Product code: Wartimes Service Prayer purchases Books
Wartime personal effects — (1) 1816 Testament and Psalms Bible — Great condition, over 200 years old, spine in tact and sturdy, no creasing. American Bible Society founded, and produces its first Bible, a stereotyped edition, and the first book to bear its imprint; Elias Boudinot, first president of the Continental Congress, becomes the Society's first president; the ABS became a pioneer of American publishing with innovations such as centralized production, national distribution, steam-powered printing, machine-made paper, and in-house binding. The stated goal of the ABS was “a bible to every household.” (1) Army/Navy Service Book — 1941 Revised Edition by the National Lutheran Council — by C.M. Jacobs and P.Z. Strodach— The Castle Press l, Philadelphia (1) Service purchases Prayer Book — Fourteenth printing (30,000) October 1942– Printed in the USA by Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis, MN.
Wartime personal effects — (1) 1816 Testament and Psalms Bible — Great condition, over 200 years old, spine in tact and sturdy, no creasing. American Bible Society founded, and produces its first Bible, a stereotyped edition, and the first book to bear its imprint; Elias Boudinot, first president of the Continental Congress, becomes the Society's first president; the ABS became a pioneer of American publishing with innovations such as centralized production, national distribution, steam-powered printing, machine-made paper, and in-house binding. The stated goal of the ABS was “a bible to every household.” (1) Army/Navy Service Book — 1941 Revised Edition by the National Lutheran Council — by C.M. Jacobs and P.Z. Strodach— The Castle Press l, Philadelphia (1) Service purchases Prayer Book — Fourteenth printing (30,000) October 1942– Printed in the USA by Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis, MN.