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New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [Lxvii], 1080 p. Codex Cumanicus. Prep. by Mustafa Argunsah - Galip Güner. First Edition. The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, designed to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Cumans, a nomadic Turkic people. TURKOLOGY Kuman / Kypchak Reference Turkic language Philology Linguistica Lexicon Siberia Central Asia.
222 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Norwegian missionaries were strategically located witnesses to history who recorded their observations and opinions of inter alia Zulu culture and religion, the impact of European civilisation on indigenous life, events surrounding the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, epidemics and natural disasters and the nascent Zulu church. This volume contains a translated and meticulously edited selection of the most revealing of these illuminating documents." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
223 pages. Signed by Editor upon title page. Black and white illustrations from photos in text. "The story of a brave and noble company of men and women, inspired by the love of Christ and committed to obeying His parting directive to His disciples, recorded in Mat. 28:18-20. The story is humbly told by members of the group of missionaries who went to the Belgian Congo in the first half of the 20th century." - from Foreword. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Pages 217-291. Features: Should Missionaries Teach English?; The English Teacher's "Mission" - A Round-Table Discussion; Chancellor-Evangelist-English Teacher - An interview with Tomio Muto; Anyone Interested in a Language Revolution?; Notes on An English Core Curriculum; Problems Facing Japanese Christianity Today; Japanese Values and Christian Mission; Dr. William Axling - The War Years; The Theology of "The Secular City"; "Here We Stand" in F.C.M.; The Book Shelf; The Listening Post. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 73-143. Features: Christians and Christian Nations; Japanese Churches and World War II; War and I; Policies for Peace in the Pacific; Vietnam- Dilemma for Missionaries; Reflections on the Students at Sasebo; Bainton Sketches Japan - an 8-page special feature of verse and pictures by Roland H. Bainton; Missionary Service in "Secular" Schools; Towards a Christian University in Japan; English and Indigenization; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Accursed and frightful Potter's Point - a look at the forerunners, and many times the sires of the later colorful and often dangerous people who made the Old West famous; Mud Glacier Gold - Marcum's lost gold in Alaska; Village of my red brother - Mormon Indian missionaries; Seattle's Little-known Dymano - Hans Pederson and the early development of Seattle; Battle of Prairie Dog Creek; The Solid Muldoon; Ghostly Fort Dilts; Coal Oil Jimmy's Gang; Geronimo's Long Debt for a Pony - Jimmy Stevens; Missouri Scout - Greyson Welsh; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
409 pages. Dr. McClure's attractive signature upon half-title page. "This book started out to be a full biography of Dr. Bob McClure from his birth in 1900 up to the present time. It gradually transformed itself into something that may seem to fall halfway between an adventure story and a history of China through the first half of the twentieth century." - from Foreward. Prior owner's neatly written gift greetings upon half-title page which has a small piece cleanly clipped from top corner. Maps printed upon endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Excellent copy. Book
116 pages. Many archival black and white illustrations. Signed by Frances Duncan upon title page. "These tales do not give a complete history of Salmon River and the first people who came to settle along its banks. They were written that the memory of those who prepared the way for us to follow will not be forgotten, and by sharing their experiences, hopes and fears, we might be richer in understanding the land in which we live." - from Introduction. Signed by both author's upon title page. Prior owner's small name stamp to blank first leaf otherwise unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
176 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. The powerful store of two missionaries of the Mennonite Brethren Church who served in Columbia. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy. Book
44 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Steveston - A Splendid Opening for a Capitalist; Murder in the Arctic - Oblate Missionaries Rouviere and LeRoux are killed; Old Fort Macleod - Southern Alberta's first white settlement; Old Man Green's Missing Hoard - Murder on Savory Island, near Lund, B.C.; Nightmare Pass Through the Rocky Mountains. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates, a double-page plan and large folding coloured map (neatly repaired at fold); original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in yellow and black, gilt back, uncut, very neatly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy.
395 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out map. Usual library markings. Heavily worn. A worthy reading copy. Wickersham 1479. Book
95 pages. "Years lived on the north China plain have given the author an intimate acquaintance with demonic power and its manifestations, along with the superstitions of popular Buddhism." - from front flap. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
347 pages. Index. Selected Bibliography. Footnotes. "Follows Caroline Macdonald's life and career, focusing primarily on her work in Japan on behalf of incarcerated criminals... (Macdonald) also established a social settlement, Shinrinkan - the Home of the Friendless Stranger - and was a mentor of labour union leaders and social democratic politicians." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Light overall wear with some bumping to bottom edge of boards. A sound copy. Book
315 p. Foxed. 8vo. 24 cm. Disbound. The copy of D.H. Landis "Indian Historian and Book Collector" with his pencil notes. Maryland Historical Society, Fund-Publication, No. 9. An important collection of documents relating to the earliest political, missionary, military, and cultural history of Lord Baltimore's Colony. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W141
56 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Black and white illustrations. Contents: Hurons and Missionaries; Founding of the Fort; Completion of the Fort; A Huron Pilgrim Shrine; Destruction of the Fort; The Old Fort Reappears; The Shrine Restored; Excavations of Old Fort Ste. Marie. Average wear and soilling. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Honours and documents Our Lady's Missionaries of Alexandria, Ontario. Unmarked with average wear. Tanning to portions of cream-coloured covers. A sound vintage copy. Book
38 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. Contents: Melanope - The Ship of Tragedy; Time, and the Indian; Panechates, Son of Hatres; The Pleistocene, or Ice Age of South-West British Columbia; Birds in the Cariboo; The Fine Arts; The Museum is a School of Visual Education; The Cinder Cone Buried Forest, Garibaldi Park, British Columbia; Pioneer Wesleyan Missionaries in British Columbia. Average wear. Binding intact. Moisture marks to periphery of all pages and covers - legibility unaffected. A worthy copy of this informative issue. Book
295 pages. Large and attractive signatures of McClure and author upon half-title page. The second half of Dr. "Bob" McClure's remarkable career unfolds in this final volume of a two-part biography. McClure was a great Canadian and an inspiration to many. Dust jacket with numerous tears and chunk missing from back. Spine leans slightly to right. Book
43 pages. Nicely illustrated juvenile literature. "An adventure that will inspire young and old alike: Livingstone's determination to reach his goal, his humility and love for the African people and his storng faith in God." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
99 pages. Undated. Circa 1970s? Contents include: Beginnings; Place Names of the Red Deer District; Student Missionaries; Farming; Politics; Bachelors; Fun and Frolic; Short Shorts; Indians - Their Myths and Traditions; Our Cairn. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
316 pages including index. Beginning with the pre-history of the Nez Perce, he relates how, after being pedestrians for eight thousand years, acquisition of the horse radically altered their way of life. Then in rapid succession, came firearms, American explorers, British fur traders, the Manifest Destiny struggle, missionaries, Oregon Trail emigrants, settlers, gold miners, farmers, and finally war. Includes many archival photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Book
187 pages including index. A book of tribute to missionary women of the West Coast as researched and recalled by the author. Relates the experiences of the early missionary wives, teachers, nurses and other dedicated women who devoted their lives to the people living in isolation on lighthouses, in logging camps, and frontier and Native villages. Faintest wear. Unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
435 pages. For twelve arduous but captivating years, Raymond de Coccola was, for all intents and purposes, a Barren Land Eskimo. An unforgettable portrait of adventure, of murder, of sexual mores. It is Father Raymond's touching first-person revelation of birth and of death, of patience and of fatalism; and it is a staggering account of his people's tragedy and loss. It is also a story of survival and hope. Bookplate upon front flyleaf. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Reading creases along spine. Includes a large assortment of excellent black and white plates. Book
117 pages. Author spent 18 years in China where she and her husband were missionaries and where their two children were reared. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book