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  • RELIGIOUS PERPLEXITIES. by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall 1860-1955)
    Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall 1860-1955)
    RELIGIOUS PERPLEXITIES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: George H. Doran, (1923). Hardcover first edition - The author's foreword notes that "The substance of this little book was delivered in the form of two lectures given at the invitation of the Hibbert Trustees in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham during March and April, 1922." Jacks was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister. Among his early associates were associates included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Oscar Wilde, and in 1922 he hosted the Austrian philosopher and educator, Dr Rudolf Steiner, at Manchester. A small slim volume. 92 pp.

    Condition: Very good in rust colored cloth - binding somewhat cracked before half title page, a few scattered lines with pencil underlining.

    Book ID: 83373
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  • NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story. by [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett.
    [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett.
    NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Spiritual Odyssey that Ended in an Act of Violence in the Streets of Selma, Alabama and Galvanized the Conscience of a Nation." James Reeb was a white minister, working for social justice in the Roxbury ghetto of Boston, when he went to Selma, Alabama in response to Martin Luther King's call for clergy of all denominations to make a stand for civil rights. Two days later, leaving a restaurant with two fellow Unitarian ministers, he was brutally murdered. The author of this biography based it on his extensive research and interviews with those who knew Reeb, and also his own personal experience of working with Reeb in…

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    New York: Harper & Row, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Spiritual Odyssey that Ended in an Act of Violence in the Streets of Selma, Alabama and Galvanized the Conscience of a Nation." James Reeb was a white minister, working for social justice in the Roxbury ghetto of Boston, when he went to Selma, Alabama in response to Martin Luther King's call for clergy of all denominations to make a stand for civil rights. Two days later, leaving a restaurant with two fellow Unitarian ministers, he was brutally murdered. The author of this biography based it on his extensive research and interviews with those who knew Reeb, and also his own personal experience of working with Reeb in the 5 years before his death. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 242 pp.

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    Condition: Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affecting the margins of the endpapers and a few pages, some bleeding from the cloth to the interior of the dj) Despite the flaws this is a decent copy of an uncommon book.

    Book ID: 84958
    View cart More details Price: $125.00