Latest books 23 February 2009
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[510791] Taylor, John B. A Christian’s Guide to The Old Testament. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. Paperback. Good . 94 pages. GBP 1.75
[510797] Buckland, Ron. Amos: Bible Probes Series. London: Falcon, 1974. First Edition (British). Pamphlet. Average+ ISBN: 0854910891. . 32 pages. GBP 0.75
[003644] Hughes, Selwyn. Understanding Faith. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: CWR, 1991. Paperback. Good ISBN: 1853450499. . 89 pages, previous owner’s address label to bottom of front cover. GBP 1.00
[003646] Hughes, Selwyn. Understanding Guidance. Sunbury-on-Thames: CWR, 1990. Paperback. Average ISBN: 1853450375. . 93 pages, previous owner’s address label to bottom of front cover. GBP 1.00
[003652] Tinker, Melvin (ed). Wisdom to Live By: Living Biblically in A Complex World. Tain, United Kingdom: Christian Focus Publications, 1998. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 1857925025. . 191 pages. GBP 1.75
[003661] Phillip, James. Up Against It: Conquering Your Spiritual Difficulties. Tain: Christian Focus Publications, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Average ISBN: 1871676541. . 207 pages, previous owner’s address label to bottom of front cover. GBP 1.00
[003665] Philip, George Mackenzie. Right Relationships: 2 Sermons. Glasgow: Pamphlet. Average . 22 pages, previous owner’s address label to bottom of front cover. GBP 0.55
[450638] Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Around the Wicket Gate. Tain: Christian Focus Publications, 1987. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0906731542. . 66 pages. To encourage those who linger around the gate to come in. GBP 1.50
[450641] Anon. The Short Life of Bernie Van Asperen; and The Bible of Shepherdsdale. Pamphlet. Good . 47 pages, one Dutch and one Waldensian story. GBP 0.75
[450643] Walden, Viola. Amazing Power of the Gospel in Print. Murfreesboro: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1965. Paperback. Good . 160 pages, letters received by the ministry of John R Rice regarding the effects of their literature. GBP 1.25
[003691] Goldsmith, Elizabeth. Getting There from Here: Mission Possible. Bromley: MARC Europe, 1986. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0947697233. . 160 pages. Directions to young people whose hearts and minds are moving them towards the mission field. GBP 1.00
[003700] Pickering, Henry. Head Heart and Hand: Original Object Lessons. London: Pickering and Inglis, 1976. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0720800242. . 96 pages. Pages loose. GBP 0.75
[003702] Maust, John. New Songs in the Andes. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1992. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0878082190. . 143 pages, work among the Quichua people in the Chimborazo area of Ecuador. Previous owners names to cover/endpaper, otherwise good condition. GBP 1.00
[510855] Earle, Ralph. Mark: The Gospel of Action (Everyman’s Bible Commentary Ser.). Chicago: Moody Press, 1970. Paperback. Average Minus ISBN: 0802420419. . 127 pages, a few pages loose. GBP 0.75
[003648] Hughes, Selwyn. A New Heart. Eastbourne: Kingsway, 1982. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0860651991. . 96 pages, previous owner’s address label to top of front cover. GBP 1.00
[003571] Redwood, Hugh. Two Minutes More. London: National Sunday School Union, 1943. 32mo - over 4″ - 5″ tall. Hard Cover. Poor . 63 pages, little book, part of spine missing, covers worn, a one minute sermon and a one minute prayer for each day for a month. A companion to “Two Minutes with God”. GBP 1.00
[007297] Rutherford, Samuel; Bonar, Andrew A (preface and notes). Fourteen Communion Sermons. Glasgow: Charles Glass & Co, 1878. Second and Enlarged Edition. Cloth. Average Minus ISBN: . . 362 pages, covers worn and stained, cloth spine taped, shaken and with a little foxing/grubbiness. GBP 9.50
[007298] MacBeath, John. What is His Name?. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1931. Cloth. Average Plus . 160 pages, 10 chapters on the Jehovah names (e.g. Jehovah-Jireh, Jehovah-Nissi). Undated but library catalogues give an estimated date of 1931. GBP 9.50
[007299] Lamb, William; Hewat, Kirkwood (ed). M’Cheyne from the Pew: Being Extracts from the Diary of William Lamb Abridged and Edited. Stirling: Drummond’s Tract Depot, 1896. Cloth. Average Minus . 160 pages, covers damp-stained (no smell), foxed. Undated but about 100 years old. GBP 3.75
[007300] Meyer, Frederick Brotherton. The Way Into the Holiest: Expositions of the Epistle to the Hebrews. London: Morgan and Scott, 1900. Cloth. Average Minus . 234 pages. Dark red cloth (a bit stained) with gilt lettering. Edges foxed. Undated but almost certainly over 100 years old. GBP 3.75
[007301] Jowett, John Henry. Brooks by the Traveller’s Way: Twenty-Six Weeknight Addresses. London: H R Allenson, Limited, 1925. Seventh Edition. Cloth. Average Plus . 280 pages, good sized print; undated, but flyleaf inscribed John J Nimmo, 1925. GBP 4.75
[007302] Frazer, Alexander. The Gospel of the Dawn: A Series of Gospel, Convention and other Addresses. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1939. Cloth. Average . 144 pages. Messages preached at various conventions, etc, especially Portstewart Convention. This copy undated. Alexander Frazer was a minister in Tain, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glen Urquhart. GBP 1.75
[007303] Law, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co, 1900. Cloth. Average . 287 pages, edges and endpapers foxed. Undated but probably about 100 years old. GBP 1.75
[007304] Smith, John Taylor; Ruoff, Percy O (compiler). Gems from Bishop Taylor Smith’s Bible. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1939. Cloth. Average / Average. . 142 pages, comments gathered from Bishop Taylor Smith’s wide margin Bible. John Taylor Smith (1860-1938) was bishop of Sierra Leone and a regular speaker at the Keswick Convention. GBP 1.75
[007306] Manson, William; Lampe, Geoffrey William Hugo; Torrance, Thomas Forsyth; Whitehouse, Walter Alexander. Eschatology: Four papers read to the Society for the Study of Theology (Scottish Journal of Theology Occasional Papers No 2). Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Paperback. Good . 90 pages. Manson: Eschatology in the New Testament; Lampe: Early Patristic Eschatology; Torrance: Eschatology of the Reformation; Whitehouse: Modern Discussion of Eschatology. GBP 3.75
[007307] Ryle, John Charles. Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots. London: James Clarke, 1956. Cloth. Average . 333 pages, edges foxed. GBP 3.75
[007308] Dickson, Nicholas. The Kirk and Its Worthies. London: T N Foulis, 1914. Hard Cover. Average . 337 pages, edges rough cut. Contains humourous background to the life of the church in Scotland, illustrated with 15 colour pictures by G Paul Chalmers, David Allan, H C Preston MacGoun, for instance “Quitting the Manse”, “The Minister’s Wife”, “Catechising in the Church of Scotland”, “Dr Guthrie Preaching in the Glen”, pasted onto grey paper. GBP 3.75
[007309] Yun, Brother; Hattaway, Paul. The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun. London: Monarch Books, 2005. Paperback. Good Plus ISBN: 185424597X. . 351 pages, gift inscription to front endpaper, otherwise in excellent condition. GBP 2.25
[007311] Scroggie, William Graham. A Note to a Friend: Paul to Philemon. London: Hulbert Publishing Co Ltd, 1927. Cloth. Average . 171 pages, some wear to extremities, shaken, edges grubby/foxed. This copy undated, but it appears this book was first published in 1927. GBP 6.75
[007314] Morrison, George Herbert. Flood-Tide: Sunday Evenings in a City Pulpit. London: Hodder, 1932. Cloth. Average . 292 pages, foxed. GBP 4.75
[007316] Bonar, Andrew A; Bonar, Marjory (ed). Heavenly Springs: Portions for the Sabbaths of a Year, Selected from the Diary, Letters, and Sermons of the Rev Andrew A Bonar, DD …. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905. Second Edition. Cloth. Average Plus ISBN: . . 211 pages, edges foxed. Green cloth with gilt-decorated spine and front cover. 6¼ x 4 inches. GBP 4.75
[007317] Govan, Horace Edward. Discoveries of God: A Series of Studies in the Sacred Name. Edinburgh: Bright Words Office (Faith Mission), 1920. Paperback. Average Minus . 108 pages, on the Hebrew names of God. Uncommon book not found on COPAC, and with no UK copies on Worldcat. A little pen marking to front cover and contents page, covers grubby. Undated but early 20th century. GBP 6.75
[451884] McDowell, W. J.. The Incomparable Book. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1988. Pamphlet. Very Good ISBN: 0851515436. . 13 pages. Multiple copies available. GBP 0.55
[007320] Ball, John. A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace: Facsimile Reprint from the 1645 Edition. Dingwall: Peter & Rachel Reynolds, 2006. Paperback. NEW ISBN: 1846852781. . 374 pages. GBP 15.00
[451885] MacLeod, John. Some Favourite Books. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. NEW ISBN: 085151538X. . 125 pages, by the author of “Scottish Theology”, on William Guthrie, Thomas Halyburton, James Durham, John Love, The Haldanes, Thomas Scott, John MacDonald of Calcutta, and others. Multiple copies available. GBP 1.50
[007321] Smellie, Alexander. Sunset Glory: Sermons Preached in Carluke Original Secession Church. London: Andrew Melrose, 1924. Cloth. Average Plus . 191 pages, edges foxed. GBP 7.50
[007322] Livingstone, William Pringle. Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary. London: Hodder & Stoughton/United Free Church, 1920. Fifteenth Edition. Cloth. Average . 347 pages, foxed, all illustrations (photos) present, front endpaper missing. Mary Slessor, a Dundee factory girl with an alcoholic father, spent her life pioneering at Okoyong on Cross River, Nigeria. Undated but dates of other editions indicate that this was published circa 1920. GBP 2.75
[007323] Talmage, T De Witt. Sermons By the Rev T De Witt Talmage … Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle: Volume 5. London: John Lobb (Christian Age offices), 1892. Cloth. Average . 407 pages, 50 sermons, beginning with “From Ocean to Ocean” (Psalm 72:8) and ending with “Mending Nets” (Matthew 4:21). GBP 5.75
[007324] Lightfoot, Joseph Barber. Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians: A Revised Text with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. London: MacMillan, 1903. Cloth. Average . 350 pages, edges foxed. A commentary with reference to the Greek text and early Christian writers. GBP 4.75
[007325] Meyer, Frederick Brotherton. The Life and Light of Men: Expositions of John 1-12. London: Morgan and Scott, 1900. Cloth. Average Minus . 251 pages. Stapled construction is rusted and a few pages have come loose from the binding and got a bit tatty; some wear/staining to covers. GBP 3.75
[007326] Woodside, David. The Soul of a Scottish Church: or The Contribution of the United Presbyterian Church to Scottish Life and Religion. Edinburgh: United Free Church of Scotland, 1917. Cloth. Average+ . 324 pages, frontispiece engraving of Cairney Bridge, coloured chart of Scottish denominations loose. This copy undated, but early 20th century. GBP 12.50
[007327] Meyer, Frederick Brotherton. John the Baptist. London: Morgan and Scott, 1911. Cloth. Poor . 192 pages. Childs’s scribbling/drawing to first and last pages and inside covers and occasonally elsewhere, covers worn/stained. GBP 1.00
[007328] Meyer, Frederick Brotherton. Christ in Isaiah (FAULTY COPY). London: Morgan and Scott, 1917. Cloth. Average Minus . FAULTY COPY. 211 pages, paper browned, first ten pages of text missing, some pages loose and tatty, some pen underlining, this copy undated but probably early 20th century. GBP 0.75