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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. 730 pp. Octavo [23.6 cm]. Burgundy red paper over board with a gilt stamped lettering on backstrip. Minimal blemishing on bottom of textbook. Dust jacket price cut. From the publisher: "Less than ten years before his death in 1933, B. H. Roberts, one of the most influential Mormon writers of the twentieth century, began work on "the most important book that I have yet contributed to the [LDS] Church." A prolific and respected Mormon apologist, Roberts wanted to consolidate his theological thought into a unified whole and to reconcile science with scripture. His final manuscript, "The Truth, the Way, the Life," synthesized doctrine into three sections: the truth about the world and revelation, the way of salvation, and Jesus' life in shaping Christian character. He submitted his completed work to the LDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, which, after a series of heated meetings, rejected it. Roberts's views on evolution, the age of the earth, the pre-earth existence, and the eternal progression of God were deemed too controversial, so his "masterwork" went unpublished. With the support of the Roberts family, editor Stan Larson has corrected this sixty-year omission from the corpus of Mormon theology.".…

Zustand: NEW.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - London, 1941. The city lives under blackout curtains, sirens, ration books, and the constant threat of fire from the sky.Jimmy Caldwell was once one of the RAF's brightest pilots. Now he has been sent away from his squadron in disgrace, carrying the shame of a night mission that ended in death and a tremor he cannot command. To the men who once trusted him, he is broken. To himself, he is worse.Tom Ellis serves without a weapon. As a conscientious objector with the Friends Ambulance Unit, he walks into bombed streets, shattered houses, and burning rubble while enduring the contempt of those who call him a coward. He has chosen mercy in a world that demands violence, but that choice costs him every day.Forced to share a narrow room in a London boarding house, Jimmy and Tom should have nothing in common except exhaustion and mutual suspicion. One was trained to kill. One refuses to. Yet as the Blitz closes around them, hostility gives way to recognition, and recognition to a dangerous tenderness neither man can afford.Their love has no legal name, no public future, and no safe place to stand. But in a city built on secrecy and survival, Jimmy and Tom must decide what courage means when the greatest battle is not always fought with a gun.The Coward & The Killer is a WWII MM historical romance about shame, conscience, trauma, forbidden love, and the men who found one another in the ruins.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1925, Rosita Forbes, Kufra, Rohlfs, Senussi, Siwa, Sayed Idris Sennusi, Qayi-m-qana, In Search of the Lost Oases, Sahara desert, Sollum, El Obeid, Sudan, Smugglers Three, Swan eggs, Swan Egg Poaching, Azizun the Dancing-Girl. Illustrated by Woodville, R. Caton; Gillett, F.; Leigh, Conrad; York,W.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Somerfield, T.; Eyles, D.C.; Brock, H.M.; Holmes,Fred; Briault, S.; Prater, E.; Goss, G.W.; Peddie, Tom; Lloyd, Stanley (illustrator).…