CLARK, RONALD W.

The Life of Bertrand Russell

London, U.K. Jonathan Cape. (ISBN: 0-224-01165-0). 1975, 1st U.K. edition. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 766pp. 8vo. Heavy. Miniscule crease at top outside corner of front cover, else clean, bright and tight throughout. B / W photos. Co-published with Weidenfeld & Nicholson [ISBN: 0 297 77018 7]. First U.K. Edition.30.

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Book number: 122639

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Biographies, Nobel Prize, Philosophy 0224011650

CLARKSON, THOMAS

A Portraiture of Quakerism; Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Economy, and Character of the Society of Friends

Indianapolis, Merrill & Field. 1870. (Full leather) Very good. 511pp. Joints split either side of head. Former owner's inscription on endpaper. Water stains affecting preliminary pages, else bright enough despite minor off-setting.

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Book number: 200364

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Quakers, Society of Friends

CLEARY, THOMAS [TRANSLATION, PRESENTATION]

The Essential Tao; An Initiation into the Heart of Taoism Throught the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang-Tzu

Edison, N.J. Castle Books. (ISBN: 0-7858-0905-8). 1998. (hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 168pp. 8vo. Dustjacket has a tiny tear at the lower edge, front, at the spine. The book is clean, solid, and if read, done so only with great respect.

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Book number: 124871

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Taoism, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality, Taoism 0785809058

NEWS AND LETTERS COMMITTEES

News & Letters Vol. 17 No. 5 May, 1972

Various, News and Letters Committees NONE. 1972. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 8pp. Large folio, folded. Monthly Marxist-Humanist acitivist newspaper of the small revolutionary organization of the same name in the US. Black and white photographs, drawings. Lightly age-toned, as may be anticipated, otherwise, clean and bright. "Human Power is its own end".

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Book number: 130177

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Marxist Literature, 1970s, Alternative Newspapers, Counter-Culture, Counterculture, Ephemera - American, Humanism, Marxism, Periodicals, Political Activism, Social Activism

NEWS AND LETTERS COMMITTEES

News & Letters Vol. 17 No. 4 April, 1972

Various, News and Letters Committees NONE. 1972. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 8pp. Large folio, folded. Monthly Marxist-Humanist acitivist newspaper of the small revolutionary organization of the same name in the US. Black and white photographs, drawings. Lightly age-toned, as may be anticipated, otherwise, clean and bright. "Human Power is its own end".

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Book number: 130178

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Marxist Literature, 1970s, Alternative Newspapers, Counter-Culture, Counterculture, Ephemera - American, Humanism, Marxism, Periodicals, Political Activism, Social Activism

GANDHI, MAHATMA; KRIPALANI, KRISHNA [COMPILED AND EDITED BY]

All Men Are Brothers; Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi As Told in His Own Words

Ahmedabad-14, Navajivan Publishing House. 1968, reprint. (Mass market paperback) Very good. ix, 251pp. 12mo. Yellow card covers, with French folds. There is a name pencilled to the front blank; else is clean. There is wear to the heel of the spine, but the book itself is otherwise solid.

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Book number: 125319

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Humanities, Philosophy, Spirituality

YESHE, LAMA THUBTEN; LANDAW, JOSEPH [COMPILED AND EDITED BY]

Introduction to Tantra; A Vision of Totality

Boston, Mass. Wisdom Publications. (ISBN: 0 86171 021 5). 1992. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 173+. 8vo. Clean, crisp, tight copy with black and white drawings and photographs.

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Book number: 125328

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Buddhism, Buddhism, Philosophy, Spirituality 0861710215

CREEL, H. G.

Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-Tung

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode NONE. 1954. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 301pp. 8vo. A readable account of the development of Chinese thought from an established scholar. Jacket shows wear (small tears) along upper edge. Navy cloth, gilt title to spine. Lightly bowed. Their is a name penned (small) to the upper right corner of the front free endpaper and there is light foxing to the fore edge. Else is clean, solid, bright.

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Book number: 128755

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Confucius, Curiosities, Eastern Thought, Esoterica, Mao Tse-Tung

CUTNER, H.

The Devil's Chaplain; Robert Taylor (1784-1844)

London, The Pioneer Press. [no date], presumed first. (Mass market paperback) Good to very good. 67pp, [1]. Undated [c.1940s?]. 12mo. In original light-blue wrappers, top cover printed in black; saddle-stapled. Wrappers faintly dirtied from dust and rubbing. Light wear. Originally sold by "The Truth Seeker" of San Diego, with their black rubber stamp to foot of title page. Else internally clean. An uncommon monograph.

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Book number: 122244

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Anglican, Biography, Christian, Christianity, Church of England, Protestant, Protestantism, Religious

DEMOUSTIER, M.

Lettres a Emilie, Sur la Mythologie

[No Place], A. Buckingham. 1795, "Nouvelle Edition" - ex-lib. (12mo) Very good. 263, 240pp. Two volumes containing four Parts. Frontispieces, engraved illus. Leather; gilt decorative border to covers, gilt spines; all edges rubbed, abraded extremities, some damage to head & tail. Joints tender, starting. Rubber stamp to half-titles. Quite bright within, infrequent age stains, pages square. In vol. 1 a small neat hand in pencil has identified the subject of each engraving. Vol. 2 frontispiece bears a small nick at top edge / margin, not at all affecting image.

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Book number: 200478

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Classics, French, Greek mythology

DESTOMBES, A.J.

La Persecution Religieuse en Angleterre sous Elisabeth et les Premiers Stuarts

Lille, Societe de Saint-Augustin, Desclee, de Brouwer. 1883, ex-lib. (Cloth) Good to very good. 304, 541, 447pp. 3 volumes. Frontispiece, illus. Vol.1: front hinge tender; Vol.2: prelims loosening; Vol.3: prelims missing, boards detached. All volumes externally edge worn with light soiling and chipping of cover and spine title labels. No spine library markings. Some foxing to fore edges and / or minor stains, else internally bright.

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Book number: 200496

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, French

DEVAS, (FATHER) DOMINIC

Seventh Centenary of the Franciscan Order in England, 1224-1924 : The Martyrs

London, St. Antony's Press. 1924. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 24pp. 12mo. In original pale blue wraps; top cover printed. Saddle stapled. Frontispiece, ports at rear.

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Book number: 118972

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion

DICKSON, NICHOLAS

The Kirk & Its Worthies

London and Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis. 1914, third edition. (Cloth) Very good. x, 337pp. Advert in rear. Decorated cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Frontispeice and 15 colour illustrationsby various artists tipped in. Pages uncut. Previous owners name small script to front free endpaper. Beautiful and clean copy.

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Book number: 113077

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Presbyterianism, History - Scotland, Presbyterianism

DOUGLASS, H. PAUL

The Springfield Church Survey; a Study of Organized Religion with Its Social Background

New York, George H. Doran Company. 1926, 1st Edition. (Cloth) Very good plus. 445pp. Frontispiece, illus. - plates and charts. A survey of organized religion in Springfield, Mass.

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Book number: 203346

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Massachusetts

DYCK, JOHN; HARMS, WILLIAM (EDS)

1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West Reserve; Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society. (ISBN: 0-9690883-5-3). 1998. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. iv, 500pp. 8vo. Wrappers. Faint crease to top cover and small closed tear at head near spine (as though the volume was unceremoniously dropped on its front cover). Else fine. Bright and clean. B&W photos. Replete with genealogical information. Consisting of: original 1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West Reserve; 1880-1882 Individual Tax Records by Village; 1880 Census Families with Supplementary Data; Profiles of Reinländer Bishops, Ministers, and Deacons; 1891 Federal Census of the Mennonite West Reserve; 1880-1900 Passenger List of Mennonite Immigrants (landing in Quebec). Volume II of the the West Reserve Historical Series.

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Book number: 119401

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Mennonite, Canadian Prairies, Genealogy, Immigration, Prairies 0969088353