The Real Billy Sunday: The Life and Work of Rev. William Ashley Sunday, D.D.

BROWN, Elijah P. [Billy Sunday].

$1,400.00

Item Number: 124135

Dayton, Ohio: The Otterbein Press, 1914.

First edition of Brown’s biography of renowned American evangelist, Billy Sunday. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Sunday, illustrated. Boldly signed by Sunday on the front free endpaper, “W.A. Sunday Psalm 34.” In near fine condition. Books signed by Sunday are uncommon.

Following a career as a popular outfielder in baseball's National League, William Ashley "Billy" Sunday became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist of the first two decades of the 20th century. Sunday's homespun preaching had a wide appeal to his audiences, who were "entertained, reproached, exhorted, and astonished." Sunday claimed to be "an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion" and his uncomplicated sermons spoke of a personal God and following the moral lessons of the Bible.