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Cairo: Nile Mission Press, ND [1916]. First Edition. Half Leather. Good +. 8vo (23.5cm). Cream cloth, brown calf, gilt titles to spine, five raised bands. Lilac endpapers. pp. 348. Upson, also known as Abdul-Fady Al-Qahirany, a Christian missionary to Egypt, co-founded the Nile Mission Press in 1905 as a vehicle to transmit the Gospels to the Moslem world. Ownership signature to second blank of William Goldsack, (1871–1957), Australian Baptist missionary to East Bengal, notable for translating the Koran into Bengali. Beneath, previous owner's name of H M Angus, likely Harold Mortimer Angus, (1893–1983), a Baptist missionary also active in India. A few library stamps for Selly Oak College Library. There is an illuminating Wikipedia entry on the Selly Oak Colleges. Edition remarks: a later issue of the book records the First edition as published in 1916, with a Second Impression (of first nine lessons only) issued in 1917, and a third impression of 1919 with only five lessons. There was a Second… Read More

Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press and Published by the Author, 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fair. Sm 4to. Lilac cloth, gilt titles to spine. vi, 361. A worn copy, marks to boards, spine faded, tips bruised, front board slightly bowed towards lower tip, tear to cloth at head of spine, text block sagging. Binding still holding, internally clean and free of marks.

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: Ram Narain Lal, 1934. Third Edition. Original Cloth. Good. 8vo. pp. 316. Maroon cloth boards somewhat worn, bumped, faded. Pages browning, still a sound, clean copy.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very good. 8vo. xxiv, 275. Light wear only, a clean, firm copy.