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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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A most attractive Common Prayer, Bible and Psalms
The Booke Of Common Prayer (1611) / The Bible (1610) / The Whole Booke Of Psalmes (1619)
$6,109.98 *
* estimated currency conversionA most attractive Common Prayer, Bible and Psalms bound in a single volume, professionally and sympathetically restored in 1993 by Brignell Bookbinders of Cambridge. Large 4to format (c.280x170mm), in heavy full leather boards, with tarnished gilt to all edges of block.The Booke Of Common Prayer, With The Psalter Or Psalmes Of David. Of That Translation Which Is Appointed To Be Used In Churches. Robert Barker, 1611. The Bible, That Is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages, Robert Barker, 1610.The Whole Booke Of Psalmes. Collected, Into English Meeter, By Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins, and others: Conferred with the Hebrew, with apt Notes to Sing them withall. Printed for the Companie of Stationers 1619.Restoration work is largely confined to the first few pages of the Book of Common Prayer and the final few of the Psalms. The BCP woodcut title is relaid on a new sheet while the following few pages show edge repairs. This is all well done. There is some toning, occasional spotting and marking, as to be expected, but in general all is in good internal order. Occasional marginal notes, but these infrequent. The Bible is likely Herbert 301 a reprint of Herbert 210 of 1592, with revised engraved title showing new Royal arms cut in to replace the dragon with the unicorn. This is repeated for the New Testament title. All follows in order from A2 to Nnnnn4 and the completion of the Second Table. Again all is in good order throughout, with occasional marking, minor edge loss and one or two small closed tears, but these minor. The copy of Sternhold’s psalms is close to the edition held by the University of Illinois (STC2563), which has pages 53 and 78 misnumbered as 35 and 87. In this imprint only 78 is so misnumbered. The psalms are presented in single column black letter, with musical notation, lacking leaf 150/151 and all matter after signature P5. The final two leaves present here have been well restored.All presented in heavy well worn leather with marbled endpapers, with matching paper used to cover strengthened hinges. Backstrip has been expertly relaid.
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Signed & Dated Five Days Prior to Publication
Half of a Yellow Sun
$400.00Fourth Estate, London, 2006. First U.K. edition and true first. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and named the “Best of the Best” of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize and Baileys Women’s Prize) in 2020, recognizing it as the best book to have won the prize in its 25-year history. Signed by the author and dated five days prior to the official publication date. Fine in fine dust wrapper, lightly crinkled at the spine tips.
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Signed by six members of the 1950 "Whiz Kids"
The Philadelphia Phillies.
$500.00G. P. Putnam’s Sons: New York (1953). Â First edition. Â Part of the “Putnam Sports Series”. Signed by six members of the “Whiz Kids”, the 1950 Phillies team which, despite a number of young players, unexpectedly won the National League pennant before losing the World Series to the Yankees. Players and their 1950 statistics are: Robin Roberts, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1976, winner of 20-games with a 3.02 ERA Richie Ashburn, Hall of Fame Center Fielder and two-time National League batting leader, hit .303 Del Ennis, Right Fielder who had more RBI than any player other than Stan Musial from 1949-1957, led the team with a .311 batting average, 31 home runs and 126 RBI Curt Simmons, starting pitcher who went 17-8 with a 3.40 ERA Eddie Waitkus, starting First Baseman, .284 batting average Granny Hamner, .starting Shortstop, 270 batting average, 70 RBI Mild toning to endpapers and pastedowns, a solid near fine copy in like dust wrapper
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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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