Observations on the Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends
by Gurney, Joseph John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bath, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Mahlon Day. Scuffed, edge worn leather covers, hinges beginning to crack on front, bottom of spine chipped, top section of leather over spine missing. Owner bookplate, browned marbled end papers and page edges, page edges and first and last few pages foxed, section of pages browned in middle, text block binding tight, good. First American edition from the seventh London edition. Other edition: Smith I:882-3 . Good. Full Leather. 1st American. 1840.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038306
- Title
- Observations on the Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends
- Author
- Gurney, Joseph John
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mahlon Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1840
- Keywords
- QUAKERISM; TESTIMONIES; DOCTRINE; RELIGION; QUAKER
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
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About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
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.
Glossary
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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....
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.