rev martin post (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 354 Pages; 31 Chapters; Pages Show Yellowing And Smudging On Margins; Page Edges Darkened; String Binding; Slight Warping Of Pages; Dark Brown End Pages; No Markings; Gray Hard Covers With Gild Lettering On Front Cover And Spine. Moderate Shelf Wear; Introductory Note In Front. A Narrative Drawn From Life That Relates To The Character, Life-Work And Spirit Of The Riverton Minister. The Minister That Is Abundant In Good; A Consecrated And Beautiful Life! Rare Vintage Copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1897 1st Edition. Very Good Hardback Book with No Dust Jacket. A square, tight and clean copy except for date on front free end paper. 354pp. Sm8vo. (J).

The three items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper; the essay and first letter having punch-holes in the margin. The essay is 3pp., foolscap 8vo. The title, corrections and emendations are all in van der Post's hand. 'To someone like myself who believes that coincidence is the manifestation of a great law of which we are not yet properly aware, this timing of the birth of Christ is not accidental. Perhaps Christ could not have been born on any other day because the power that brings forth Spring out of Winter, and the power that raises man again out of his dead self are one.' In the first letter (1p., 4to) van der Post declares that, despite 'various family complications and tragedies', neither he nor his wife 'want to lose touch with you and St. Martin's'; and that as 'our future is going to be more even now', he would like to try his hand at 'an article for your Magazine'. In the second letter (1p., 12mo) he accepts a lunch invitation, adding 'Please use the short piece I wrote you in 1959 in any way you like.'.