York: William Sessions. Blind stamped, worn and damp stained brown cloth cover with gold lettering on spine, small holes on cover and spine, bottom edge of covers curved. Spine cocked, rfe and frontis foxed, owner name, minimal foxing, some yellowing to pages. Account of recorded minister among Quakers, 1794-1869, who spent years in Australia and New Zealand ministering to convicts. . Fair. Hardcover. Second edition. 1877.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 62167
Title: Memoir of James Backhouse by his Sister
Author: [Backhouse]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: William Sessions
Place of Publication: York
Date Published: 1877
Keywords: BIOGRAPHY; RELIGION; QUAKER; WOMEN; PRISON MINISTRY; RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS; CHRISTIANITY Quaker, Religion, Religious Society of Friends
Bookseller catalogs: Quaker, Religion, Religious Society of Friends;

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About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop

We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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....
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....