Strange Tales From Humble Life: First Series
by John Ashworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1884. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, separately paginated, blindstamped cloth, minor insect damage at spine.
Ashworth was an author, lecturer, a manufacturer, and a non-conformist minister, and founder of the Chapel of the Destitute. STRANGE TALES is considered his chief work. Originally published as separate tracts, each tale here has its own pagination. These are true stories of people he met in his enterprises.
Ashworth was an author, lecturer, a manufacturer, and a non-conformist minister, and founder of the Chapel of the Destitute. STRANGE TALES is considered his chief work. Originally published as separate tracts, each tale here has its own pagination. These are true stories of people he met in his enterprises.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5686
- Title
- Strange Tales From Humble Life
- Author
- John Ashworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Henry Longstreth
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1884
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author);
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
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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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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