[General Conference Mennonite Church]

Anhang Zum Gesangbuch

[Rosthern, Saskatchewan], [General Conference Mennonite Church], 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated [pp. 63]. 8vo. measuring 6" x 8". Light blue, twice-stapled, card covers. Comprises of sixty hymns, accompanied with lyrics, and musical scores. Light rubbing to the covers, neat ink name to upper corner of title page else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Rare in commerce, unrecorded in OCLC. Overall, very good. Text entirely in German, and printed in Gothic type. Published as an appendix to "Gesangbuch der Mennoniten" (Rosthern, Sask. 1942), with an additional 60 hymns.

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Book number: 2951

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: music; hymnals; music scores

[Multiple Contributors]

Gesangbuch: Eine Sammlung Geistlicher Lieder ; zur Allgemeinen Erbauung und zum Lobe Gottes

Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Publishing House, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. 890, [1]. Thick 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 7.5". Publisher's original black buckram over boards, gilt rules and lettering to the spine, red foredges. No detectable flaws, extremities being entirely without blemish, contents equally bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine like black buckram slipcase. Near fine. Rare in commerce, and in this state; unrecorded in OCLC. [English Title Translation: "Hymnal: A collection of sacred songs for general edification and praise to God."]. A handsomely bound reprint from the original 1918 printing as published by the Mennonite Publishing Co. of Scottdale, PA.

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Book number: 3723

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: bible; music; religion; religious music; liturgy; mennonite history; christianity; hymnal

Lenci-Downs, Elizabeth; Lise Huebert Toews Gerig

I Heard My People Cry: One Family's Escape from Russia [Signed] ; The True Story of Lise Huebert Toews Gerig

Scottsdale, AZ, Inkwell Productions, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xi, 244. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the subjects, and accompanied with many other photographs, portraits, maps, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Neat in name to corner of title page (marked over), else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 3544

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: history; canadian history; american history; mennonite

Dyck, Isaak M.

Auswanderung Der Reinlander Mennoniten Gemeinde Von Canada Nach Mexiko [Cover Title Translation: "Emigration of the Rhinelander Mennonite community from Canada to Mexico".]

Cuauhtemoc, Chih. Mexico, Privately Printed by the Author, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 228. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8". Black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the front board. No detectable flaws to extremities. Text-block remains equally bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. Text entirely in German. .

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Book number: 2732

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadiana; canadian history; canadiana; religion; ethnology; anthropology; archaeology; religious history; religion; low german

Dyck, Isaak M.

Auswanderung Der Reinlander Mennoniten Gemeinde Von Canada Nach Mexiko [Cover Title Translation: "Emigration of the Rhinelander Mennonite community from Canada to Mexico".]

Cuauhtemoc, Chih. Mexico, Privately Printed by the Author, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 228. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8". Black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the front board. No detectable flaws to extremities. Text-block remains equally bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. Text entirely in German. .

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Book number: 2733

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadiana; canadian history; canadiana; religion; ethnology; anthropology; archaeology; religious history; religion; low german

Dyck, Jacob (1924-1999)

Stories of My Life | 200 Years of History: Dyck Family Register

[Winnipeg, Manitoba], Privately Printed, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 161, 21. Small 8vo. measuring 22 cm. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce to be offered in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #870334363. Not found in UoM Archives & Special Collections, the Manitoba Legislative Library, FHL, etc. .

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Book number: 6074

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; mennonite; genealogy; canadian history; family history; cabinetmakers; ukrainian canadian history; ukraine; mennonites ukraine biography

Fast, Gerhard; Peter J. Wiebe (Foreword)

In Den Steppen Sibiriens [Anfänge der mennonistischen Ansiedlungen in den Altai-, Amur-, Omsk- und Pawlodargebieten]

Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada, N.D. [Circa 1957?]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 156. 8vo. measuring 23 cm. Illustrated, textured card covers with navy-blue lettering. Black-and-white frontispiece of the author. Black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Light sunning to covers, single stamp (not ex-library) to title page else, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound stapled binding. Not to be confused with the 2012 reprint of the same title. Rare in commerce in the original printing. Overall, very good+. [In the Steppes of Siberia: beginnings of the Mennonite settlements in the Altai, Amur, Omsk and Pavlodar regions.].

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Book number: 2815

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: 3862030717; canadian history; ethnology; anthropology; russian history; russia; mennonite; religion; emigration; immigration; canadiana; european history; saskatchewan history; prairie; western canada; Germans Russia (Federation) Siberia History; 20th cen

Friesen, Martin W.; Gerhard Enns (Foreword)

Neue Heimat in Der Chacowildnis

Asuncion, Paraguay, Chortitzer Komitee | Printed by D.W. Friesen & Sons, Limited, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 502. Thick 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, charts, tables, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. Text in German. .

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Book number: 6680

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; immigration; religion; emigration

Gerbrandt, Henry J.

Adventure in Faith; the Background in Europe and the Development in Canada of the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba

Altona, Manitoba, Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. x, 379. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green cloth, gold lettering to the spine, and front board. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, maps. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities, neat ink name to the upper-left margin of the ffep, else, contents without blemish with firm, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 5063

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: canadian history; religion; manitoba history; local history; theology

Harder, John A. (Ed. & Trans.); Mariechen Harder

From Kleefeld with Love

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Pandora Press, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 198. Square 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimile, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine. The letters in this collection were written by Mennonite women during the onset of the Soviet Russia's turbulent years, 1925 to 1930. Most were written by Mariechen Harder to Abram and Anna Harder and family, her relatives who had left Keefeld for Canada in 1924.

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Book number: 4601

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: soviet union; gender studies; russian history; german history; mennonite history; canadian history; canadiana

Isaac, Frank K.

Elim: 50th Anniversary, 1929-1979

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 60. 4to. measuring 85" x 11". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, charts, tables, plans, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, stapled, binding; near fine. Scarce in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #8214046. .

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Book number: 4909

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; religion; elim bible school; education; religious institutions; religious school; western canadian history; western canada

Pauls Jr., Peter

Mennoniten in Brasilien ; Gedenkschrift zum 50 Jahr-Jubiläum ihrer Einwanderung: 1930 - 1980; Documento Histórico Para o Jubileu dos 50 Anos de Imigração Menonita no Brasil

Witmarsum Colony (Paraná State, Brazil), Privately Printed, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 270. 8vo. measuring 24 cm. Rich with many black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, charts, tables, facsimiles, et al. Light rubbing to the covers, neat crease to the spine; contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Quite scarce in commerce. .

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Book number: 3175

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: religion; ethnology; canadian history; mennonite history; russian; german history

Klassen, Peter P.

Die Deutsch-Völkische Zeit: In Der Kolonie Fernheim, Chaco, Paraguay, 1933-1945 ; Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der auslandsdeutschen Mennoniten wahrend des Dritten Reiches

Bolanden-Weierhof, Germany, Mennonitischer Geschichtsverein, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 148. 8vo. Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Rubbing to covers, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. [Cover Title Trans.; The German-Völkisch Period: in the Fernheim colony, Chaco, Paraguay, 1933-1945; A Contribution to the history of the Mennonites from abroad during the Third Reich.].

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Book number: 3006

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: mennonite history; immigration; emigration; history; german history; religion

Klassen, Sarah (Ed.)

Lithuania Christian College: A Work in Progress

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Leona Defehr, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xvi, 238. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Appears unread; as new. .

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Book number: 3265

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; winnipeg; religion; prairie; western-canadiana

Kroeker, Irvin J. (Ed.); Brian Plett (Photography); Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute Anniversary Committee

Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute, 1945-1995: The Year of Jubilee

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute Inc. | Printed by Friesen Printers, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 192. 4to. measuring 9" x 11". Pictorial boards. Rich with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detetable flaws to the extremities, or contents. Bright, clean, and unmarked pages and tight, sound binding; near fine. Corresponds to OCLC #9780969982401. This book commemorates the Year of Jubilee in which the Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute observed its fiftieth anniversary, culimating in a reunion the long weekend of May, 1995. The celebration included a huge banquet and a massive worship service in the Winnipeg Convention Centre as well as a weekend of programs reflecting on fifty years of Chistian education at the School from 1945 to 1995. At least 2,500 alimni and friends attened. This collection of memories includes the work of fifty-five authors, editors, researchers, past and present students of MBCI.

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Book number: 4365

Catalogue: Mennonite

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; winnipeg; religion; cmu