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Second Series
EDITED BY FRANCES ANN BUDGE SECONDHAND COPY. Fairly nice condition, spotting on blue cover (coffee?) but good inside. Second Series reprinted from Friends Qtly examiner. Has biographies of Richard Davies, Isaac and Mary Penington, Alexander Jaffray, William Crouch, John Whiting, John Burnyeat, Thomas Chalkey.
Henry Longstreth: Philadelphia 1880 174 PP. Cloth
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The Secret Gospel Of Thomas
BY ELAINE PAGELS SECONDHAND COPY. Good condition with dust jacket. With the spiritual shock she felt when her infant son was diagnosed with a fatal condition, Elaine Pagels sets out again on an academic yet personal quest, through early Christian writings and archeology to find the true message of Jesus. She found it in the Gospel of Thomas in phrases like "there is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness." This book carries on where her book Gnostic Gospels of 1979 left off, a book in which she studies other Gnostic texts and New Testament archeology.
Random House 2005 257 PP. Cloth
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ELKINTON,J SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly worn. Good condition. A collection of the essays and personal observations, including doodles, of the Westtown and Harvard educated Quaker doctor. A restless and open mind ranges over topics from internal medicine, to travels from England to China and from Darwin to Quarks.
The Cottage Press 1988 257 PP. Paper
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BY E STJOHN CATCHPOOL A good contender for "most bland cover" and "poorest binding" awards of 1966, but the contents - a biography of a very busy and well travelled Friend makes for interesting reading. Founder of the Youth Hostel Association, he was active in mediation in Russia, in disaster relief in Japan and had adventures in Africa and America as well. Illustrated Poor condition paperback, SECONDHAND COPY.
Bannisdale Press 1966 263 PP. Paper
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BY JIM WALLIS, JOYCE HOLLYDAY SECONDHAND COPY. Fair condition, paperback Potted biographies of notable peacemakers and activists \: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI, DOROTHY DAY, JEAN VANIER, ELIAS CHACOUR, PENNY LERNOUX: A Journey of Trust by Tom Fox, JOAN CHITTISTER, HENRI NOUWEN, PEDRO ARRUPE, FANNIE LOU HAMER, HOWARD THURMAN, THOMAS MERTON: A Noisy Vocation in the Silent Life by Jim Forest amongst many others.
Orbis 1994 290 PP. Paper
The Social History Of A Chinese Custom
BY MARIA JASCHOK SECONDHAND. Paperback in fair condition. A look at the near slavery practice of Concubines and Bondservants - A custom till very recently in China.
Zed Press 1988 156 PP. Paper
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An Interim Report On A Theological Journey
BY MARY MCDERMOTT SHIDELER SECONDHAND. Fair condition hardback. Reading copy. Interesting topic -Do it yourself theology! Quakers being a bit short of theology will maybe find this especially useful.
Eerdmans 1970 198 PP. Cloth
BY C J CHERRYH Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.
Various Publishers 1985 184 PP. Cloth
BY JOAN SLONCZEWSKI Reasonable condition paperback that somehow looks tatty even when brand new. Classic Sci fi tale about a pacifist, feminist world threatened by a invader. Quaker author and themes.
Orb 2000 403 PP. Paper
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BY MARGARET WEIS, TRACY HICKMAN Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.
Various Publishers 2000 548 PP. Cloth
BY EDWARD LOWBURY SECONDHAND. Eminent Welsh bacteriologist whose mercurial verse sprang from his faith in dream and intuition. (1913-2007) A selection of his poetry. Fair condition, very plain paperback. Was Elizabeth watsons copy.
Celtion Press 1978 96 PP. Paper
Quaker Heroine
BY JANET WHITNEY First American edition of this much reprinted biography. Was Lydia Stokes copy, Hardback with no dust jacket. Slightly scruffy cover but inside pages fair to good condition with no foxing. Large hardback, much nicer "library book feel" then many later reprints. Some illustrations and engravings at chapter beginnings. SECONDHAND BOOK.
Atlantic Monthly Press 1936 333 PP. Cloth
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EDITED BY ELLEN PAYNE PAULIN SECONDHAND. Magazine sized paperback, Was Elizabeth Watsons copy. Fulsome dedication from the editor. The journal of Etta Parkerson Reynolds (1853 -1899) of Manhattan, Kansas. An interesting history, no Quaker connection I could see. Illustrated.
Ellen Payne Paulin 1981 60 PP. Paper
BY LAWRENCE APSEY Paperback, fair condition. Signed by the author. The autobiography of a Quaker who worked for peace in many ways and in many places. In particular he was a leader in development of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and Children's Creative Response to Conflict (CCRC). SECONDHAND COPY.
Kim Pathways 1991 272 PP. Paper
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BY ALAN REEVE HUNT, PAUL LACEY SECONDHAND. Pamphlet published in 1957. Topical then! Probably still is now, some history going back to Lilburne and the Penn/Meade trial, and contemporary analysis.
Civil Liberties Committee of PYM 1957 32 PP. Paper
100 Years (1900-2000)
BY THE FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION A special issue of Quaker History published on the occasion of the anniversary of FGC. Contributors include Deborah Haines, Thomas Hamm, Mary Ellen Singsen and Chuck Fager.
Friends Historical Association 2000 76 PP. Paper
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The Growth Of An Idea
BY JULIET REEVE SECONDHAND. Nice copy, no dust jacket. Howard McKinneys bookplate. First edition. The story of Friends University in Wichita, Kansas to 1948. Illustrated with black and white photos.
Friends University 1948 320 PP. Cloth
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BY HANNAH TILLICH SECONDHAND. Slightly curling hardback with tatty but extant dust jacket. Good reading copy. Autobiogarphy of the wife of Paul Tillich, covering there time in Germany and escape to America and subsequent life there. Not just a shadow of her husband, a moving story of both lives.
Stein and Day 1973 252 PP. Cloth
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BY MARY BUSHKOVITCH Large heavy (3 lb !) novel based on the life of the Grimke sisters of S Carolina. The author spent 20 years researching the sisters lives before writing this-her first and only novel. Good condition with torn dust jacket.SECOND HAND BOOK
Southern Historical Press 1992 695 PP. Cloth
Franklin, Penn, Woolman
BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN WOOLMAN, WILLIAM PENN SECONDHAND COPY. Fair condition for reading, but cover loose and tatty round the edges. First of a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot . Has his edits of Benjamin Franklins Journal, Woolmans Journal and Penn's Fruits of solitude.
P F Collier 1909 415 PP. Cloth
Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-colonel On The Staff Of His Excellency George Washington.
BY WEIR MITCHELL SECONDHAND. Two matching hardback volumes, in gray cloth stamped in red, gilt and dark gray. 306pp., and 261 pp., Illustrated frontispieces by Howard Pyle. Top edge gilt, others uncut. First Edition. Printed by the De Vinne Press. Good condition, but volume one has last two pages torn and repaired with tape. Top and bottom of spines shows wear. Much reprinted in book on demand format. The life of Hugh Wynne -a free Quaker who fought in the civil war.
New Century 1897 Cloth
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The Life Of Abby Kelley Foster
BY MARGARET HOPE BACON SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly torn jacket. Good condition Written in the lively and accessible style well known to readers of Bacon's books Abbey Foster comes alive as the prototypical Quaker activist, strong enough to discipline even her fiery anti-clerical husband Stephen Foster (not the song writer). After her first important speech on slavery the hall was burned down, but she continued on to a life of uninterrupted and principled work on behalf of the rights of African Americans and women.
Thomas Y Crowell Co 1974 235 PP. Cloth
INDIAN LITERATURE MAGAZINE SECONDHAND. Indian Printing, fair condition as reading copy. Was Elizabeth Watsons copy. A special edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Many articles by scholars of Tagore.
Sahitya Akademi 1961 221 PP. Paper
Metaphor As Myth And As Religion
BY JOSEPH CAMPBELL SECONDHAND. Fair condition, good reading copy. Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
Harper Perennial 1988 152 PP. Paper
The Quaker Indicted By Parliament
BY WILLIAM G BITTLE SECONDHAND COPY. Used but in unread condition. With previous owners sticker: A scholarly biography with bibliography, notes and an appendix of 35 interesting tables of this controversial (and one of the tenderest) early Friend.
Sessions of York 1986 240 PP. Paper
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BY ROBERT HEINLEIN Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.
Various Publishers 1984 308 PP. Cloth
A Novel
BY JAMES MICHENER Fair condition, hardback with dust jacket. Literary guild edition. Here the Quaker novelist writes about the gold rush in the Yukon and the amazing characters who rushed there in search of gold. SECONDHAND BOOK
Random House 1988 244 PP. Cloth
BY CAROLYN J. WEEKLEY This is the first book to chronicle the career and life of Edward Hicks, one of America's most beloved folk artists, and thoughtfully integrate and discuss his secular and religious concerns as they affected his artistic production, particularly the creation of his "Peaceable Kingdom" paintings. A Quaker, Hicks expressed his religious beliefs by depicting an idealized view of the world as he believed it should-and could-have been. Good condition, dust jacket a little more worn than the book itself. SECONDHAND COPY.
Abrams 1999 254 PP. Cloth
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BY JAN DE HARTOG Quite good condition with dust Jacket. One of Quaker novelist Jan de Hartogs Quaker novels it is set in Nazi occupied Europe and the American South West. A Quaker pacifist ambulance driver meets a Dutch friend in a concentration camp and a romance ensues, but is far from a simple happy story. Book Club edition.SECOND HAND BOOK
Harper and Row 1979 465 PP. Cloth
Yet Another Disc World Novel
BY TERRY PRATCHETT Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.
Various Publishers 1998 293 PP. Cloth
James Nayler, 1618-1660 (311)
Friends General Conference (204)
The Kingdoms Of Edward Hicks (312)
Penn (13000)
The Quaker Approach To Contemporary Problems. (13013)
Annals Of The Early Friends (78)
Harvard Classics !st Volume (91)
