THE CONQUEST OF DEATH
by [Americana] Kinney, Abbot
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good binding
- Seller
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Privately published, 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. x, 259 pp. First edition. In publisher's cloth with title in gold on the front cover and spine. Relatively light shelfwear and soiling including a vertical scratch in the center of the front cover; spine is a trifle darkened; rear board is a bit bumped on the fore-edge; contents clean.
A very curious work by one most known as serious conservationist and developer. The seeds of this off-topic work for Kinney were planted when, in his words, "twenty years ago the fact was brought to my attention that two of the sovereign States of our Union had lost population between the years 1860 and 1870." He goes on to puzzle how this might be with New Hampshire and Maine in the face of immigration from Canada and Ireland, before lighting on topics "taken from serious publications": abortion and contraception. He goes on in the introduction to wonder why the rural populations are diminishing while urban populations are increasing. What follows is predictable, a discussion of sex, birth, parenting, marital advice, and religion that is predictably cringe-worthy. All that aside, this is a very nice copy of a remarkably uncommon book with scarcely two dozen institutional holding (OCLC 8099193) and seldom seen in the trade.
A very curious work by one most known as serious conservationist and developer. The seeds of this off-topic work for Kinney were planted when, in his words, "twenty years ago the fact was brought to my attention that two of the sovereign States of our Union had lost population between the years 1860 and 1870." He goes on to puzzle how this might be with New Hampshire and Maine in the face of immigration from Canada and Ireland, before lighting on topics "taken from serious publications": abortion and contraception. He goes on in the introduction to wonder why the rural populations are diminishing while urban populations are increasing. What follows is predictable, a discussion of sex, birth, parenting, marital advice, and religion that is predictably cringe-worthy. All that aside, this is a very nice copy of a remarkably uncommon book with scarcely two dozen institutional holding (OCLC 8099193) and seldom seen in the trade.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6829
- Title
- THE CONQUEST OF DEATH
- Author
- [Americana] Kinney, Abbot
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately published
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Americana; Science & Medicine;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...