Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, And What I Saw There
by Arthur, T. S. [Timothy Shaw (1809-1885)]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1855. Hardcover. Cloth on boards very worn and rubbed and dampstained and dust-stained and wrinkled. 10mm chips to cloth at ends of spine. Internally good. No signatures. ; 1855 UK edition of a work first published in the USA in 1854. 156 pages + [4] pages advertisements. Red cloth boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 156 x 106mm. Temperance novel. American author. "The book is a temperance novel, written expressly to discourage readers from drinking alcohol. It was a commercial and popular success upon its release and was later adapted into other media." - Wikipedia entry, "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There", accessed April 2022. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23564
- Title
- Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, And What I Saw There
- Author
- Arthur, T. S. [Timothy Shaw (1809-1885)]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Scottish Temperance League
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1855
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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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
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- Fair
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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