Pilgrims Progress, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 468 pages. The author is an enormously inventive interpreter of history and character. There is a long 1/4" grove across the front dj and board. Other than that this is a good dj over very good book. Unread.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nimbach Cartoon on Pilgrim's Progress; Derson & Kelen; John Mackey Caricature of Albert Einstein; (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps 86 clean, unmarked pages; includes:Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse; Gold & Fort Knox, Kentucky; Evelyn Miller Crowell (Texas Oil magnets); Harold Rhodenbaugh (Primitive Dry Fork Baptist Church in Christy Creek Kentucky; Edwin A. Lahey (CIO Labor Union and the Left Wing); Irving Tressler (Power Outage in Hell's Gate NYC; Undergroundd Newpaper Wahre Nachri==righten, in Nazi Germany; Milton Holmes (J. Donald Budge, Tennis Champion); Sidney Carroll (George Gallup and His Polls).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robert Lawson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition thus. Quarto cherry pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text b/w drawings by Robert Lawson. This copy INSCRIBED BY LAWSON on the half title. A fine copy in an about fine dust jacket which has only light sunning to the spine and light fraying at the spine tips. A beautiful copy, scarce signed. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

First edition in Arabic. First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison, 7 plates captioned in Arabic. [6], 281, [1, imprint], [2, blank] pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress translated into Arabic, with a life of the author, by Christoph Friedrich Schlienz. From the title page, this is nominally the first volume, but press marks are continuous and the text is complete: the end, part twentieth, sees the Pilgrim reach the Celestial City. Printed at Malta by the Anglican missionaries. William R. Whittingham (1805-1879), graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. This copy with his contemporary gift inscription to the GTS library, "From the Rev. W.R. Whittingham, 1834" RARE FIRST EDIITION IN ARABIC of a classic of English literature and of Christian devotion. Roper, Arabic printing in Malta, 1825-1845, 56. OCLC: 57188645 (Columbia, Glasgow, Tübingen), 643954559 (Manchester). Provenance: William R. Whittingham, gif tinscription, 1834; General Theological Seminary (bookplates and inkstamps) Original silky cloth over boards, twentieth-century binder's cloth spine. Joints crudely rehinged, title leaf reinforced at gutter; binding cracked and a few leaves loosened. Contemporary presentation inscription on pastedown. Very good, internally fine Title vignette of Bunyan in prison, 7 plates captioned in Arabic. [6], 281, [1, imprint], [2, blank] pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s.