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Picketing Hell: A Fictitious Narrative
by Adam Clayton Powell, Sr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1942. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. SIGNED BY ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, SR. on the frontispiece below his portrait. A solid copy to boot of the 1942 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a bright, VG- example of the fragile pictorial dustjacket, with chipping at the spine ends and very light creasing and chipping --with several small closed tears-- along the panel edges. Octavo, this book represents "a sincere effort to reform the church" by Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the legendary pastor of Abyssian Baptist Church (1908-1937) and the father of firebrand New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (the first African-American elected to Congress from New York).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18013
- Title
- Picketing Hell: A Fictitious Narrative
- Author
- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wendell Malliet and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- rare African-American literature, rare church reform, New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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