The fourth wall: Jerusalem and China
New York: Mount Zion Fellowship, [198-]. 250p., lightly shelfworn wraps. American missionary describes her efforts to proselytize in China and Hong Kong in the 1980s. More
Cat.No: 192052
New York: Mount Zion Fellowship, [198-]. 250p., lightly shelfworn wraps. American missionary describes her efforts to proselytize in China and Hong Kong in the 1980s. More
Cat.No: 192052
Germany and Kowloon, Hong Kong: Evangelisches Missionswerk and Asia Monitor Resource Center, Ltd, 1 December 1993. Pamphlet. 23p. + [2p.], stapled glossy pictorial wraps, 6x8.5 inches; in very good condition, with publisher's note laid in. Publishers note laid in by the AMRC Editorial Board telling the reader that the illustrated..... More
Cat.No: 278746
Singapore: Malaysian Signs Press, 1972. 96p., numerous b&w snapshot and group portrait photos, glossy 8.5x5.5 inch color pictorial boards, a very good copy. Seventh-day Aventist. "A separate Chinese edition is being prepared for publication" More
Cat.No: 162101
London: SCM Press Ltd., 1958. Pamphlet. 30p., wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. I.M.C. Research Pamphlets No. 6. Study of an Anglican missionary working in a church in Uganda. More
Cat.No: 238980
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Paperback. viii, 228p., illustrated with a few period images and two modern line maps, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated glossy wraps. Perfectly sound, clean and unmarked; a fine copy. More
Cat.No: 280156
Waco, TX: Baylor University, 1990. xvi, 242p., very good in wraps, inscribed by the author. Third edition. More
Cat.No: 159665
Huntington, IN: Domestic, Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society of the United Brethren in Christ, [not before 1947]. Staplebound. 58, [6]pp., illustrations, wraps. 7 x 5 in. Report on the travels of Reverend Towne, who visited Honduras with his family to witness the missionary work of the United Brethren. With several..... More
Cat.No: 304815
Emmetsburg, IA: Velde Press, 1982. Paperback. 184p., wraps, 4.5x7 inches, illus., previous owner's name penned on verso of front wrap, old price stickers on title page and rear wrap, else very good condition; signed by Iglesias on the title page. Biography of Alcibiades "Lonnie" Iglesias, a Kuna (now spelled Guna..... More
Cat.No: 288953
Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000. 201p., very good paperback. More
Cat.No: 263797
Tulsa, OK: self-published, n.d. [16p], stapled pamphlet, collection of Biblical quotations on the theme of love translated into Japanese. B&W portrait of the African-American author on cover. Ware, a graduate student in Japanese (and childhood friend of a Bolerium minion), heard God's voice tell him to drop everything and travel..... More
Cat.No: 123172
Watford, Herts. Stanborough Press, 1938. 96p., paperback, black and white photos; personal ownership label inside cover, numerals penned at bottom of spine. Colonial-era adventure stories featuring missionaries in Africa, China, the South Seas, etc. More
Cat.No: 230277
Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. 111p., 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with Wax's color photos, very good first edition in boards and unclipped lightly-worn dj. Images of America. More
Cat.No: 52899
[San Diego]: California Mission Studies Association, 1992. 23p., 5.5x8.5 inches, introduction, notes, illustrated with six b&w photos and a plan, very good first edition booklet in stapled glossy white pictorial wraps. CMSA Keepsake #1. First in a series that became the Occasional papers. More
Cat.No: 218468
Hot Springs, SD: Wesleyan Indian Ministries, [1982]. Newspaper. [8]p., folded tabloid format, evenly toned, front wrap lightly foxed along spine, address label, pen notation, and 0.5 inch closed tear on front wrap, top corner of front wrap chipped, else good condition. The Wesleyan Indian Ministries ran the Brainerd Indian School..... More
Cat.No: 242121
Louvain, Belgium: Museum Lessianum, 1934. Paperback. 238p. + [1]p. of plates, two fold-out maps, wraps, 6x9.25 inches, wraps worn and toned, sticker on front wrap, neatly ex-library with ownership stamp on half-title and copyright page else good condition. Text in French. Museum Lessianum-Section Missiologique, No. 19. The mission was on..... More
Cat.No: 265063
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1904. 93p., stiff card wraps, 4.75 x 7.25 inches, wraps worn and soiled, a few small stains on rear wrap else very good condition. None in OCLC as of 8/2020. Criticism of the American evangelist Dr. R. A. Torrey, who, along with his partner..... More
Cat.No: 255398
London: Macmillan & Co., 1955. ix+64p., 5x7.25 inches, frontis-portrait of Bishop Tucker, general preface, introduction, footnotes, conclusion very good first edition in original stapled wraps. A Treasury of East African History & EALB. More
Cat.No: 110842
Kanzawa: Hokkoku Shinbunsha 北國新聞社, 2009. Hardcover. 181p. Illustrated. Text in Japanese and English. Fine. Inscribed and signed by Yvonne Nimnicht Beckman (daughter of the author and photographer). "An excerpt from a collection of letters" written from the author while she was in Noto Japan to her parents (living in Berkeley..... More
Cat.No: 207005
Shanghai: Mercury Press, 1949. Paperback. 162p., pictorial wraps, evenly toned with light handling wear. Vignettes on Chinese culture, including Christian convert life, by an author who later moved to San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 196361
Shanghai: Mercury Press, 1949. Hardcover. [viii], 162p. Black cloth spine, pictorial boards. Very good. Slight wear to edges. bit of age-toning to pages. Appears to have been rebound, affixing the front front and rear covers to the boards in a relatively professional treatment. Vignettes on Chinese culture, including Christian convert..... More
Cat.No: 206994
Shanghai: Qing nian xie hui shu ju 青年協會書局, 1948. Paperback. 4, 26, 294, 2 pages, very good paperback, Fifth edition. English title, "Life of Jesus," on publisher's colophon. Qing nian cong shu / Youth library, 22. Zhao spent several years in the United States, earning M.A. and B.D. degrees from..... More
Cat.No: 224809
Shanghai: Mission Book Company, n.d. viii, 99p., slender hardcover, couple of small scars to cloth, interior very good. Fourth impression. Undated; the ""most up-to-date bibliography" lists publications up to 1927. Overview of Confucianism, intended to reveal its inadequacies as compared with Christianity. Preface by Frank Rawlinson and introduction by Bishop..... More
Cat.No: 218591