AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN LEMLEY,
by LEMLEY, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- good cloth
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Rockford, Illinois, 1875. Enlarged Third edition. Hardcover. good cloth. portrait frontispiece. Octavo, 400 pages, embossed green cloth with pebbly texture; Printed by Marder, Luse & Co., Electrotypers, Chicago; later yellow endpapers, covers scuffed, worn near heel of spine
Alger-like story of a German immigrant beggar-boy who becomes the founder of the Christian newspaper, The Golden Censer, at Rockford, Illinois. The publication history is unusual. "Put into type and printed from time to time, over a period of more than three years, in the Rockford printing shop of the author. ... Though called the "third edition" this is really the first complete narrative. The first edition was simply a sketch published in the initial number of the Censer, and the second was a 64-page pamphlet published in 1870 - Jenkins, A FULL HOWES." [ Howes L251]. Portrait frontispiece.
Alger-like story of a German immigrant beggar-boy who becomes the founder of the Christian newspaper, The Golden Censer, at Rockford, Illinois. The publication history is unusual. "Put into type and printed from time to time, over a period of more than three years, in the Rockford printing shop of the author. ... Though called the "third edition" this is really the first complete narrative. The first edition was simply a sketch published in the initial number of the Censer, and the second was a 64-page pamphlet published in 1870 - Jenkins, A FULL HOWES." [ Howes L251]. Portrait frontispiece.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0006236
- Title
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN LEMLEY,
- Author
- LEMLEY, John
- Illustrator
- portrait frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Enlarged Third edition
- Place of Publication
- Rockford, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Rockford, Winnebago County, New England, Evanston,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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