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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

You can buy a printed edition of this book on the site of the publisher.

1918

1918.10
To be near unto God.
Grand Rapids. MI, Eerdmans-Sevensma Co. 1918. [2], 288 pp., 12cm.—$0.50.
Published: September 1918.
Soldiers’ edition.
Translation (partial) of: 1908.21 (volume 1).
Complete translation, see: 1918:11.
Translated by: Rev. John Hendrik De Vries (see 1892.05).
Binding: full cloth (khaki colored); limp covers; rounded corners; colored edge; no free endpapers.
[S.l., s.n., s.a.] 96 pp., 12cm.—unbd.
Cover title: To be near unto God.
Verso: Copyright 1918. By J.H. De Vries, D.D.
Paper cover.

This edition (same typesetting as the complete edition) contains the translation of meditations 1–53 from the first volume of 1908.21 (which contains fifty-six meditations in total). The publisher referred to this booklet in advertisements as “the soldiers’ edition.” A particular sales incentive was connected with the edition. Whenever the address of a solider was submitted along with a payment of $0.50, the publisher would make sure that that soldier received a copy wherever he was on duty. A review of the book in De Wachter (no. 37, October 2, 1918) remarked in passing that these meditations were among the most beautiful that Kuyper had written, concluding that they were “thus also outstanding reading material for our soldiers on the battlefield.”

An even smaller edition was published (either for promotional purposes or possibly as a title in Eerdmans’ “ten cent special” series), which contained meditations 1–18 from 1918.10: