Historical Sketches, Chiefly Relating to the Early Settlement of Friends at Falls, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
by B., G. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Bath, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John P. Murphy. Half leather, cloth worn, leather worn and peeled, worn gold title and stripes on spine, front cover and first few pages mostly detached. Collector bookplate lightly affixed inside front cover, inscription and library stamp on title page, pages lightly tanned, rest of text block binding tight. . Good-. Hardcover. 1882.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 086746
- Title
- Historical Sketches, Chiefly Relating to the Early Settlement of Friends at Falls, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Author
- B., G. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John P. Murphy
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- SETTLEMENT; BUCKS COUNTY; PENNSYLVANIA; PA; QUAKERS; QUAKERISM; HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL
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About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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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- 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....
- Spine
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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