Lawrence Geo E (4 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK.DONAHUE, AL back cover biography, inner front cover GREATEST COLLECTION OF SONG HITS.advert. ; Sheet Music; 5+pg thin pages; CHARMING COVER PHOTO OF VERY HAPPY GINNY SIMS.black backgrond. Illustrated by SIMS, GINNY COVER PHOTO (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. First (and presumably only) printing. 8vo. hardcover in navy blue cloth stamped in gilt. Engraved frontis portrait of R.V. Lawrence with tissue guard and two additional engravings in the text. 384 pp. Very good, portrait and title page well foxed, stains pp. 23-26. Ruliffe Vancleve Lawrence was a significant figure in the Methodist Episcopal Church, much involved with temperance and with camp meetings in the Philadelphia area as well as central and southern New Jersey. One famed camp meeting was held on the beach at Ocean Grove, New Jersey (illustration at p. 85). The illustration "The Trenton Bank Robbery" though called for at page 129, was not actually included (though a multi-page description of the event is included); there is an illustration of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia at page 186 that is not noted in the contents. …

Softback linen. Condition: Very Good. 8vo softback - thick linen style cover, green on cream, decorated with palm trees and clouds; Nice clean copy; explores the Life of Dr. Coke, (born Wales 1747) and his missionary work in the Caribbean; each chapter suggests exercises for the children to do. There is a chapter on the continuation of the spread of Methodism after Dr. Coke's Death. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator).…