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187 pages. Map. Black and white photographic section. "Information on Indians, missionaries, ranching, transportation, education, homesteading, postal service, place names, and churches. Devoted primarily to biographies. Concentrates on the period prior to 1930. Discusses the districts of Battle Hill, Dalum, Dead Horse Lake, Drumheller, Gleichen, Hammer Hill, Knee Hill Mines, and Rosebud Creek." - Krotki 674. Average wear. Binding intact. Exterior tanned with age and soiling. A sound reference copy. Book
297p., illus. Diary of Catholic nun working in the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands, ca. 1934-36 Hardcover Very good condition. blue cloth edges wearing
249 pages. A journey, a story about a dwindling race. The story of the Peace, and of one of the pioneers who could never leave. Light wear. Gift inscription upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Some curling to front cover. Includes black and white illustrations. Book
228 pages plus appendices. The story of the Scarboro Mission to China. Black and white illustrations. "A sober but nevertheless moving account of the people who, at their best, had an awesome respect for the tradition and potential of an amazing country and a remarkable people. Prior owner's name atop title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
pp. viii, 199 + 16 pages of photographs. 8vo. 215 mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very Good. From the dust jacket: "Crusade Against Hunger is the story of a unique and little known group of Americans who are engaged in a pioneering project as important as that of the Peace Corps, and in existence for many more years." RELIGION 10
64 pages. Index. Recommended reading list. Black and white illustrations. "In 1892 Grenfell set sail for Labrador, and devoted the rest of his life to the Labrador Mission." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Sound 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
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
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
72 pages. Features: 10 questions for Rudy Giuliani; Hamas' French Funds?; Chief Justice Rehnquist; How U.S. forces grabbed Saddam's right-hand man and launched a dragnet for the dictator and his loyalists; Iyman Faris and the triple-life of an al Qaeda man; China lectures Cuba on human rights; Whale conservationalists win big round in Japan; Tony Blair - downhill from here; Christian missionaries undercover in Muslim lands; Canada's acceptance of gay marriage; The globalization of the David Beckham brand; Architect Zaha Hadid - Busting the Box. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
260pp. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
12p. Small 4to. Original printed wraps, small stain on front cover. PA PAMPH 20_8 BX6
Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey. Book
397p., illus. by James Finnemore Hardcover Very good condition
PARIS, Pro. de France des Pères blancs - 1937 - 2 frontispices - Lettrines - Culs-de-lampe - Très nombreuses photographies NB PP HT - rousseurs éparses aux premières & dernières pages - 288 + 10 pages - bon exemplaire
143 pages plus 276 black and white photographic plates. Index. Contents include: Saint Patrick and the Pagans; Columcille; The Great Missionaries; The Fall of the Celtic Church; The Vikings of Ireland. Average wear. Usual library markings. Sturdy green buckram library binding. A sound working 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
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and 2 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly faded else a near fine copy.
52 pages. Features: Sports and Showbiz news; Playtex ad features sepia-toned photo of snow-shoeing women; Gordon Sinclair describes backstage antics at TV's "Front Page Challenge"; Behind the Scenes of Canada's Zesty TV Season; Is Wife-Stealing Really a Crime? - over $250k has been paid for wooing other men's wives over the past 10 years in Canada; Liberty's Annual All-Canada TV Talen Awards; Boom-Boom Geoffrion - Hockey's Gay-Blade TV Troubador - photo-illustrated article; Joyce Davidson describes her splash into U.S. Television on CBS's 'PM East'; Showmanship stunts of Canada's Local TV Stations; What Makes TV's Tommy Ambrose Bounce?; Are Canada's Church Missionaries Obsolete Soul-Hunters?; Photos of Canada's 10 Best Dressed Women - Joan McCormick, Mrs. George Ibsen, Mrs. H.J. Spooner, Marie Hohtanz, Mrs. L.G. DesBrisay, Mrs. Mona Cozart, Geraldine Nelson, Mrs. Joy McGillawee, Helene Winston and Mrs. Lisa Taylor; Nice color one-page ad for the 1962 Chevrolet Impala 6-passenger station wagon (blue), pictured at a winter scuba-diving scene; Rare one-page colour-photo Molson's Canadian ad features large photo of new B.C. ferry, the 'City of Victoria'; Coke ad on back cover features young couple in Valentine's Day motif. Moderate wear. Some soiling to back cover. Small date stamp on front cover. One-inch opening to lower corner of front cover and first three pages. A quality vintage copy. Book
Presentation plate dated 1940 on ffep. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright faintly marked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 95pages + 96pp. Two books in one, Samuel Marsden and George Augustus Selwyn. A classic account of the colonisation of New Zealand, first by the Maoris and then by white missionaries.
Issoudun, Archiconfrerie de N.D. du Sacré-Coeur & Dillen, 1953. In-12 broché, 48 pages et 8 hors-textes d'illustrations.
181 p. + Frontis. Large type. Pages browned, but not brittle. 12 mo. 190 mm. Cloth backed, yellow printed and illustrated paper boards. Price sticker removed from front board. David Zeisberger (1721-1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the early American Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and another near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. He was also a translator of their language. Scarce. W19 Stand
32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
