Title Ushers (3 results)
More imagesPublished by Christian Usher's Association of America, Inc, Wooster, Ohio, 1968
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.Cleveland Book Company, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Staplebound. Condition: Very good. Quarto, [24]pp., illustrated. A very good copy in the publisher's stapled printed wraps. Old flattened vertical crease throughout, some dust-soiling to wraps, and a few faint marginal creases. A nicely illustrated program for a convention of African-American church ushers. Though not identified… as a regional conference, most of the groups of attendees pictured or referenced in the booklet are from Youngstown, Cleveland, Mansfield, and Wooster; that is to say, the Northeast Ohio region. Filled with local advertisements from Wooster, many of these for Black-owned businesses. A number of individual portraits of organization leadership, as well as group photographs of various church ushers are within. While the position of "usher" is common to most Christian denominations (and has analogues in many other faiths), it has a particularly important role in many Black churches as a position of honor, responsibility, and service.
More imagesPublished by National United Church Ushers Association of America, Inc, Milwaukee, WI, 1964
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.Cleveland Book Company, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerStaplebound. Condition: Good. Quarto, [60]pp., illustrated. In good condition in the publisher's printed stapled wraps. Stain and bump to the base of the spine throughout, though not affecting the contents. Some foxing to wraps, and the staples rusted and fragile; still sound and internally clean. A richly illustrated souvenir p…rogram for this national meeting of African-American church ushers, which met in the very busy summer of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had just been passed by Congress a mere two weeks before this convention took place, and the Freedom Summer was well under way in Mississippi, where Civil Rights activists were trying against massive white resistance and violence to register African-American voters. The program contents, it should be said, are mostly devoid of talk of national news and Civil Rights. The detailed program schedule largely centers, of course, on business directly related to church administration. There are many dozens of photographic portraits of local and national figures related to the organization throughout, including a number of group shots. Local advertisements, mostly from African-American-owned Milwaukee businesses, abound. Though, again, there is not much here in terms of explicit Civil Rights content, it is a well understood fact that the Black church was the primary organizational environment for Civil Rights activism, an important legacy institution that worked hand in hand with CORE, SNCC, and other more secular activist groups. OCLC lists just two related items; the same program for the 1952 annual meeting (held in Chicago), retained by Emory, and the published minutes from the inaugural meeting, held in 1919 in Philadelphia, retained by NYPL.
More imagesPublished by E. and S. Harding, London, 1796
- First Edition
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Full Calf. Condition: Very Good Plus. With both the English and French title pages, the latter, with a hand-colored illustration of the Conseil de Cinq Cents. 8vo. 21 by 12.5 cm. Title with hand-colored illustration of the Conseil de Cinq-Cent, followed by fifteen hand-colored costume plates of French officialdom. The book is pa…ginated oddly, with the plates unnumbered, but accompanied by 12 numbered explanatory exegeses, two serving two or three plates. In total, there are 31 leaves with content, including the title pages, an "advertisement" and an "Index" leaf, and most of the leaves have blanks on their flip sides, but a few text leaves use both sides. This copy is handsomely bound in full brown calf, with simpled ruled gilt decoration, plus a band of blindstamped decoration around the perimeters. Spine has attractive gilt decorative diapers in three "compartments", although there are no raised bands, and the tile rendered in gilt. The leather has a little light scuffing, but few will not find the binding appealing as it is. The leaves within have very occasional light fox marks and other occasional stray stains, but in our view, this copy reads quite clean. First English Edition [based closely on earlier French version published by Deroy].
