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London: Quaker Home Service,1997.. 1st ed. "...a very personal look at the late twentieth century Religious Society of Friends. It comments on the effects of increased liberalism, individualism and the 'culture of silence' when trying to consider the transmission of Quaker faith and values." Pp.198. P/b. VG.

London: SCM, 1965.. 1st.ed. "This book should not only help all its readers to know clearly what it means to be a Quaker; It will also help them to pray and work for a good dose of Quaker simplicity." Pp, 127. P/b. G.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1980.. 1st ed. "The Quaker Enterprise traces the development of several major Quaker family concerns." Pp. 176, 16 b/w illustrations. Turquoise green cloth, gilt title to spine, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1968.. These lectures, given at Westminster Meeting House in October and November 1966, were an attempt to examine some of the implications of selected passages from the Advices and Queries." Pp.38. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1958.. 1st edition. Compiled at the suggestion of the Race Relations Committee of the (British) Society of Friends. "Quaker testimony against racial discrimination grew gradually and sometimes hesitatingly out of the witness against slavery, but slavery itself was accepted by many Friends during the 17th century. It was the cruelties of the slave-trade which first disturbed the consciences of Friends and drove them to work for its abolition..." Pp.63, creasing to final page, toning to endpapers. Green cloth, gilt title to front, spine slightly sunned. G+.

London: The Swarthmore Press Ltd, 1923.. 1st edition. Contents: Part I. The Seventeenth Century; Part II.The Ground of the Peace Testimony; III.The Eighteenth Century; IV.The Nineteenth Century; V.Friends Abroad. VI.Conclusion: The Twentieth Century. Ex Hengrave Hall library. Pp.560, Hengrave Hall bookplate to front free endpaper, library pocket to final page, library form to rear free endpaper, toned corners to endpapers, minor spotting to closed page edges. Good.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980.. 1st ed. "Here is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day when the first Quaker-owned ship sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta in 1815 until, more than a century later, Quakers both Indian and expatriate shared the joys and also the sufferings of the final struggle which brought two new nations to birth in 1947." Pp. 10/178. Pbk, slight sunning to spine and rear cover. G+.

London: National Council of Evangelical Free Churches,1905.. 2nd imp. Eras of Nonconformity series.Ex libris. Pp7/180/1, portrait frontis.(George Fox), library stamps, label(Friends Meeting House,Guildford) to fep. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges rubbed. G+.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1932] .. First edition signed by the author, plus two small letters also signed by L. V. Holdsworh. 7.75" x 5.25" x 1.00. pp.14/[2pp.]/pp.191 . Original grey cloth covered boards. Spine darkened with bright gilt titles. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Newspaper cutting laid-down to the verso of the front board: "Old Quaker Mss. Found" (1942). Pencil dedication to front free-endpaper: "To another Oxfordian, with best wishes for the propagation of the true faith about the glorious memory of E. de Vere. From L. Violet Holdsworth. Bareppa, Falmouth, Easter, 1940." Light foxing to edge of half title and page edges, otherwise very clean, with all six full-page illustrations by G. E. Chambers. colophon to the verso of the title (and also to the verso of the last leaf): "Printed In Great Britain At the Temple Press, letchworth, Herts. First Published in 1932". The first letter to Mrs. Cra'ster is dated 23:IV:40 and handwritten. It includes: "...I agree with practically… Leer más

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends,nd.. Quaker quotations. Pp.22. Stiff card covers. VG.

Sudbury: Printed nd published by J. Wright, 1848 .. 8vo. 23cm x 14cm x 3.5cm. Original blind stamped cloth and gilt title to spine. Inscription to verso front board; "Friends Library, Wilverston." Yellow endpapers. Printed title with inscription dated 1849. Clean English text. Overall a well preserved book. "Minute Of Bury Monthly Meeting. A Minister deceased. Sarah Grubb, of Sudbury, widow of the late John Grubb, aged about sixty-nine years, a minister fifty-two years; who died the 16th day of Third Month, 1842, and was interred in Friend's Burial ground, at Sudbury, the 23rd of the same..."

Uxbridge: Religious Society Of Friends, 1970.. Small historical monograph researched, amongst other things, from the minute books of Quaker Meetings in Uxbridge. "There is a feeling of a family about a Quaker Meeting, and in the written records, especially the earlier ones, the virtues, the faults, and the most personal details of their lives are most lovingly recorded." Pp.iv/19, 4 b/w plates. Cream boards with black cloth spine, minor rubbing to covers. Scarce. VG.

London: George Allen and Unwin,1942.. 5th printing. Pp.221/3(ads), crease to fep. Blue/green card covers, rubbed. G+.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927.. 1st edition. "While the student of theology will here find much food for meditation, the general reader may well be more interested in the biographical and psychological side of the volume, in the three-cornered drama which its earlier sections present between the author of the "Serious Call", the poet Byrom, and the future "minister", Fanny Henshaw, whose career admirably illustrates both the strength and the weakness of contemporary Quakerism." Pp.342, 8 black & white plates, minor spotting to closed page edges, slight toning to endpapers. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has edge tears and browning to spine and borders. G+/Good.

London: Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd. [1916].. First edition. 8vo. pp.332 . Clean text with light spotting to page edges. With 24 full-page illustrations (including frontis). Clean gray boards with white titles to front board and spine. VG .