Stokes Rev E H (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED. Light rust-brown cloth, lettered in gold foil. 124 pp., illus. Spine panel cloth slightly faded, slight handling wear. Signed by author on front flyleaf, full signature, no inscription or date. Dust jacket sunned along spine panel, with triangle of loss at head of spine and several small edge chips, short tears, price-clipped, mild surface rubbing to portions of rear panel, now in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 170 pages, illustration plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 7 3/4 by 5 inches, 216 pages. Covers have minimal wear, just some wear at spine ends. Bright gilt decorative stamping on front cover. Hinges sound. Endpapers printed on brittle paper, front endpaper chipped at edges and re-attached with archival tape. Contents clean. Gift inscription on preliminary page. published by Adam Wallace, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, pp, 113, original printed wrappers, maps, full-page illustrations, uncut. Publications Octavo Series no XLIX.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 216pp. Blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. Boards a bit scuffed, a little spotting on a few pages, a very good copy. Travel journal, with some poetry by a prominent Methodist cleric. Stokes was trained as a bookbinder, but started to preach at an early age. At his death in 1897, he was the President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was largely responsible for the building of the Ocean Grove Auditorium. *OCLC* locates less than a dozen copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. In-text photographic portraits. Full white and gray cloth decorated in black and gilt. Small owner label, fairly large stain along the spine, else near very good. Poetry by a prominent Methodist cleric about other clerics (mostly prominent in Ocean Grove), friends, and family, most with in-text portraits of the subjects, as well as nature poetry. Stokes was trained as a bookbinder, but started to preach at an early age. At his death in 1897, he was the President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was largely responsible for the building of the Ocean Grove Auditorium. Quite scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo: 88, [2]-24 pp. with illustrations and maps, including the folding plan at the rear. Original brown cloth binding, with black-stamped borders and a rendering of a coastal scene, gilt-stamped titling, and brown endpapers. Sparse pencil marginalia. Period previous owner's ink signature to the title page. The boards are a bit edgeworn, largely at the corners and tips; else very good. Located on the Atlantic Ocean's Jersey Shore, Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 as an outgrowth of the camp meeting movement in the United States, when a group of Methodist clergymen, led by William B. Osborn and Ellwood H. Stokes, formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to develop and operate a summer camp meeting site on the New Jersey seashore. By the early 20th century, the popular Christian meeting ground became known as the "Queen of Religious Resorts". This early history acts as a prospectus and includes the first five annual reports (the fifth is preceded by its own title page), names of the members of the Ocean Grove C.M. Association, architectural views, a list of lot and cottage holders, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author. Good condition. The cover is well worn, commensurate with it's age. The contents are clean and remarkably well preserved. Inscribed by the author to Gipsy Smith and dated September 3rd 1892. Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (31 March 1860 4 August 1947) was a British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was an early member of The Salvation Army. This is an extremely rare book containing over 150 poems/hymn lyrics by Stokes. Book.

First Edition. First Edition. Illustrated throughout, folding map. 88; 24; 45, [2]; 40;40; 39, [1]; 50pp. 8vo. With 10 Annual Reports. The Fifth -Tenth with seperate title-pages and pagination. Half brown morocco, spine sunned Illustrated throughout, folding map. 88; 24; 45, [2]; 40;40; 39, [1]; 50pp. 8vo.