Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank. Front cover detached, both covers worn with leather and layers of board chipping off, back hinge cracked, old library sticker on spie, spine leather rubbed and beginning to crack, ends chipped. Meeting library plate and presentation inscription from 1871 inside front cover, missing front end papers, name decoratively drawn in in old hand on back free end paper, pages browned and moderately foxed, text block tight [Covers poor, interior near good.] Smith II:961 . Fair. Full Leather. 1774.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 034434
Title: Works of John Woolman. In Two Parts (bound in one volume)
Author: Woolman, John
Format/Binding: Full Leather
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Joseph Crukshank
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date Published: 1774
Keywords: QUAKERISM; WOOLMAN; CHRISTIANITY; SCRIPTURE; LETTERS; BIOGRAPHICAL; RELIGION; QUAKER

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We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.

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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....
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...
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...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...