DAVID SWING POET - PREACHER
by NEWTON, Joseph Fort
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's original green cloth with gilt spine and upper panel lettering within blind rule, quarto, pp. 273. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edges uncut. Many pages unopened. Tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Swing, with some offsetting to title page despite the tissue. Three other full page illustrations, as called for. Previous owner, using perhaps a dull implement or unsteady hand, caused a small half-moon shaped loss of paper at top of Title page when separating it from Dedication page. That tab of paper missing from Title page remains attached at top edge of Dedication page. Shelf wear at spine ends and board tips. Front hinge weak. About Good condition, withal. Printed at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3721
- Title
- DAVID SWING POET - PREACHER
- Author
- NEWTON, Joseph Fort
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: Unity Publishing Company, 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Theology; Illinois;
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