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paperback. Condición: Fair. Barbara C. Thomason Ilustrador.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked with page-turn soiling marks. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

paperback. Condición: Good. Barbara C. Thomason Ilustrador. General used book wear but has no markings. Ships promptly.

hardcover. Condición: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; some fraying at the head and tail of the spine; corners are bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; front and rear hinges are cracked; overall still a nice used VOLUME II! 335 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Green cloth with an embossed illustration and lettering on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering and illustration on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully done. "The preparation of two volumes of critical and biographical sketches, including the masters of music from the earliest pre-classical epoch to the contemporary ultra-moderns, is in itself not a small task. To do it in such a way as to hold the interest of the casual reader and command the respect of the musical enthusiast is doubly difficult. Yet it is hoped that this purpose has here been achieved. A particularly unique feature is the inclusion of many monographs on celebrated composers that are the literary product of other equally celebrated composers, critics and specialists. As a composer, Saint-Saens is known the world over; and yet many may be surprised to realize that as a critic and musical litterateur he is one of the foremost in France." ---- from the Publishers' Foreword. (VOLUME II).

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. clean used copy with some wear to covers, sunning to pages ,no markings/stains or stickers. fast shipping with tracking number.

Hardcover. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fraying at the head and tail of the spine; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used VOLUME VII! 411 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Green cloth with an embossed illustration and lettering on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering and illustration on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully done. "The preparation of two volumes of critical and biographical sketches, including the masters of music from the earliest pre-classical epoch to the contemporary ultra-moderns, is in itself not a small task. To do it in such a way as to hold the interest of the casual reader and command the respect of the musical enthusiast is doubly difficult. Yet it is hoped that this purpose has here been achieved. A particularly unique feature is the inclusion of many monographs on celebrated composers that are the literary product of other equally celebrated composers, critics and specialists. As a composer, Saint-Saens is known the world over; and yet many may be surprised to realize that as a critic and musical litterateur he is one of the foremost in France." ---- from the Publishers' Foreword. (VOLUME VII).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fraying at the head and tail of the spine; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used VOLUME III! 435 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Green cloth with an embossed illustration and lettering on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering and illustration on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully done. "The preparation of two volumes of critical and biographical sketches, including the masters of music from the earliest pre-classical epoch to the contemporary ultra-moderns, is in itself not a small task. To do it in such a way as to hold the interest of the casual reader and command the respect of the musical enthusiast is doubly difficult. Yet it is hoped that this purpose has here been achieved. A particularly unique feature is the inclusion of many monographs on celebrated composers that are the literary product of other equally celebrated composers, critics and specialists. As a composer, Saint-Saens is known the world over; and yet many may be surprised to realize that as a critic and musical litterateur he is one of the foremost in France." ---- from the Publishers' Foreword. (VOLUME III).

hardcover. Condición: Fair. Vintage book. Copyright 1921. Cover shows much wear around the edges. The pages are tanned with age. There is foxing on the outer edges of the pages. The binding is starting to come loose in the front. See photos. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0517201550, Hardback, 2nd printing of this edition, Near Fine in a Near Fine, mylar protected DJ; a nice, tight copy with no names or internal markings, large book with more than 600 black-and-white photographs, 4to., ~ 1300 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is intact, and in good condition. Book itself is pristine and like new. Such a GREAT SET of 10 books. Perhaps you need this volume to complete your set. Right after the photographic image has been invented. So soon and these photographs are INCREDIBLE. Let's look at these historic photos and remind ourselves of the horrors of war and never go there again. (BR) Box 96.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; some fraying at the head and tail of the spine; corners are bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; front and rear hinges are cracked; overall still a nice used VOLUME V! 400 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Green cloth with an embossed illustration and lettering on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering and illustration on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully done. "The preparation of two volumes of critical and biographical sketches, including the masters of music from the earliest pre-classical epoch to the contemporary ultra-moderns, is in itself not a small task. To do it in such a way as to hold the interest of the casual reader and command the respect of the musical enthusiast is doubly difficult. Yet it is hoped that this purpose has here been achieved. A particularly unique feature is the inclusion of many monographs on celebrated composers that are the literary product of other equally celebrated composers, critics and specialists. As a composer, Saint-Saens is known the world over; and yet many may be surprised to realize that as a critic and musical litterateur he is one of the foremost in France." ---- from the Publishers' Foreword. (VOLUME V).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fraying at the head and tail of the spine; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used VOLUME VI! 348 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Green cloth with an embossed illustration and lettering on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering and illustration on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully done. "The preparation of two volumes of critical and biographical sketches, including the masters of music from the earliest pre-classical epoch to the contemporary ultra-moderns, is in itself not a small task. To do it in such a way as to hold the interest of the casual reader and command the respect of the musical enthusiast is doubly difficult. Yet it is hoped that this purpose has here been achieved. A particularly unique feature is the inclusion of many monographs on celebrated composers that are the literary product of other equally celebrated composers, critics and specialists. As a composer, Saint-Saens is known the world over; and yet many may be surprised to realize that as a critic and musical litterateur he is one of the foremost in France." ---- from the Publishers' Foreword. (VOLUME VI).

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 24, 1957 (Vol. 39 No. 30) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8-inches by 8-1/8-inches and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: short story The Stranger by Merle G. Franke (It was incredible but true. The crucified Lord walked with two of his perplexed disciples on the road to Emmaus); article Woman Doctor in Guatemala by Effie Jane Shivell (on Dr. Elena Trejo); article Words Get Tired by Roland E. Wolseley (There are plenty of words in the dictionary. Why not find new ones, and give the old ones a rest?); article [Philip] Melanchthon 'Apologized' For the Augsburg Confession by W.D. Allbeck. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; light cover wear in places; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 9, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 10) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Republic for Men Only by John Reumann (A visit to Athos, the Greek Holy Mountain, takes you back one thousand years in time); Let's Keep Our Giving Personal (Inner Mission Crisis: Part II) by Conrad Raker; The Least of These Can Learn by Joseph K. Peaslee (Church and State in an Ohio town are working together to teach mentally retarded children); The Amish and Their "Budget" by Glenn D. Everett (Lutheran [George R. Smith] Publishes Newspaper For Continent-Wide Community). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 18, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 7) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Coal Country Crisis: The Hummels Need Help by Ralph W. Bagger (on Jim Hummel and family); Alaska: Pioneers Move North by Henry Endress; Water Is the Mask of God by Martin J. Heinecken; New Day for Rural Churches by Lester Heins. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 25, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 8) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Thanksgiving 1959: Don't Take the Dinner for Granted by Francis Mason; Thanksgiving 1959: Thank God for God by Jerald C. Brauer; The Basic Truth Is Christ by Paul Valentiner (United Lutheran Church in New York organizes its own elementary school); Israel: Young Nation at Odds with Its Past by John Reumann. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; light cover wear in places; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 10, 1957 (Vol. 39 No. 28) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8-inches by 8-1/8-inches and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: article ULC Takes a Chance by Albert P. Stauderman (In Nevada's famous gambling city, Las Vegas, United Lutherans are building a congregation); article Young People Work for the Church by Alfred J. Krahmer; 'The Time is Now,' Says German Bishop [Dr. Otto Dibelius] by Johannes Lehmann (It's dangerous to be a Christian in East Germany, Bishop Dibelius told his congregation. This sort of danger was predicted by Jesus); news article New York City Churches Move Towards Integration by Oliver W. Powers. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; light cover wear in places; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 17, 1957 (Vol. 39 No. 29) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8-inches by 8-1/8-inches and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: article We Celebrated the Passover by Eleanor Dean (A woman brought up in the Jewish faith, and now a Lutheran, tells how [the] ancient story of deliverance from Egypt is background for the Lord's Supper of the Christians); article Christians Can Learn from Jews by Margaret McCauley Clayton (Jewish children study several hours a week for eight years to qualify for ceremony resembling Christian confirmation); article Love Comes to Japan's Farmers by Maud Powlas (Christian laymen in country districts lift drudgery, bring light); commentary God's Mercy Is the Answer by Reinhold Niebuhr (to our persistent inability to do the good things we want to do); article Isn't There Anything We Can Believe? by Margarethe E. Shank (What good is a college diploma if it represents merely fine training in developing skill in being critical?). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 2, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 9) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Our Church Homes Are Threatened by Walter R. Harrison; There's Holiness in All Creation by Martin J. Heinecken; Japan: Travel a Lonely Road by Henry Endress; Christians Have a Job in Politics by Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier (excerpts from a radio address). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 8, 1957 (Vol. 39 No. 32) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8-inches by 8-1/8-inches and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: news article The Norman Case by Norman Berner (on E. Herbert Norman, ambassador to Egypt, who took his own life early in April); article Extra! Extra! First Lutheran Pastor is Coming to America by Harry J. Kreider (Part One of Three: This story is three hundred years old, but still good. In the first of three articles in memory of Johannes Gutwasser, who arrived in New York City July 6, 1657, Dr. Kreider describes problems of the oldest Lutheran congregation in America); commentary Law, Without Grace by Reinhold Niebuhr (Law, without grace, won't clear up our problems. It may be that Supreme Court decision on segregation in schools hinders adjustment); article A Bargain in Denver by Morton L. Margolin (on Pastors Alton Motter and Benner Weaver); A Woman in Three Worlds [Part Two]: American Church Said 'No' by Anne Jordheim (But Lutheran student pastor befriended the refugee from Nazi Germany). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 4, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 5) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: What is Holy? by Martin J. Heinecken; Lutherans are Building in Hawaii by Henry Endress; Note for Church Builders: Make Room for the Salad by Arthur R. Stees. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 13, 1957 (Vol. 40 No. 7) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: City Churches Don't Have to Die by Sigurd B. Hagen (There's nothing to do but sell out and move to the suburbs, people say in many city churches each year. But if a church is alert in meeting the needs in its changing neighborhood, it grows stronger year by year); All the Way for Christ by LeRoy Collins (Nobody expects much when the Governor of a state gets up to give a brief Address of Welcome at a church convention - but Governor Collins surprised Presbyterian men in Miami last month. He expected them to take seriously their convention theme All the Way for Christ); The Professor Asks Questions by Paul L. Holmer (Are churches always honest? How important is a big building program? Do we have the right reasons for church membership?). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 4, 1957 (Vol. 40 No. 10) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: A Question Had to be Answered by Robert E. Huldschiner (It's a new question, in some respects: Shall we let Negroes join our church? This time it was asked in a border town where it was explosive); Maybe This Is You! by George B. McCreary (We're likely to become unlike our normal selves when behind the wheel of a car); Salvation Isn't Only for Individuals by Reinhold Niebuhr (Conversion of individuals is no guarantee that people can become unselfish); Girl In Trouble by Katherine Gorman (She was in rebellion against her parents or teachers or somebody, and defied the moral code which was intended to guard her from danger. Now she needs real love and understanding. As a result of Charles Crittenton's life work, she is able to find a shelter - and hope); Confessions of A Preacher's Daughter by Carol Jean Heller (A minister's children grow up in a peculiar situation. People watch them closely and expect them to be different from other children. They are). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; a few narrow scuffs to front cover, else Fine.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 28, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 4) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: We'll Have to Live With Conflict by Theodore G. Tappert (A look at Protestant-Roman Catholic Relations on Reformation Day 1959); Reformation Research: The Date Was Not October 31 by W.J. Kooiman; [David] Chytraeus, Forgotten Man of the Reformation by John W. Montgomery; Stamps Tell the Reformation Story by Fritz Seefeldt. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 16, 1959 (Vol. 42 No. 11) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Let Everyone Sing His Own Song (Cosmopolitan Advent services in Washington church blend Christian traditions from many foreign lands); Wanted: A Reflection of Christ by Robert E. Huldschiner (For three days, 100 Lutherans from two continents discussed the future of the Christian churches in India); Thiel College Choir: On-stage and off, it's teamwork by Betty Lawrence; We Need New Types of Schools by Margaret Manley (Millard Gladfelter, a United Lutheran, is president of Philadelphia's Temple University. In an interview, he says We Need New Types of Schools). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 15, 1957 (Vol. 39 No. 33) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8-inches by 8-1/8-inches and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: First to the Fire by Lucille E. Hein (Explosion on Brooklyn waterfront brought Lutheran hospital into effective action); We Lived with Race Prejudice by Jean Hogan Dudley (Really knowing people of other races makes all the difference in the world in getting along together); A Woman in Three Worlds [Part 3 of 3]: Sermons Get Shorter in Norway by Anne Jordheim (American influence is effecting changes in Norway's ancient state church. There aren't many worshipers - and no choirs - in downtown churches, but young people crowd into ski chapels in the city suburbs); The Dutch Demanded a Pastor by Harry J. Kreider (Second of Three Articles on Gutwasser Tercentenary: New York Lutherans schemed to get a minister from Holland but ran into heavy opposition. Finally - 300 years ago - a German was secured and was hurriedly ordained in Amsterdam); Synod Convention by Wynne C. Boliek (South Carolina is first to meet in '57 - Opposition to sector project is overcome - Synod plans for headquarters building). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August 20, 1958 (Vol. 40 No. 47) issue of "The Lutheran: News Magazine of the United Lutheran Church in America" edited by G. Elson Ruff and published by the United Lutheran Publication House out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A stapled digest magazine with glossy covers and pages measuring 5-5/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing articles, Church News, columns and reviews, highlights include: Sister Sue Can't See by Robert Huldschiner (on Sue Roth: But she thinks perhaps God let her lose her sight so she could become more helpful in her work among blind people); Pennies in the Plate by Charles T. Sardeson (Things have changed in church since the days when our great-grandfathers paid $5 as yearly rent for a rear pew); Popularity May Be Too Expensive by Aubrey B. Haines (But there's no point in being disagreeable just to prove that you're always right); short story Pick-up in the Park by Ollie Watterson (It was wholly accidental, but it did solve a stubborn problem for the Rutherfords). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; pages lightly age-toned.