R b thurston (10 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 50 pp. ; 28 cm color pictorial wrappers ; cartoons by Huffine, Hank Ketcham, Corva, Marcus, Grasso, Bill Wenzel, David Pascale, Tom Hudson, Graham Jackson, George Reckas, Jovo Fobry, Berenstain, Mendelssohn, Al Kniffman, Cavalli, Holfield, Richter, R. Teaney, Kraus, CLyde Lamb, Michael Berry, Vanselow, B. Wiseman, stories by Jack Benny, V E Bosau, F G Kernan, Harold Winerip, Cindy Marcks, I B Thurston, Loren Sharke, Charles De Mangin, Henry Stewart Allen, John Adman, Frank Rose, Cliff Walters, Robert Fontaine, Gail R. Rand, Ray Morin, Deamer Keller, Saxon, Wendell Smith, Irv Leiberman ; pages very brittle and foxed ; repair to one page ; scarce FINE. Magazine. …

Paperback/ broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 182 S. Guter Zustand ha1075964 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 173-212 + xxiv ads. Features: Nostalgic photo-illustrated ad for the Coldwell Lawn Mower Company; The Garden in Your Town - Prize Competition; Homes of American Artists - "Fernbrook,", the Summer Home of Thomas Shields Clarke, Lenox, MA - great photo-illustrated article; Practical Suggestions for Domestic Ventilation; A Small Brick House at Concord, MA - Built for Mr. Charles Francis Adams - A Leanto House of the 17th Century Reproduced in Brick; Flower-box Beauty; The Porch Sitting-Room - a wonderful centerfold compilation of twelve photos of Pleasant Outdoor Resting Places; Creating a Small Country Home; Historic Mansions of the Rappahannock River - "Sabine Hall" - one of the famous Carter Homesteads in Virginia - article with marvelous photos; Watercress Culture in France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; A House Built for J.L. Johnson, Esq., at Hackensack, NJ; Ants and Bees as Pets; "Penllyn House", the Residence of Arthur King Wood, Esq., at Ardsley-On-Hudson, NY; The Best Twenty Annuals for the Flower Garden; Nice one-page illustrated article for Wm. Knabe & Co. pianos; Photo-illustrated ad for the Grand Trunk railway system promotes Temagami, Northern Ontario, "A New Place to Shoot and Fish"; Illustrated ad for Elkhart (horse-drawn) Buggies; Interesting photo-ad for the Clinton Wire Cloth Company shows a 15,000 gallon concrete tank built for Edmund Tatham of Katonah, NY; Sensational color back cover ad for The Hartford Rubber Works Co. shows lady watching cars speed by; and more. Average wear and external soiling. Minor moisture exposure. Chip from upper left corner of front cover. Middle eight pages loose but present. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Miller, Laura (cover) (illustrator). …

First edition of this important collection of three prize-winning antislavery essays published in Boston the same year as the infamous Dred Scott decision. Small octavo, original publisher's brown gilt- and blind-stamped cloth. Containing Reverend R.B. Thurston's essay "The Error and the Duty in Regard to Slavery," Reverend A.C. Baldwin's essay "Friendly Letters to a Christian Slaver-Holder," and Reverend Timothy Williston's essay "Is American Slavery an Institution Which Christianity Sanctions?" With a secretarial presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Rev. Martin Dudley, with the fraternal regards of A.C. Baldwin." In very good condition. Interior fresh with light soiling to bright gilt cloth. Rare and desirable signed. In his second inaugural address Lincoln spoke to the core role of religion for both sides in the divide over slavery: "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Slavery not only split North from South, but also clergy and congregations. Liberty or Slavery contains three prize-winning antislavery essays from leading clergy, issued in hopes "of harmonizing Christian men." By 1857, when it appeared, abolitionists had long sought to enlist clergy and congregations. "But as long as nearly every American religious denomination recognized slaveholders as Christians in good standing, the moral case for abolitionism was seriously undermined. Both defenders of slavery and abolitionists believed it essential to prove that their cause was fully compatible with the basic sources of Christian faith." William Lloyd Garrison was not alone in breaking from churches, seeing "the nation's religious bodies as hopelessly corrupted by slavery" (McKivigan, Northern Churches and the Moral Problem of Slavery). These essays, which defend the antislavery work of some in the Presbyterian Church, resists "the immediate and total extinction of southern slavery" while also seeking to unite in the abolitionist cause.…