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The Nature and Destiny of Man
$600.00
Niebuhr, Reinhold
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949. Â First one volume edition.
Signed and inscribed by Niebuhr, adding “I try in this volume to explain that the meaning of life for the individual and the whole of mankind is found in the love as it is revealed in Christ.”
An important and revealing copy of this landmark of twentieth-century thought.
Exploring the complexities of human nature and the philosophical and theological implications of humanity’s existence, the Nature and Destiny of Man was rated number 18 of the Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction works in the 20th century.  “A collection of theological lectures delivered by Niebuhr in 1939, The Nature and Destiny of Man tackles the Christian concept of human nature, the powerlessness of man, and Christianity’s impact on human history. Delivered just before the outbreak of World War II, these lectures were so influential that Cold War containment policies and aspects of realpolitik can be traced back to them. Highly recommended for fans of ontology.”
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Extravagantly produced woodcuts with Biblical text
The Book Of Ruth
$2,367.84 *
* estimated currency conversionNo.103 from an edition of 125, this extravagantly produced boxed set of 18 colour woodcuts, each signed by Grunberg, is in fine/as new condition throughout. Each image is accompanied by Hebrew biblical text from the book of Ruth, and a free translation into English by Linda Zisquit who also provides an introduction. Each woodcut sheet is c.45x50cm with text facing. Smart black folio box, with purple lining, and bright gilt titling to front and spine.Â
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Leather Bound Collection of Pamphlets Relating to New Hampshire and Massachusetts
$250.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
Dates span from 1821 to 1834. Quarter brown leather bound marble paper covered boards with seven gilt rules and gilt “Miscellany” to spine. Wear to exterior includes rubbing and browning as well as bumping to corners revealing boards. Crack to front hinge though binding remains tight and secure. Browning and foxing throughout though text remains bright. Hand-written list of titles on second front end paper. One pamphlet is inscribed by the author. An important piece of New England history. List of titles below: Come and See. The Duty of Those Who Dislike and Dread the Sentiments of Other Christians. By Wm. B. O. Peabody. Springfield. 1833. Sermon of the Signs of the Times, in Relation to Revealed Religion: Preached at Concord, N. H. Dec 23, 1832. By Moses G. Thomas. Concord: Moses G. Atwood, 1832. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Sermon Delivered at the Installation of Rev A. Dumont Jones, Over the Congregational church in Wilton, January 1, 1834. By Rev. Nathaniel Cage. Nashua, NH, 1834. Charge. By Rev. Isaac Allen of Bolton, Mass. Circa 1830s. Letter to Governor Lincoln in Relation to Harvard University from F. C. Gray. Boston: Carter, Hendee and Babcock, 1831. A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the Meetinghouse of the Keene Congregation Society, April 28, 1830. By T. R. Sullivan. Keene, NH, 1830 A Sermon, Preached at  Needham, December 12, 1821, at the Installation the Installation of the Rev. William Ritchie, as Pastor of the First Church and Society in That Town. By David T. Kimball. Dedham, 1822. Charge. By Rev. L. Newell, of Stow. 1832. Right Hand of Fellowship. By Rev. Thomas Noyes, Pastor of the Second Church in Needham. 1832. Eulogy on Lafayette, Delivered at Concord, Agreeably to the Resolve of the New-Hampshire Legislature, on the 17th of June, 1835. By Nathaniel G. Pham. Concord, 1835. Report of the Select Committee to the House of Representatives upon the Subject of Building an Insane Hospital. Concord, NH, 1832. An Oration Delivered at Keene, N. H., February 22, 1832, Being the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth-Day of Washington. By Salma Hale. Keene, NH, 1832. An Address, Delivered Before the New-Hampshire Lyceum, at the Representatives Hall Concord; at Their First Annual Meeting, June 6, 1833. By Reverend Jonathan Clement. Concord, 1833. An Exposure of the Principles of the ‘Free Inquirer.’ By S. Everett. Boston, 1831. Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society. Boston, May 24, 1831. Boston, 1831. Seventeenth Report of the Directors of the American Asylum at Hartford, for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, Exhibited to the Asylum, May 11, 1833. Hartford, 1833
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Signed by First Southern Pulitzer Winning Novelist
Black April
$800.00Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with ‘ducks quacked’ on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  “An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation” signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was “accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro” (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear. Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, “Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration. Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic. In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain. Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about ‘beautiful white men and women, not n-words.’  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, ‘No beautiful white people live in my head.'” (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).
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Inscribed & Dated in Year of Publication
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
$500.00Princeton University Press, 2016. Â First Edition. Inscribed, signed and dated in year of publication by Penrose, winner of 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. Fine in nearly fine dust wrapper with light crinkling to spine tip and rear corner.
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