John H Whittaker (25 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Blue cloth, edge rubbed, and lightly faded at top front. X-library, with internal and external marks. Clean text, solid copy that has seen little use.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 173 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

Condition: Good. New edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a clean, unmarked, undamaged copy.

paperback. Condition: As New. Never read, no marks or highlighting in the book. Our copy is paperback showing light shelf-wear. Heavy book, extra shipping costs to locations outside USA.

, Whittaker, John H., 1945-. Matters of faith and matters of principle. Religious truth claims and their logic. San Antonio : Trinity University Press, 1981, x, 173pp., good dust-jacket with several chips and tears around edges, good blue cloth, but some minor light pencil marks neatly erased on a few pages. Trinity University monograph series in religion, volume 6. - CONTENTS: On certainty, faith, and doubt -- Matters of faith and matters of principle -- Predestination as a typically religious belief -- Are religious beliefs truth claims? -- The problem of justification -- The exclusiveness of religious conviction. 9780911536874 ISBN 0911536876.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings With owner's name inside cover. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1600grams, ISBN:9780340809761.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1600grams, ISBN:9780340809761.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 173 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket [0911536876].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 173 pages, a near-fine hardback in a very good plus dust-jacket [0911536876].

Hardcover with dust jacket. Pencil markings throughout. Dust jacket is edge worn, rubbed and scuffed. Faded along edges and to spine. Small pieces missing along edges. 169 pages. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 169 pp.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This book looks at the articles of faith of religion and shows how they are matters of principle. It covers topics such as predestination as a religious belief, are religious beliefs truth claims, justification, and religious conviction. Included are chapter notes and a bibliography. This copy is solid with underscoring on some pages.…

VG+, clean HB; b-p; no DJ. x + 173 pp.

Condition: AS NEW. Etat de NEUF / AS NEW condition 0820412112 9780820412115 PC461 1.

Condition: Sehr Gut. Zustandsbeschreibung: Mängelexemplar. Steering between a psychological treatment of religious persuasion on the one hand and the arguments of natural theology on the other, this book outlines a new direction in the philosophy of religion. By showing that a religion's nobility, its promise of purpose, and its ability to settle us into selfhood enliven its teachings, this essay expands the notion of reasonable believing, forcing it to include some forgotten aspects of good judgment. 116 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series VII: Theology and Religion; Vol. 71/Peter Lang Verlag 1990). Statt EUR 34,95. Gewicht: 255 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 2002. xix, 303pp. Both the book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "Remarkable in the range that it covers, The Possibilities of Sense testifies to an equally remarkable philosopher. In essays on ethics and the philosophy of religion, on literature and education, the contributors display not only the breadth of D.Z. Phillips's work but also its power. This power comes largely from Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose significance as a moral and religious philosopher rivals his reputation as a philosopher of language.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hard cover dec. brown cloth bds, VG, some staining to rear, contents clean and tight, no inscripts, fold out map to rear, ink stain to leading pge edge block, pp240.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A splendid original antique engraved portrait. . NOT MOUNTED BECAUSE TO LARGE TO DISPATCH MOUNTED - SO WOULD SEND ROLLED IN A LARGE THICK STRONG TUBE, SIZE 21 X 15 INCHES, 52 X 37 CMS, , scarce and unusual. , MRS WHITTAKER ELLIS , DAUGHTER OF JOHN STAPLES OF BELMONT, SALISBURY AND WIFE OF THE CURRENT LORD MAYYOR OF LONDON IN 1882 . AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT ENGRAVED IN 1882 .…

1st Ed. [xx] + 303pp. + [v] blank. Good in very lightly soiled d/w. with closed tear repaired to verso. US$52.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Winter, 1954-1955. 67pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers lightly age-toned and stained internally, holes in wrapper near staples, small pen mark on rear wrapper, still very good. Many interesting literary contributions including Allen Ginsberg's "Last Stanzas in Denver". "Words to a Young Man" by John McAlpin Berryman. "Bureaucrats: Diggers" by Tom Merton. "Serenade, and Old Songs" by John Erskine. "Identity" by Mark Van Doren. Other contributors are: Brander Matthews, Joyce Kilmer, Alfred A. Knopf, Guy Sommerville, Paul W. Gallico, Henry Morton Robinson, Irwin Edman, Mortimer J. Adler, Whittaker Chambers, Millen Brand, H. Lloyd Frankenberg, Ben Maddow, Corey H. Ford, William Y. Tindall, Clifton Fadiman, Jacques Martin Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Eleazar Lipsky, Milton Rugoff, Herman Wouk, James A. Wechsler, Ralph de Toledano, Daniel G. Hoffman, Herb Gold, Robert Laguardia, John Hollander, Richard Howard, and Stephen Orgel.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; Skelton, J.R.; Crombie, Charles; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by John H. Whittaker. Slim 24mo. 8, [10 illustrations] accordion-folded pages that open in the middle to show a map of Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey, measuring 72" wide. Decorative blue cloth with modest wear and soil as well as a small area of rippling on the lower board, sewn textblock is just a bit loose but sound, one tiny marginal tear, very good overall. *OCLC* locates four copies, three in New Jersey.…