New Milford, NJ: Maranatha Press, 1972. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. A promotional piece announcing Jesus Joy!, a Jesus movement musical event featuring Maranatha, Rock Garden, Danny Taylor, Andrae Croch and the Disciples, and Lillian Parker. In Jeanne DeFazio's Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theater..... More
n.p., n.d. Two-sided 8½” x 11” flyer photocopied on pink stock. Details on how technology in concert with the financial and bureaucratic systems are preparing the way for the anti-Christ’s return and the imprinting of the mark of the beast on an unsuspecting public. Cites direct deposit, EFT, phone cards..... More
![How Red Is the Federal [National] Council of Churches? American Council of Christian Laymen](/pictures/thumb/07152.jpg?v=1574821341)
Madison, Wisconsin: American Council of Christian Laymen, ©1959. One sheet printed in red and black, folded to make six panels. List of members of the Federal [National] Council of Churches "who have aided and abetted God-hating, un-American organizations" and "some of the red groups they have aided." Distribution sticker of..... More
Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas, Tex.; Richmond, VA.: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1912. First edition. Octavo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt; 359 pp.; photographic frontis of the author with tissue guard; portrait photographs throughout. A Very Good copy with some wear to spine ends and along the top..... More
New York: Daniel Appleton, 1832. First edition. Quarto (24 cm); x, 655 pp. Full contemporary calf; spine has four raised bands, leather title label in second compartment has been abraded; generally rubbing with one small nick to crown; owners' names to endpaper verso and subsequent flyleaf's recto; pages are foxed..... More
Sacramento: Jos. M. Anderson, Printer, 1906. First edition. 12mo; stapled, yellow wrappers printed in black and red, 17 pp. An early and scarce publication from the congregationalist pastor, scholar and theologian, Rev. Henry Kendall Booth (1876-1942), who recounts the Biblical story of the apostle Paul and the slave Onesimus. Booth..... More
Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1901. First edition. Octavo (24 cm). Blue buckram with gilt spine; 233 pp.; photographic frontispiece of Rev. Brown; photographs, illustrations, map. The book is organized in two sections: the first containing autobiographical information on Rev. Brown and historical matter on the Presbytery and the second..... More
Metairie, LA: Sons of Liberty, [ca. 1970s]. Reprint. 12mo; blue, stapled wrappers printed in black, 24 pp. A scarce title by the British painter and assyriologist, Ethel Susan Graham Bristowe (1862-1952), who reprints some of the salient passages from a little known work, "The Gospel According to the Jews and..... More
Los Angeles: American Prophetic League, [n.d., ca. 1950s]. Small stapled wrappers (3½” x 6"), 30 pp. An anti-Catholic pamphlet from the evangelical pastor, Keith L. Brooks, who employs a question-and-answer format to investigate the anti-Christian doctrines of Catholicism. Staples oxidized, else a Near Fine copy. More
Morrison, Ill.: Confessional Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 1953-58. First edition. A broken run of six issues of the Confessional Lutheran Publicity Bureau's organ. The CLPB was organized in 1940 by a group of conservative Lutherans in response to worrying conciliations between the Missouri Synod and the American Lutheran Church. Issues include..... More
[New York: Published by the author?], 1961. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer portending the bombing of New York City by an H-bomb with the only defense being the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, the Holy Rosary, various Bible verses, tithing, etc. The flyer is signed ‘Carl C. Burns B...... More
![From Out the Flame: A Story of the Re-Creation [Autograph Edition]. William Richard BURRELL](/pictures/thumb/00404.jpg?v=1543194954)
New York: New York: Burr Printing House, 1905. First edition. Octavo (19 cm); 476, [3] pp.; photographic frontispiece of the author. Burgundy cloth with gilt to spine. Presentation inscription by the author on the front endpaper, along with another owner's signature; signed by the author under the frontis. Cloth is..... More
n.p.: Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, 1986. First printing. Stapled card wrappers (5 ¼” x 8 ¼”), 40 pp, photographs. Penciled name and date to title page, else Fine. Four copies in OCLC; none in commerce (Oct. 2019). The author describes the World Economic System, the One-world Political System, and One-world..... More
Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., Publishers, 1895. First edition. Square twelvemo. (18 x 15 cm); 95 pp.; port. frontis. Gilt-stamped cloth; top edge gilt; deckle fore and bottom edge. Some very light foxing to the prelims, else fine throughout. Poetry from the theologian and author of The Modern Devil. Uncommon..... More
New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1907. First American edition. Octavo; ribbed green cloth with gilt titling to spine; red and black printed title page; xii, 364 pp.; photographic frontispiece, plates. A biography of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary, Robert Clark, who along with his colleague, Thomas..... More
![The Ark of Noah [cover title]. Dr. Ralph CRAWFORD, Pastor David F. WEBBER](/pictures/thumb/05660.jpg?v=1533950163)
Oklahoma City: The Southwest Radio Church of the Air, [ca. 1969]. First edition. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 16 pp. Includes two articles, both titled “The Search for Noah’s Ark,” which discuss the evidence of wood found on Mt. Ararat as proof of Noah’s Ark and thus the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy..... More
n.p. n.p., [1892]. First edition. Thin twelvemo. Publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth; red-stained page edges; 51 pp.; 1 leaf, two plates. Cummings surveys the various churches and sabbath schools associated with their mother church, the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. A Very Good copy with some slight rubbing and dust-soiling to..... More
Windsor, Ont., Canada: Dawn of Truth, 1968. Stapled, glossy wrappers (5 ¼” x 8 ¼”), 24 pp. A Fine copy. Three copies in WorldCat at MSU, Fuller Theological and UC Davis. An update on Biblical prophecy first dictated by Dahl in 1959 regarding the Soviet Communist takeover of the world. Dahl..... More
[Rahway, N. J.]: [1941]. First edition. Tall octavo (23.5 cm); 80 pp.; black and white photographs; dust jacket. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt to front board; all pages clean, although some pages very loosely stuck together due to ink and papers (easily pulled apart). An uncommon piece of New..... More
Haverhill, Mass.: Destiny Publishers, 1946. 8vo; grey stapled wrappers printed in red, 30, [2] pp. Offprint from Howard Rand’s “Destiny” magazine, in which the author explains how the writings of the Bible came into existence, how they were selected for inclusion, and how they’ve been passed down through the centuries..... More
![Jesus Speaks [INSCRIBED]. Robert Lee DOUGHERTY](/pictures/thumb/05578.jpg?v=1532192043)
Redlands, California: Published by the author, 1938. First edition. 12mo; stapled, blue card wrappers with blue linen tape spine, 41 pp. Inscribed by the author below his name on the title page. An obscure, self-published book by a California pastor who provides an account of Jesus’ life and teachings through..... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade, ©1968. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5” x 7 ½”), 39, [1] pp. Some rubbing to wrappers with a small surface tear near fore-edge, VG. An anti-sex education pamphlet focused on the SIECUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the United States) agenda, which Drake contends is anti-religious..... More
Boston: Press of Wm. A. Carrie & Co., 1901. First edition. Octavo (23 cm); 57 pp.; [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, portraits. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Some light chipping to corners and edges; a thin ribbon of dampstaining across half the text block, although not affecting..... More
New Baltimore, Michigan: Anchor Bay Evangelistic Ass’n, Inc., [ca. 1961]. A compilation of material exposing the “murderous and anti-Christ character of Communism.” Section I provides a short history tracing the origins of Communism from the Society of Peace to Weishaupt and the Illuminati to Marx and Proudhon to the Bolsheviks..... More
Minneapolis: Religion Analysis Service, Inc., 1957-75. First edition. A broken run of fifteen issues of the Religion Analysis Service's "interdenominational heresy-exposing quarterly." The RAS seeks to expose "false teachings," including Christian Science, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Identity, occult practices such as automatic writing, but also liberalism, modernism, etc. All issue..... More