IRENAEUS writes: I am not trying to convert this board into a classified ad site. The Administrator gave me permission to post here in the Town Hall. As sorry as I am to part with many of them, I am trying to sell some books, many of which will greatly interest folks on this board, on a first-email, first-sold basis. My email address is wpossidento@yahoo.com.
Abbreviations: pb = paperback; hb, hc =
hardback/hardcover
Shipping (probably via media mail) in USA and Canada: $3 for first book, $1 for each additional in same order. Shipping charges for beyond USA or Canada will require more research. Checks or money orders (in US dollars only please) payable to:
William Possidento
27 Spicer Road
Westport, CT 06880-4528
USA
Please clearly identify the title(s) you are buying (write title(s) on check or money order) and the shipping address. But email me first becuase someone else may have already claimed the book(s)! Thank you.
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St. John of Damascus, On the Divine Images, 1980, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY, pb = good cond., $5.00.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, 1990, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, hc in orig. dust jacket = book like new (but dust jacket worn, torn, tattered), $79.00 (hard to get, and I hate to part with it).
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, vols. I-II, 1980, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard Univ. Press,
Cambridge, MA, Greek on left page, English on right; hb in dust jackets = good cond., (orig. $29.00) $14.00 buys the pair (count as one book for shipping).
Joseph Pieper, Abuse of Language - Abuse of Power,
1992, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, pb = good cond., 54 pp., $3.00.
G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics & Other Evils, 1927, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, hb = good cond. (yellowed pages with ragged cut edges), 246 pp., $9.00.
Garry Wills, Saint Augustine, 1999, A Lipper/Viking Book (part of Penguin lives series), hb in orig. dust jacket = like new, (orig. $19.95) $6.00.
G.H. Guyot, Scriptural References for the Baltimore Catechism, 1946, Roman Catholic Books, Ft. Collins, CO, hb = like new, (orig. $19.95) $9.00.
Michel Schooyans, The Totalitarian Trend of
Liberalism, second edition, 1997, Central Bureau, St. Louis, pb = good cond., $3.00.
Michel Schooyans, Bioethics and Population: The Choice of Life, 1996, Central Bureau, St. Louis, pb = good cond., $3.00.
C. Ward Kischer and Dianne N. Irving, The Human
Development Hoax, second edition, 1997, pb = like new, $3.00.
Lara V. Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the
Contraceptive Pill, 2001, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, hc = like new in orig. dust jacket, $21.00.
Gail Grenier Sweet, ed., Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices, 1985, Life Cycle Books, Lewiston, NY, pb = like new, 234 pp., $4.00.
Regine Pernoud, La femme au temps des cath�drales,
1980, �ditions Stock, pb = good cond., $5.00.
Prudence Allen, The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution, 750 B.C. - A.D. 1250, 1997, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, pb = fair cond. (some slight water (?) staining of a few page corners, some dog-eared pages), $17.00.
Robert Barron, Heaven in Stone and Glass: Experiencing the Spirituality of the Great Cathedrals, 2000, The Crossroad Publishing Co., NY, hc in orig. dust jacket = like new, $9.00.
Steven J. Schloeder, Architecture in Communion:
Implementing the Second Vatican Council through
Liturgy and Architecture, 1998, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, pb = like new, $13.00.
Josef A. Jungmann, The Early Liturgy to the Time of Gregory the Great, 1959, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, hc = good cond., $13.00.
Aidan Nichols, Looking at the Liturgy, 1996, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, pb= good cond., $5.00.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response - A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, 3 May 1983, United States Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C., pb = good cond., $2.00.
Pope John Paul II, On Social Concern (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis), 30 December 1987 Encyclical Letter, United States Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C., pb = good cond., $2.00.
John L. Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path, expanded edition, 1991, Oxford University Press, New York, pb = like new, 251 pp., $7.00.
Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science, 2000,
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, pb = like new, 256 pp., $12.00.
J.W. Burrow, ed., Charles Darwin, The Origin of
Species, 1968, Penguin Books, NY, pb = fair cond.
(cover worn, else fine), $2.00.
Joel E. Cohen, How Many People Can the Earth Support?, 1995, W.H. Norton & Co., NY, hc = like new in orig. dust jacket (also like new), 532 pp., $5.00.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Puntos Centrales de la Fe,
1985, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, Madrid, hc = good condition in orig. dust jacket (dust jacket very worn), $9.00.
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, pb = good cond., $5.00.
Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters, The Noonday Press, NY, pb = like new, $5.00.
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, A New
Directions Paperbook, NY, pb = good cond., $5.00.
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, San Diego, pb = good cond. (rear cover
creased), $5.00.
Thomas Merton, Life and Holiness, Image Books, NY, pb = good cond., $5.00.
St. Thomas Aquinas, The Three Greatest Prayers:
Commentaries on The Lord's Prayer, The Hail Mary, The Apostles' Creed, 1990, Sophia Institute Press,
Manchester, NH, pb = like new, $9.00.
Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, 1964, Grove Press, Inc., NY, pb = fair cond. (cover, some pages, creased), $2.00. (This play helped to popularize a sinister view of Pope Pius XII's role in WWII.)
Joel S. Panzer, The Popes and Slavery, 1996, Alba
House, NY, pb = like new, $5.00.
Louis Bouyer, The Seat of Wisdom: An Essay on the
Place of the Virgin Mary in Christian Theology, 1962, Pantheon Books, NY, hc = good cond. in orig. dust jacket (dust jacket and book cover worn, else fine), $19.00.
Michael O'Carroll, Veni Creator Spiritus: a
theological encyclopedia of the Holy Spirit, 1990, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, hc = like new, $21.00.
A.E. Breen, A General Introduction to the Study of
Holy Scripture, 1908, John P. Smith Printing Co.,
Rochester, NY, hc = good cond. (cover faded, worn,
pages yellowed but fine), $39.00.
W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White, Jr., Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words with Topical Index, 1996, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN, hc = like new in orig. dust jacket (dust jacket also like new), $12.00.
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Editor), Geoffrey Wigoder
(Editor), The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish
Religion, 1997, Oxford University Press, NY, hc = like new in orig. dust jacket (jacket like new), 764 pp., $69.00 (lists for $95.00).
Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Book 1 is D.C. Somervell's Abridgement of Volumes I-VI; Book 2 is D.C. Somervell's Abridgement of Volumes VII-X; pb = very good, $16.00 buys both (count as one book for shipping).
Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, 1990, Penguin Books USA, Inc., NY, pb = good cond., $2.00.
Economist Books, Ltd., Staff, The Economist Guide to Business Numeracy, 1993, The Economist Books / John Wiley & Sons, NY, pb = like new, $2.00.
Economist Books, Ltd., Staff, The Economist Guide to Global Economic Indicators, 1993, The Economist Books / John Wiley & Sons, NY, pb = like new, $2.00.
Jesse Dilson, The Abacus: The World's First Computing System: Where It Comes From, How It Works, and How to Use It to Perform Mathematical Feats Great and Small, 1995, St. Martin's Press, NY, pb = like new, $11.00 includes wooden abacus.
The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (14th Edition), 1993, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, hc = like new in orig. dust jacket (jacket also like new), $29.00.
Bob Moore and Maxine Moore, NTC's Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins: A Comprehensive Guide to the Classical Origins of English Words, 1997, NTC
Publishing Group, Lincolnwood (Chicago), IL, pb = like new, $5.00.
Raleigh Trevelyan, Parallel Text Italian Short stories 1/ Racconti Italiani, 1965, Penguin Books USA, Inc., Italian stories side-by-side with English translations, pb = good cond., 183 pp., $2.00.
Hugo-French Phrase Book, Enlarged edition, 1993,
Hugo's Language Books Limited, Suffolk, England, pb = like new (very compact, approx. 5" x 3"), $2.00.
Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles, Easy Reader level B (A is easiest, D is hardest), 1975, with notes and illustrations for learning French, pb = good cond. (slight cover wear), $2.00.
Alphonse Daudet, Lettres de mon moulin, Easy Reader level A (A is easiest, D is hardest), 1975, with notes and illustrations for learning French, pb = good cond. (slight cover wear), $2.00.
R. de Roussy de Sales, Easy French Reader: A
Three-Part text for Beginning Students, 1992, NTC
Publishing Group, Lincolnwood (Chicago), IL, pb = good cond. (but I answered many questions and crossword puzzles, in pencil), 218 pp., $4.00
Marie-Th�r�se Goosse-Grevisse, Textes Fran�ais: pour l'enseignement secondaire (degr� inf�rieur) et l'inseignement technique, deuxi�me �dition refondue, 1971, Duculot, Gembloux, France, pb = good cond. (this collection is fairly advanced), 418 pp., $5.00.
Collins French College Dictionary: French-English,
English-French, 1991, Harper Collins Publishers,
plastic laminated, good cond., (approx. 5" x 8" x 2"), 749 pp., $5.00.
Julio Celestin, French Grammar: HarperCollins College Outline, 1991, HarperCollins Publishers, NY, pb = like new, 330 pp., $6.00.
Christopher Kendris, 501 French Verbs, third edition, 1990, Barron's Educational Series, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, pb = like new, $3.00.
James S. Noblitt, Nouveau Point de Vue, 1978, D.C.
Heath & Co., Lexington, MA, hc = fair cond. (cover
faded, corners bent, occasional pencil marks), $5.00. (University level French text.)
Randall Bourscheidt, general ed., Sarah S. Peterson, assoc. ed., NYC Culture Catalog: A Guide to New York City's Museums, Theaters, Zoos, Libraries, Botanical Gardens, Concert Halls and Historic Houses, 1994, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, pb = very good, 220 pp., $2.00.
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