Binding: Contemporary treed calf with clusters of small bosses in center and at corners of covers; red leather label on spine, gilt-filletted and -rolled above and below and gilt-lettered; remnants of clasps on edges of covers. All edges saffron.

Provenance: Rubber-stamp of Lee D. Snyder on front pastedown, verso of title-leaf, and reverse of many plates.

•  Cf. O’Callaghan 181; not in Darlow & Moule. Binding as above with some scratches; joints and edges rubbed. Small holes or chips out of a few pages with loss of individual letters, not affecting sense. Small hole in printed area of plate facing p. 119. Foxed with some soiling on the sectional title-page of the New Testament and a few darker spots elsewhere. A good, solid, satisfying copy.

This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available, for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.

•  Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above, corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto, dulling outermost elements of gilt border (only) on front cover, just at those corners. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages (only). The whole very attractive and well preserved.

Scarce.  OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only one U.S. holding of this edition.

•  Darlow & Moule 7340; Book of a Thousand Tongues (2nd ed.) 1047 (for first ed.).   Publisher's blue textured cloth, spine with printed paper label; boards and spine sunned (spine more so), with cloth cracked at joints and rubbed at extremities, spine label chipped and faded, spine with small area of discoloration and inked shelving number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplates. Two leaves towards front and last two leaves each with inner margins reinforced some time ago. Pages slightly age-toned, with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis and marginalia in both English and Farsi.  (25151)

WorldCat fails to locate any U.S. institutional holdings but we know that the American Bible Society recently acquired a copy.

•  Darlow & Moule 1823; North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 60.   Recent maroon fabrikoid with black fabrikoid spine label. Original free endpapers retained, soiled, chipped at edge, and with some writing in Armenian. Text generally age-toned but paper good; all edges saffron.  (29737)

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•  Publisher's purple cloth with faded printed paper spine label. Ex-library: call number on spine, bookplate removed, pencilled notations, rubber-stamps. Withal, a clean crisp copy.  (21736)

Provenance: Late-20th-century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown.

•  Not in Darlow & Moule; not in O'Callaghan. Contemporary speckled sheep; spine with double gilt rules and a black leather title label, gilt-lettered. Rubbed, label chipped at edges, front joint opening at top. Scattered foxing; one leaf lacking, in the Apocalypse of St. John. All edges speckled brown.

•  Darlow & Moule 9129.   Publisher's limp textured cloth, front cover with printed paper label; corners and spine extremities very very slightly rubbed. Outer edge of front free endpaper a bit chewed; pages clean. A lovely copy.  (29276)

WorldCat locates only one U.S. institutional holding

•  Not in Darlow & Moule.   Publisher's limp textured cloth, front cover with printed paper label; minimal wear to spine. Pages clean.  (29294)

•  Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15152)

•  Binding as above, with light rubbing overall and significant rubbing to spine and corners; spine pulled at top and bottom and joints (outside) rubbed, with rear lower joint starting and with remnant of old inked shelf location to one band. Occasional faint smudges; pages mostly remarkably clean.A handsome and studyable thing.  (27372)

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Uncommon: We find only one copy reported as held in a U.S. library.

•  Darlow & Moule 9538.   Publisher's red cloth stamped in blind and with one word in gilt on front cover. A very good copy.  (25045)

Only one U.S. library reports owning a copy of this translation.

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•  Darlow & Moule 9564 (for the 1904 printing).   Publisher's quarter brown cloth with tan paper covers, stamped in blind. “Kazakhstan Russia” in ballpoint on the front free endpaper. A very good copy.  (25046)

The first translation of any book of the Bible into Pangasinan did not come about until 1887, followed by the first Testament in 1908 and the first complete Bible in 1915. This is the first printing of the Pentateuch.  It was translated by Eduardo Benitez assisted by Teodoro Basconcillo and A. Rayner, all of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. It has chapter headings and some footnotes.

Rare.  Searches of NUC Pre-1956, COPAC, and OCLC locate no copies in U.S. libraries and only the B.F.B.S. copy at Cambridge.

•  North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 346.   Publisher's flexible black fabric over light boards, stamped in blind on front cover; expertly rebacked and remnants of original spine reapplied. Small “nick” to fore-edge of first two leaves, without loss; paper a little age-toned, with interior otherwise quite clean. Housed in a dark blue cloth clamshell case.  (25180)

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The title-page states: “This book is one of 300 [copies] paid for by the parishioners of Beecroft and Cheltenham in the Diocese of Sydney, in memory of the Rev. Joseph Young, Rector of the Parish 1903-1926. He passed to his rest on the 21st January, 1945.”

Uncommon.  We trace only two copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Publisher's red cloth. “North Central New Georgia” in ballpoint on the front free endpaper. A very good copy.  (25022)