Talks with Boys and Girls; Or, Wisdom Better than Gold. New Edition.
by Comegys, Benjamin B.; (Introduction by Rev. H. Trumbull, D.D.)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The American Sunday-School Union, 1879. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 237 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in plain brown cloth with spine titles in gilt. The binding is worn and rubbed. An early Sunday school library bookplate on the front pastedown is covered up by a pocket. The front flyleaf has a paper label with another Church Library's information written. Library ink stamp above this. Inner hinges cracking, and the text block is cocked. Text is foxed.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034083
- Title
- Talks with Boys and Girls; Or, Wisdom Better than Gold. New Edition.
- Author
- Comegys, Benjamin B.; (Introduction by Rev. H. Trumbull, D.D.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The American Sunday-School Union
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- 1879; ; Rev. H. Trumbull; Benjamin B. Comegys; Boys; Youth; 19th century; Christian; Evangelization; Christianity; Collectible; Pastor; Evengelism; Evangelical; Ministers. South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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