Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank. 2 vols bound in one. 436 pages. Worn leather covers, back hinge cracked and almost completely detached. Front cover was detached but then hand sewn back on. Pages yellowed and moderately foxed. Mouse chewed large portion of first few pages and then less of the next 30 or so pages--affects text on title page and bottom edge of introduction. Does not affect text of Woolman's actual works. Date of 1774 is assumed based on the partial words of the city and printer, which suggest Joseph (Crukshank) in Phila(delphia), which would then be in 1774 and a first edition. Smith II:961 . Poor. Full Leather. First edition. 1774.

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Bookseller: Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 036899
Title: Works of John Woolman. In Two Parts. The First Edition.
Author: Woolman, John
Format/Binding: Full Leather
Book Condition: Used - Poor
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
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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