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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
by A Roving Bee [Sophia Holworthy]; with a Preface by Charles Hesketh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13259
- Title
- Possession and Profession: Noon-day Meditations for the Thoughtful and the Thoughtless, A Suggestive Companion for Summer Strolls or Winter Firesides
- Author
- A Roving Bee [Sophia Holworthy]; with a Preface by Charles Hesketh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Nisbet & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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