on spine; spine is toned with age, and extremities are heavily worn. Part of rear interior hinge cracked with webbing showing. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges darkened. No dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Laid in are two original period post cards done in gelatin silver B&W photography of Billy Sunday: one posed with his family on the steps outside their home in Winona Lake, Indiana (by J. Inbody, Elkhart, IN); and the other of apparent congregants gathering outside Billy Sunday Tabernacle in Paterson, NJ, 1916 (by Modern Studios, Philadelphia, PA). Authorized Edition: 'This work contains the heart of Mr. Sunday's gospel message arranged by subjects, and is published by special agreement with him for the use of copyright… Read More

[Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: 1897], 1897. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Light green cloth boards with gilt picture and titling on front, moderately soiled, rubbed and faded, especially along edges and spine; front board is bowed. Binding is shaky, as front and back hinges are cracked, revealing webbing. Interior is unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. 10.5 x 6.75 oblong. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: 'It is the aim of the author of the following pages, by original drawings, descriptions, and quotations, to represent the Sunny Slopes of Earth and Eden, in a pictorial and popular manner, illustrating the first and second chapters of Genesis. There are twenty pictures, the last one representing The First Sabbath in Eden, and just before the fearful hint in the first word 'now' or 'but' in Gen. III, 1.' (-from the Preface). 20 B&W illustrations. [47] p. illus. 18 x 28 cm.

Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Co, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Medium blue boards with gilt titling on the spine and emblem on the front, lightly rubbed at extremities. Gilt page edges are bright but scratched a bit. Binding is sound. A single instance of pencil underling noted, else unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Former owner's address label to ffep. Two small adhesive residue marks to front and rear end papers, and a fingerprint smudge on title page. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: 'It was our intention, if possible, to include chapters dealing with the Spiritual and material Armageddon of the nation and the individual; the change from the old age or old Dispensation into the new, the Apex reached early in 1962 when the DRAMA IN THE HEAVENS took place as a result of the conjunction of five planets with the sun and… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Philip Sidersky, 1928. Fifth Edition. Paperback. Good+/None. Light brown staplebound softcover with black border and Jewish national flag on front, lightly soiled. Binding is sound. Interior unmarked. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Illustrated with a few B&W photographs. With a preface by Paul W. Rood. A concise description of the Passover and its meaning, concluding with his comments, including this fervent proclamation: 'How pathetic that my people should still be waiting, not knowing Messiah has come!', and a paragraph on Jesus at the Passover. The majority of this pamphlet is devoted to 'From Sinai to Calvary,' depicting the author's religious quest from childhood, from Russia to the U.S., '...I put down only a few of [my memories] for the glory of our Lord and as a testimony to both Jews and Gentiles.'

Baltimore: Men's Association of Brown Memorial Church, 1937. Hardcover. Good+/None. Signed. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on front, faded gilt on spine. Spine tail is chipped. Sewn binding is sound, if a bit wiggly at top front board. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the author, but not personalized, 'with sincere friendship'. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Upper pages dust dulled. Small 8vo. 5 3/8 x 7 3/4 ins. BOOK INFO: This series of sermons was preached in the church during the fall of 1936.... These are pastoral sermons, prepared with the pressing and varied needs of men and women in a city congregation constantly before the preacher's mind and in his heart. (-T. Guthrie Speers) Lord's prayer--Sermons, Sermons, American--20th century, Presbyterian Church--Sermons

Charleston, NC: Standard Printing Co., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/None. Signed. SIGNED by the author with a bible verse notation on FFEP. Orange cloth boards with blue titling on the front; corners rubbed and bumped. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Dustjacket is worn at edges. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Many B&W photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author/subject. 'This is Pat's story--the autobiography not of a self-made man but of one who courted self-destruction and was rescued by providential intervention in order that he might live to do for others what had been done for him--the story of a unique and dynamic personality whose zeal is not for making money but for remaking men.' (-from the Foreword by John J. Cornwell, General Counsel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company).

Citta? del Vaticano: Libreria editrice vaticana, 1981. Hardcover. Good+/None. Light green cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine, rear bottom corner and front side edge bumped. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp to half-title and title pages. Binding is sound. Bottom corners of pages dogeared, pp. 1237-1255. Two instances of underlining noted. Bibliography: p. xiii.

New York: American Tract Society. Paperback. Fair/None. Original paper wraps with no cover, apparently as issued, c. 1850. Pages foxed and sewn binding loosening. Bottom front corner folded and torn. 12mo. BOOK INFO: 'When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.' (Matthew, vi. 6). A pamphlet on private worship, ending in a 'Secret Devotion', a beautiful, simple daily prayer.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Glossy pictorial black softcover with yellow and orange titling; spine is uncreased. (No DJ). A single instance of underlining/light marginalia noted, and a few words lightly penciled on end paper; Otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. (6 x 9 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being. 'Previously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic basis without a supreme being or ground of being. In this book, Jerome A. Stone traces its history and analyzes some of the issues dividing religious naturalists. He includes analysis of… Read More

Glasgow: Duncan Mackenzie, Printer, 1806. Paperback. Poor/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Original booklet, reduced to pages now, barely held together by former owner's 2 pieces of blue tape. Toned and chipped edges. A few penciled instances of marginalia, mostly punctuation. Interior is unmarked. 12.5 x 19.5 cm. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: 'Being a paper, subscribed and given in to the Associated Session, Havannah-street, Glasgow, by some members of that congregation.' 'In laying the following declaration before the public, we are well aware, that, in general, it will meet with neglect, contempt, and ridicule; yea, we doubt not, but some, whom it ought more especially to excite to cautious enquiry, will convert it into fuel for feeding their rancorous spirit, will thereby be emboldened to more violent opposition, and become more assiduous in inventing and disseminating calumnious reproaches. From the treatment, however, which we have already received, the publication we consider… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, New York, Pilgrim press, 1927. Hardcover. Good/Poor+. Signed. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. SIGNED on FFEP. Toned page edges; Pages lightly toned and unmarked. Binding is sound. Spine and upper edges of boards are toned. Dustjacket is chipped and toned with age. Interior text is unmarked. 12 mo. 4 5/8 x 7 3/8 ins. BOOK INFO: An autobiography of the religious life of Dr. Grenfell. It is written with the broad and sane outlook which characterizes his life and work. He says: 'Faith came to me with the vision of Christ still in this world today. I owe it to Him. He meant to me a determination, God helping me, to follow Him.... I have tried to subordinate my will to His, and to play across the board as if He were directing my share in the game.' Where this faith has led him is outlined in this remarkable little volume. This statement will help smooth out religious perplexities in many minds. -from the endflap

Reading, Pa.: Daniel Miller, 1887. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Signed. SIGNED, inscribed and dated to Chas. M. Baker by Rev. James I. Good. Black cloth boards with embossed border on front and back, with gilt titling and decorative banding on spine, moderately soiled and head of spine worn. First several pages from end paper to dedication page are loose but present. 2-in. vertical closed tear to top of fairly fragile paper of title page. Page edges are toned with age. Text is unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. Tall 12mo. (5.25 x 7.75 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Rare. 2 fronts. (incl. double map) plates, ports. 20 cm. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in detailed B&W drawings. 'The Reformed Church of Germany has a history. If so, it ought to be told to her English children in their own tongue. The history of the German Reformed Church is a history of… Read More