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Possession and Profession: Noon-day Meditations for the Thoughtful and the Thoughtless, A Suggestive Companion for Summer Strolls or Winter Firesides
por A Roving Bee [Sophia Holworthy]; with a Preface by Charles Hesketh
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Good with no dust jacket
- Livreiro
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: James Nisbet & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing to boards. Moderate foxing. Tidemarks to upper margins of some leaves. Small paper label at tail of spine (Private owner's label, this is not an ex-library copy).; Christian philosophical thoughts and musings. Includes quotes from other Christian writers, including Leighton, St. Augustine, Archbishop Trench; Rev. J. Ryle, Rev. H. Elliot. x, [2], 418 pages + Errata Slip + [2], 16 pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. Page dimensions: 171 x 112mm. Contents: The Call; The Conflict; The Work; The Songs; The Book; The Joys; The Companions; The Recreation; The Occupation; The Sayings; The Cross; The Crown. (One section for each month of the year).; 8vo .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 13259
- Título
- Possession and Profession: Noon-day Meditations for the Thoughtful and the Thoughtless, A Suggestive Companion for Summer Strolls or Winter Firesides
- Autor
- A Roving Bee [Sophia Holworthy]; with a Preface by Charles Hesketh
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Good with no dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- James Nisbet & Co.
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1870
Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
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Glossário
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
