Bertha Elliott (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Charleston, IL: Prairie Press Books 1969. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, 28+ pages. Near fine with very light wear wb21E.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the booklet covers have some lightish rubbing and wear. There is some rubbing to both front and rear spine joints as well. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: Two or Three Together by Irving Harris, After Half a Decade by John Dutton, A Dollar Does it by Ralston C. Young, No Lonely Pilgrimage b y Howard Haines, The Family at Prayer by Helen Smith Shoemaker , West 29th Street by Margaret Peale, The Galilean Fellowship by G. Gordon Mahy, jr. , A Hard Core at the Center by Robert Raines, When Life Gets Complicated by Overton Stephens, In Step with God by Bernard B. Gair, Lending a Hand by Paul and Elinor Offill, The Test of Time by Harold Wiley Freer, Is There a Christian Program by S. M. Shoemaker, The Problem of Praying Aloud by Rosalind Rinker, The God Who Speaks by Claxton Monro, Points for Prayer Power by Bruce Larson, and, Taught or Caught? By Richard Engquist.; B&W Illustrations; 94p. pages; Pictured 8/24/26.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 312 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Pebbled black cloth; light rubbing to boards; residue from removed sticker at lower spine with some shallow overlap onto adjoining lower boards; slight dulling/flaking to front board and spine's stamping but all still easily legible. Some foxing to text block edges; past owner's name/address label affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Laid-in at front endpapers is the author's promotional brochure/order form announcing the first printing of Volume III and reprintings of preceding Volumes I and II. With Preface, a few b/w plates, and Index. Features fourteen essays regarding various facets of regional history of which the more interesting titles are: "Some Economic and Social Aspects of the History of Cullman, Alabama" by John Clinton Bright; "An Early Fayette County Home" by Marguerite T. Callahan; "Recollections of Olden Days" by Bertha Massey King; Early History of Winston County, Alabama Schools" by Sallie P. West; "The Pursuit and Capture of Streight's Raiders" by John A. Wyeth; "Some Recollections of My Family" by Andrew Lee Massey; "From Oxcarts to Diesels: A History of Hanceville, Alabama" by Emmie Alldredge Smith; "The Civil War as Seen by Captain Isaac Jasper Rogers" by Charles E. Wilson; and "History of Marion County" by a Committee of School Teachers. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL-Shelf#1}.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. American School of Home Economics, 1912, First Edition, 8vo., 211 pages. Book bound in a green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket, illustrations. Book very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.