Fray Angelico Chavez: a bibliography of his published writings (1925-1978)
Santa Fe, NM: The Lightning Tree, 1980. Hardcover. 80p., biographical sketch, bibliographies, very good first edition in cloth boards and gilt. More
Cat.No: 18964
Santa Fe, NM: The Lightning Tree, 1980. Hardcover. 80p., biographical sketch, bibliographies, very good first edition in cloth boards and gilt. More
Cat.No: 18964
Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., matched pair in Hakluyt's signature format: blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in their dust jackets. Top edges of both volumes are dusty and foxed, and the second was printed on..... More
Cat.No: 296404
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by CUP, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., plates on inserted coated stock, maps and lengthy folded lists of encountered islands as called for, hardbound in the Hakluyt design, fine bright copies in their plain printed dust jackets. Djs are in general good shape..... More
Cat.No: 280484
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. Paperback. xviii, 109p., wraps, sticker on front wrap, rubberstamp on table of contents, else very good condition. Reverend Shigefusa Kanda was a Japanese-American missionary working in Hawai'i. In 1898 he married Sue Tanimura and the two set up the Kanda Home, a boarding school..... More
Cat.No: 315973
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1961. Hardcover. xiii, 248p., illustrated with a number of b&w photos on glazed inserted stock and endpaper maps in monochrome (two different ones), hardbound in 8x5 inch dark blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in its colorphoto dust jacket. Book itself is slightly cocked..... More
Cat.No: 297971
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1965. Hardcover. xviii, 196p, preface, translator's introduction, notes, index, maps, very good first edition in two-toned cloth boards and gilt. Special Publication #40. More
Cat.No: 30547
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. Paperback. xxvi, 239p., illustrated with b&w photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 128006
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1968. Hardcover. xiv+273p., introduction, references, index, plates, very good first edition in dj. More
Cat.No: 109535
Brooklyn: Union Missionary Training Institute, 1892. Hardcover. 382p., illustrated with original photographs (mugshots, sites) and a frontis author portrait in tissue-guarded steel engraving, hardbound in 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards gilt. Expect slight edgewear and mild wrinkles to top and tail rims, a good sound copy: the matte endsheets are..... More
Cat.No: 296935
Boston: Woman's Board of Missions, [circa 1910]. Pamphlet. 19p. 4.75x6 inches, stapled wraps, wraps lightly soiled, two tiny chips from top edge of rear cover, staples rusted, else very good condition. Text half-tones. Page’s first-hand account of her inspection tour of Protestant missions in Northern Spain, with comments on the..... More
Cat.No: 206553
London: China Inland Mission, 1954. Pamphlet. 31p., very good in wraps. Fields for Reaping, no. 3. Booklet on missionary work. More
Cat.No: 197262
Santa Barbara: Espadana Press, 1997. Paperback. 272p., profuse b&w sketches of elevations, statuary, detailings and plat maps of neighborhoods to visit, a husband and wife team ran a small publishing company to distribute their guidebooks. This is an oversize paperbound, 11x8.5 inch glossy monochrome wraps, a fine unblemished copy: quite..... More
Cat.No: 264308
Denver, CO: The Reed Publishing Company, 1905. Hardcover. 448p., original cloth boards with decorations; frontis., plates, corners a tad bumped, minor dimming of board decoration, title page and page 16-17 are torn through the middle about halfway, else in very good condition. Autobiography of a missionary in the slums of..... More
Cat.No: 299474
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1881 first issue in photo-facsimile. xxi, 174p., illustrated with two fold-out maps bound in at the rear (reasonably good reproductions), hardbound in 9x5.5 inch bright red cloth boards gilt with a printed black spine-label field. Enclosed in the dust..... More
Cat.No: 280050
[Yakima]: self-published by the author, n.d. 6p., 3.5x6.5 inches, text in Spanish, good folded brochure on very thin terra-cotta stock, photo of author on cover, stamp of a Mission on cover. The Montana-born author/cowboy converts to Christianity. More
Cat.No: 20037
N. pl. Brown & Nourse Publishers, 1954. Hardcover. 61p., profusely illus. with Ray's b&w photos, excellent photography that is not well-reproduced. Find a garish bookplate laid down on a corner of the front endsheet (both endsheets show San Juan Bautista, different views). Very good copy of the second edition, revised..... More
Cat.No: 72799
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d. [1930]. Paperback. 128p., softbound in 7x5 inch wraps decorated in sepia and black. A rolled textblock with other mild signs of handling, covers slightly dusty, a good (good-only) copy: structurally not at risk, otherwise clean, and free of markings. Laid in on 7x4.5 inch..... More
Cat.No: 314867
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xiv, 258p., hardcover; ownership stamp of Philip Choy, the architect better known as a Chinese American historian, on front endpaper; otherwise very good. Harvard East Asian monographs, 104. More
Cat.No: 252537
Paris: H. Oudin, Libraire-Éditeur, [1904]. viii+321p., 8x11.25 inches, unopened pages, text in French illustrated with photos, figures and maps, in lightly-worn original cream wraps printed in red and black. More
Cat.No: 109462
Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2014. Hardcover. 172p., very good hardcover, including facsimiles of images from the atlas. Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series, vol. 11. More
Cat.No: 264186
Boston: Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, [190-]. 8p., staplebound booklet, mild handling wear. Undated, but a 1906 report of the WFMS reports favorably on a performance. Script for a re-enactment of a Chinese wedding and the celebrations for the birth of a son and daughter. Includes a cultural note at the..... More
Cat.No: 250318
Taipei: Victor Chen, 1983. Hardcover. xvii, 202p + [36]p. of plates., cloth-covered boards, 6x8.5 inches, frontis. portrait of Ripa, maps, old bookstore sticker on rear paste-down endpaper else very good condition in like dj. Text in French. More
Cat.No: 269453
Upland, CA: A.I.C. International Christian Ministries, nd. Ephemera. 8.5x11 inch letter and handbill of the accused fraud and staunch anti-Catholic activist, Dr. Alberto R. Rivera. Rivera was formerly a catholic priest in Spain, until a mystical experience turned him against his Catholic beliefs. He accused the Vatican of freemasonry and..... More
Cat.No: 302745
Santa Cruz, CA: Calvary Episcopal Church, [c1994]. Pamphlet. 26p., 5.5x8.5 inches; somewhat handled, else in very good condition. Signed and dated by the author. Autobiographical stories of the childhood of an American missionary woman in the Congo including poems, two stories about medical emergencies, and more. The title, "For Rwanda,"..... More
Cat.No: 282069
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2007. Hardcover. xiii, 178p., cloth-covered boards, 11.25x11.25 inches, profusely illus., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 274554