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2013 10 11 Catalog LANCASTER MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S BENEFIT AUCTION OF RARE, OUT-OF-PRINT, AND USED BOOKS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013, AT 6:30 P.M. TEL: (717) 393-9745; FAX: (717) 393-8751; EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.lmhs.org/ The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will conduct an auction on October 11, 2013, at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one-half mile east of the intersection of Routes 30 and 462. The last remaining sale date for 2013 is December 13. The auction not only specializes in local and denominational history and genealogy of southeastern Pennsylvania, but also includes theological works and other types of material of interest to the nationwide constituency. Please refer to the last page of the catalog for book auction procedures. Individual catalogs are available from the Society for $8.00 ($4.00 for Society members) + $3.00 postage and handling. Persons who wish to be added to the mailing list for the rest of 2013 may do so by sending $8.00 ($4.00 for Society members) with name and address to the Society. Higher rates apply for subscribers outside of the United States. All subscriptions expire at the end of the calendar year. The catalog is also available for free on our web site at www.lmhs.org/auction.html. 1. Peters, Victor. All Things Common: The Hutterian Way of Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965. xiii, [ii], 233pp (dj, b/w ill, bib refs, ind, syp, gc); Hofer, Samuel. The Hutterite Community Cookbook. Saskatoon, Sask.: Hofer Publishing, 1992. 176pp (pb, b/w ill, ind, vgc). 2. Peter, Karl A. The Dynamics of Hutterite Society: An Analytical Approach. Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press, 1987. 232pp (dj, bib, ppn, gc); Riley, Marvin P. The Hutterite Brethren: An Annotated Bibliography with Special Reference to South Dakota Hutterite Colonies. Bulletin 529. Brookings: Agricultural Experiment Station, Sociology Department, South Dakota State University, 1965. 188pp (pb, ind, sl yellowed pp and covers, gc); Gross, Paul S. Who Are the Hutterites. Pincher Creek, Alta.: Author, [1959]. 16pp (pb, 5¾” x 3½”, vgc). 3. Kybalová, Jana, and Jarmila Novotná. Habánská Fajáns, 1590-1730. Exhibition of Habaner ware. [Prague]: Umeleckopru lo u eu Pra e: ora k alerie rne, 1981. 253, [3]pp (pb, mostly b/w ill, bib, syp, back cover sl creased, gc); Bennett, John W. Hutterian Brethren: The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1967. ix, [vi], 298pp (dj, b/w ill, bib, ind, vgc); Hildebrand, Bodo. Erziehung zur Gemeinschaft: Geschichte und Gegenwart des erziehungswesens der Hutterer. Forum Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 5. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993. 219pp (pb, bib, is, ppn, gc). 4. The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren. Vol. 1, known as Das große Geschichtbuch der Hutterischen Brüder. Translated and edited by the Hutterian Brethren. Rifton, N.Y.: Plough Pub. House, 1987. lxxv, 887pp (fp, b/w ill, bib, ind, ps, ppn, sheet of notes tipped in inside back cover, gc). 5. Friedmann, Robert. Hutterite Studies: Essays. Edited by Harold S. Bender. 338, [1]pp (bib, copy of S.C. Yoder, syp, gc); Waltner, Emil J. Banished for Faith. Freeman, S.D.: Pine Hill Press, 219pp (b/w ill, bib, syp, gc); Riley, Marvin P. The Hutterite Brethren: An Annotated Bibliography with Special Reference to South Dakota Hutterite Colonies. Bulletin 529. Brookings: Agricultural Experiment Station, Sociology Department, South Dakota State University, 1965. 188pp (pb, ind, sl yellowed pp and covers, gc). 6. Hostetler, J.; L. Gross; and E. Bender, Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation, 1542-1654, 1975. 160pp (comb bd, bib refs, syp, yellowed front cover, gc); Brednich, R., The Bible and the Plough: The Lives of a Hutterite Minister and a Mennonite Farmer, 1981. 141pp (pb, b/w ill, bib, sl yellowed pp and covers, gc); National Geographic, Vol. 138 (1970), no. 1, which include W. Allard, “The Hutterite , Plain People of the West (pp 98-125) (pb, ill, covers torn and creased, gc); Ryan, R., The Agricultural Economy of Manitoba Hutterite Colonies, 1977. xiv, 306pp (pb, b/w ill, bib, sps, tp missing, many loose pp, covers torn and creased, pc); Arnold, E., The Hutterian Brothers: Four Centuries of Common Life and Work, 1940. 45pp (pb, loose pp, syp, mc). 7. Gross, P., The Hutterite Way: The Inside Story of the Life, Customs, Religion and Traditions of the Hutterites (signed by author); Hostetler, J., Hutterite Life (1965); Hostetler, J., Hutterite Life (1983); Riley, M., and D. Johnson, South Dakota’ Hutterite Colonie , 1874-1969; Hofer, S., Born Hutterite: Stories; James Valley Hutterite Address Book (2000); The Hutterian Brethren: Christians in Community; Palmgrove, a Christian Community in Africa (first item dj, last 7 items pb, gc to vgc). 8. Bender, Harold S. Two Centuries of American Mennonite Literature: A Bibliography of Mennonitica Americana, 1727-1928. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 1. Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1929. xii, [x], 181pp (b/w ill, ind, yp, back cover edge sl soiled, gc). 9. Horsch, John. The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931: A Story of Martyrdom and Loyalty. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 2. Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1931. xxi, 168pp (b/w maps, bib, ind, caif, yp, covers sl worn, back cover warped and cracked, mc). 10. Umble, John Sylvanus. Ohio Mennonite Sunday Schools. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 5. Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1941. 522pp (dj, b/w ill, map on endpapers, ind, syp, several page corners creased, gc). 11. Belk, Fred Richard. The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no. 18. 251pp (dj, b/w ill, bib, ind, foxing on top edge, gc). 12. Wenger, John C. History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Pub. House, 1938. xiv, [i], 523pp (fp, b/w ill, bib, ind, presentation copy from author to his wife, photographs and other items pasted inside covers, caif, ppn, yp, gc). 13. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Hrsg. Von Christian Hege und Christian Neff. 1.-3. Banden. Frankfurt am Main und Weierhof: Im Selbstverlag der Herausgeber, 1913, 1937, [1958]. 717, [3]; 288pp (b/w ill, 1. and 2. Banden copies of Page 2 October 11, 2013 Melvin Gingerich, printed pp alternated with blank lvs, 3. Band lacks tp, syp, gc). 14. The Complete Works of Menno Simons, Translated from the Original Dutch or Holland, Containing Renunciation of Popery, Foundation and Plain Instruction, the True Christian Faith, Concerning the New Birth, Cross of Christ, Pleasing Meditation on the Twenty-Fifth Psalm, the Spiritual Resurrection, Excommunication, the Education of Children, Reply to Gellius Faber, a Supplication to Christians, Apology, Reply to John a’La co, the Triune, Eternal and True God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Christian Baptism, Reason Why, a Confession, Reply to Zylis, and Lemmekes, Replication, the Incarnation, Reply to Martin Micron, Jesus, the True Scriptural David, Letters, &c. Elkhart, Ind.: John F. Funk and Brother, 1871. 288, 455pp (al, ind, copy of Jonas Loucks, Bought of Mary Burkholder in the year 1923, copy of Simon Hochstetler in the year 1938, foxing, caif, yp, spine cover torn and taped, covers worn, mc). 15. Funk, John F. The Mennonite Church and Her Accusers. A Vindication of the Character of the Mennonite Church of America from Her First Organization in This Country to the Present Time. Elkhart, Ind.: Mennonite Pub. Co., 1878. 210pp (quarter bd, ind, caif, yp, pp 207-208 missing, spine cover missing, mc). 16. The Recovery of the Anabaptist Vision: A Sixtieth Anniversary Tribute to Harold S. Bender. Edited by Guy F. Hershberger. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1957. 360pp (dj, fp, bib refs, ind, copy of H. Clair Amstutz, M.D., ps, syp, covers sl worn, gc); Wenger, John Christian. Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine. 4th printing, rev. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1959. 258pp (fp, bibs, ind, copy of S.C. Yoder, syp, gc). 17. Smith, C. Henry. The Mennonites of America. Goshen, Ind.: Published by the author, 1909. 484pp (bib, ind, exlib, syp, several loose pp, covers sl worn, mc). 18. Same as above. 511pp (fp, b/w ill, bib refs, ind, caif, stis, syp, covers sl worn, gc); Oyer, John S. Lutheran Reformers Against Anabaptists: Luther, Melanchthon and Menius and the Anabaptists of Central Germany. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964; reprint ed., Paris, Ark.: Baptist Standard Bearer, [2000?]. [x], 269pp (pb, fp, bib, ind, vgc); Refocusing a Vision: Shaping Anabaptist Character in the 21st Century. Edited by John D. Roth. Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1995. 112pp (pb, bib refs, covers sl worn, gc). 19. Smith, C. Henry. The Story of the Mennonites. 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged. Newton, Kan.: Mennonite Publication Office, 1950. x, [i], 856pp (b/w ill, bib, ind, copy of John S. Oyer, caif, ds, syp, covers faded, mc). 20. Bender, Harold S. Conrad Grebel, the First Leader of the Swiss Brethren: Humanist Years. [Goshen, Ind.]: Privately printed by the author, 1936. Offprint from: Mennonite Quarterly Review. Vol. 10 (1936), no. 1-3. 99pp (pb, bib refs, yellowed pp and covers, spine cover missing, front and back covers sl stained and creased, mc). 21. Bender, H.S, The Anabaptist Vision (1945); Bender, H.S., Conrad Grebel as a Zwinglian, 1522-1523; Bender, H.S., The Theology of Conrad Grebel, II; Quiring, H., The Anthropology of Pilgram Marbeck; Rotondò, A., Calvin and the Italian Anti-Trinitarians; Gross, P.S., The Defence Against the Prozess at Worms on the Rhine in the Year 1557; Twisk, P., The Peaceful Kingdom of Christ; or, An Exposition of the 20th Chapter of Revelation (all pb, first 4 items offprints from Mennonite Quarterly Review, gc).
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