Rev Shaw James (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound with light handling wear including creases on the top corner of the front cover also affecting the first few pages.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. An ex-library copy of this 30-page paperback, library-bound into stiff card covers, retaining the original paper covers within. The usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, and the text is clean/unmarked. Book.

Brown Embossed Cloth. Condition: Minor Wear. No Jacket. First Edition. Slight extremity wear. Spine gilt is bright. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Clean throughout. Contains 15 chapters on a variety of subjects, mainly about ministerial conferences in Kansas and Nebraska. According to Dary, there are insights into life in early Kansas. A good picture of the development of the Methodist Church in pioneer Kansas. The proceeds of the book were to go to needy ministers. See Kanzana 231, Howes S341, Rader 2915. 238pp. Size: Duodecimo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 527 pages, 8vo. Bound in dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine, ornate gilt title box design on front cover with green lettering. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, gilt lettering along spine is faded and hard to read, fraying at top and bottom spine edges, rear spine hinge is cracked and delicate, Western Methodist Book Concerns bookplate adhered to inside front cover, light tanning on page leafs. Volume is in Good condition.…

Hardcover. Gilt decorated leather covers. Covers rubbed, especially at extremities, raised bands and rear cover; tiny white flecks on front cover; lacks front free endpaper; pages slighty toned, with occasional small stains/foxing; otherwise very good condition. . 603p. Illus. Frontispiece. Some plates with tissue guards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 440p octavo, illustrated with a frntispiece and a fold out map. Inner hinges are cracked, front cover holding on, spine damaged with 2 holes, foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book was rebound with brown boards and gilt title. Pages show faint original marbling on the edges still visible. Originally published 'For the Author'. Pages are very good, original to the book. Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. First Editoin. A pretty comprehensive state by state survey of temperance movement activities. Illustrated with plates depicting such edifying scenes of children bursting into a saloon which a skeleton behind the bar pours daddy some rum. Includes a report to the Lincoln (Neb.) Temperance Society by a chemist on "How Some Liquors Are Made" -- for example, Detwiler's yummy "Black Maria" contains Sugar of lead, eight grains to a quart; as well as strychnine and Brazil-wood. In the publisher's brown decorated cloth binding with some silverfishing to boards and spine. The front hinge is cracked but holding. Very Good binding.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1867 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 471 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 471.…