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Heretics
by Chesterton, G. K
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair, 1st edition (3rd printing in same year), no d/j, red boards (scuffed, with bumping and soiling) with blind impressed rulin
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. 3rd edition. hardback. Fair, 1st edition (3rd printing in same year), no d/j, red boards (scuffed, with bumping and soiling) with blind impressed ruling and gilt cover design and spine titling; text block firm, pages untrimmed and unmarked, but sunning throughout and foxing on endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905. While the loci of the chapters of Heretics are personalities, the topics he debates are universal to the ""vague moderns"" of the 21st century century as it was to those of the 20th
Synopsis
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George Bernard Shaw and H.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131797
- Title
- Heretics
- Author
- Chesterton, G. K
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair, 1st edition (3rd printing in same year), no d/j, red boards (scuffed, with bumping and soiling) with blind impressed rulin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 306
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- theology, apologetics, Christianity, Chesterton
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- Spine
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- 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...
- G
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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