Talks with Boys and Girls; Or, Wisdom Better than Gold
by Comegys, Benjamin B.; (Introduction by Rev. H. Trumbull, D.D.)
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- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- 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. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 237 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in tan publisher's cloth with cover designs embossed in black and in gilt. The binding is worn and rubbed but sound. An early Sunday school library bookplate on the front pastedown is covered up by a pocket. A sound copy. The text is toned with some foxing.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034082
- Title
- Talks with Boys and Girls; Or, Wisdom Better than Gold
- Author
- Comegys, Benjamin B.; (Introduction by Rev. H. Trumbull, D.D.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- 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.
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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...
- Cloth
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
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