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The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come
by Bunyan, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Clearwater, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 475 pages. Highly decorated front cover and spine with engravings of leaves and a bird as well as gilt printing of the title. Back cover also engraved but only on the edges. Blue end papers. Illustrated with black and white drawings. First three pages loose. Otherwise binding is tight and the book is in good shape. Pages yellowed. Illustration on frontispiece protected by vellum.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World, To That Which Is To Come, written by writer and preacher John Bunyan while in prison, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature. In the Christian allegory, the characters function as embodiments of the moral qualities in their names: Christian, Christiana, Great-heart, and Hopeful, to name a few.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kukuchai Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000017
- Title
- The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come
- Author
- Bunyan, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION CLASSICS RELIGION PILGRIMS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectible-Rare-Vintage;
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About the Seller
Kukuchai Books
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Clearwater, British Columbia
About Kukuchai Books
Kukuchai Books has been selling books on-line since December 2004. It has been both an adventure and a pleasure to send my books half-way around the world in every direction. An adventure because my books have traveled farther than I ever will. Through their travels I have imagined flying to Japan or Australia or boarding a ship for South Africa. And a pleasure when I receive an e-mail thanking me for a book remembered from childhood or a replacement for a very precious, lost book.Kukuchai Books will continue to provide books for your reading and collecting enjoyment. I specialize in Literature, Collectible, Vintage, and hard-to-find volumes.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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