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What He Lived By: Prayers of Edward Increase Bosworth
by Edward Increase Bosworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Association Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1931 Association Press (New York), 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches tall brown cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover, leaves printed only on recto side, lx [60] ff. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight chipping to the bottom edges of the first couple of leaves. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a moderately chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~F~ [1.0P] Edward I. Bosworth (1861-1927) attended Oberlin College and Yale University. He then received his B.D. from the Oberlin School of Theology, and his M.D. after studying at the Universities of Leipzig and Athens. Bosworth became a pastor at the Congregational Church at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He taught New Testament language and literature at Oberlin School of Theology from 1887 to 1927. He was the first Dean of Oberlin Theological Seminary from 1903 to 1923 and was President of Oberlin College from 1918 to 1919. Bosworth was also a member of the Advisory Board for the American Bureau of Personal and Vocational Psychology.
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F-0732-13683
- Title
- What He Lived By: Prayers of Edward Increase Bosworth
- Author
- Edward Increase Bosworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Association Press
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
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Flamingo Books
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Menifee, California
About Flamingo Books
Flamingo Books specializes in scarce and unusual nonfiction books and ephemera, with an emphasis on the natural sciences, religion, law, history and antiquarian titles.
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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...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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"...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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