The Sad Shepherd
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and a date are written in ink on the inner front cover; spine is faded; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration and lettering on the front board. Deckle page edges. 56 very clean unmarked and uncreased spiritual and inspirational pages! "Out of the Valley of Gardens, where a film of new-fallen snow lay smooth as feathers on the breast of a dove, the ancient Pools of Solomon looked up into the night sky with dark, tranquil eyes, wide-open and passive, reflecting the crisp stars and the small, round moon. The full springs, overflowing on the hill-side, melted their way through the field of white in winding channels; and along their course the grass was green even in the dead of winter........." from Chapter I (Darkness).. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049233
- Title
- The Sad Shepherd
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL HISTORICAL RELIGION CHRISTIANITY SPIRITUALITY LITERATURE LITERARY WORKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christian;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Conover Books
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Martinsville, Virginia
About Conover Books
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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