Bishop Ida (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 243 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on burgundy boards; lettered in silver on the spine; endpaper maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh; Afterword by Susan Fifer Canby; The Call of the Arctic: Louise Arner Boyd 1887 - 1972; Helen Thayer 1937 - . Where the Air Is Thin: Fanny Bullock Workman 1859 - 1925; Catherine Destivelle 1960 - . Down River: Florence Baker 1841 - 1916; Arlene Burns 1960 - . At the Table of Strangers: Ida Pfeiffer 1797 - 1858; Yva Momatiuk 1940 - . Face to Face: Animal Encounters: Dian Fossey 1932 - 1985; Birute Galdikas 1946 - . Globe Trotters: Isabella Bird Bishop 1831 - 1904; Dervla Murphy 1931 - . Airborne: Amelia Earhart 1897 - 1937; Shannon Lucid 1943 - . And On Assignment: Harriet Chalmers Adams 1875 - 1937; Sylvia A. Earle 1935 - ; followed by an afterword by Susan Fifer Canby. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Double-page line map, with Anglican Christian training centres: Bungaria Lolowai Maravovo Pamtia Pawa Siota Torgil Tugawi Vureas `.the fundamental principle on which Melanesian society is based is one of kinship, with the emphasis on mother-right. It is the mother who conceives the child, nurtures it in her body and brings it into the world in the culmination of a pregnancy for which the husband is not held to be responsible. According to the Melanesians,the baby is brought to the mother at night-time by spirits. The father has made no physical contribution whatsoever. Knowing nothing of ordinary physiological functions and hardly anything about sexual anatomy, the islanders believe that sexual passion originates in the eyes, flows thence into the rest of the body and concen- trates in the kidneys before manifesting itself in the male and female organs. Men and women cohabit together,but pregnancy is not regarded as the logical consequence of the sex act. It is this denial of paternity that makes it well-nigh impossible for our missionaries to preach the gospel of the Holy Trinity.' (p. 91) -- `On the islands sex flourishes best under a full moon. The young people love to sit together round a blazing wood fire, chewing betel nut and smoking. Very likely they will squat face to face and begin their love-play by searching each other's head for lice (which they eat!). Then the youth will tell the maiden frankly that he wants to copulate and so they will wander off to seek privacy and concealment beyond the ring of firelight. They do not kiss in our sense of the word, but their preliminary love-making includes a certain measure of caressing, teasing, scratching and--strange to relate--biting of eyelashes.' (p. 93) [8], 209 p.; 22 cm. VG blue boards in price-clipped ill. blue dj. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Tight binding, clean interior. Cream boards with bright gold decoration; light rubs to corners, light printing creases across both boards, faint staining to outer page edges. Text unmarked, lots of b/w photos. A local history of East Community, Pondera County, Montana. 320 pages. Hastings, Ralph; Hodgson, Kathy; Tollefson, Lori (illustrator).…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Essays "Books: Craig Clunas on Gao Minglu's 'Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art,'" by Craig Clunas; "Film: James Quandt on Raúl Ruiz's 'Mysteries of Lisbon,'" by James Quandt; "Slant: David Joselit on Nicolás Guagnini's 'The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegón,'" by David Joselit; "Slant: J. Hoberman on Jack Smith's Posthumous Career," by J. Hoberman; "On Site: Gary Indiana on the Steilneset Memorial," by Gary Indiana; "Film: Rachel Haidu on Sven Augustijnen's 'Spectres,'" by Rachel Haidu; "Top Ten," by Chandler Burr; "Fall 2011 Exhibitions: 45 Shows Worldwide"; "Julia Bryan-Wilson on 'Pacific Standard Time,'" by Julia Bryan-Wilson; "Venice 2011," by Claire Bishop, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Benjamin Paul, Tim Griffin, John Kelsey, and Nicholas Cullinan; "Tabula Rasa: The Art of R.H. Quaytman," by Paul Galvez; "Truth or Dare: The Art of Witnessing," by David Joselit; "Close-Up: Leap Year," Yve-Alain Bois on Martin Barré's "Greenwich" and "60-T-44"; "Forest for the Trees: The Art of Goshka Macuga," by Dieter Roelstraete; "Openings: Adrián Villar Rojas," by Jessica Morgan; "Openings: Olivia Plender," by Brian Dillon. Reviews by Christine Mehring, Jeffrey Weiss, Sam Pulitzer, Dennis Lim, Frances Richard, Robert Pincus-Witten, David Frankel, Suzanne Hudson, Lisa Turvey, Ida Panicelli, Donald Kuspit, Emily Hall, Jeffrey Kastner, Michael Wilson, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Eva Díaz, Daniel Quiles, Martha Buskirk, David M. Lubin, Nuit Banai, Franklin Melendez, Jan Tumlir, Catherine Taft, Michael Ned Holte, John-Paul Stonard, Barry Schwabsky, Zehra Jumabhoy, Maeve Connolly, Jian-Xing Too, Anthony Byrt, John Beeson, Michèle Faguet, Astride Wege, Noemi Smolik, Hans Rudolf Reust, Quinn Latimer, Giorgio Verzotti, Brigitte Huck, Markéta Stará, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Lauren Dyer Amazeen, Jon Bywater, Angie Baecker, and Shinyoung Chung. Cover: R.H. Quaytman.…

Ring Binder / Loose Leaf. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 3 ring binders. Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Flex cover ring binders. Includes lessons, lesson plans and reprodueable illustrations to share with children learning about God and Jesus Christ. Each volume has about 100 pages. Binders show some minor soil, but interior pages are clean. Completely Illustrated (illustrator). Book.…

A substantial photograph picturing the funeral procession of Bishop Ida Bell Robinson, an important, trailblazing African-American woman who formed the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America. Robinson was born in Georgia in 1891. In 1909 she married Oliver Robinson, and the two moved to Philadelphia for better job prospects during the Great Migration. Robinson practiced her evangelism on the streets before being ordained as a minister in the United Holy Church of America in 1919. In 1924, she founded, served as first bishop, and was president of the Mount Sinai Holy Churchpositions she would hold for the rest of her life, which ended about a week before the present photograph was taken. Her church was one of the most important ministries devoted to supporting women preachers; six of the original nine members of the church leadership were women. Her main reason for founding the church lay in the belief that God had instructed her to create a church that would "loose the women" and allow them full clergy rights. She built a real juggernaut of a ministry. At the time she died (sadly too young at age fifty-five), Bishop Robinson's organization numbered over eighty churches, served by 125 women ministers (out of 160 total), a school, missions in Cuba and Guyana, and a farm in New Jersey. The present photograph shows Robinson's funeral procession paused in the street in Philadelphia. Half a dozen men and women lead a hearse and a line of cars, interspersed with a handful of police officers, one of whom leads the procession on a motorcycle. Hundreds of African-American men, women, and children line both sides of the street. The majority of the mourners look straight into the camera lens, obviously prompted by the camera operator. The name of the undertaker is printed below the caption title, as "John C. McKain, Undertaker, 2019 Jefferson St., Phila., Pa." No copies are located in OCLC, although a copy resides in the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection at Emory University. Photograph, 10 × 20 inches. Small chip to upper left corner, short closed tear in left edge, minor edge wear. Light soiling and creasing. Very good.…