The Problem Of Pain (The Christian Challenge Series)

Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, London, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Preface by author. Black coloured cloth covered boards with white coloured insert to the back strip with black coloured titles. Plaintext dustwrapper with dark red and white coloured titles to the front panel and dark red coloured titles to the backstrip. In which the author argues that despite human and animal pain, this is not sufficient reason to believe that there is not a merciful God. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing and bumping of the book corners. Flecking of the back strip edges, bottom worse than top; lower right-hand corner of the rear panel and a little to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. Light tanning and foxing of the text block edges and light tanning of the pages. Offset tanning and foxing of the end pages; with, original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. The odd foxing spot to the pages. The dustwrapper is not in great shape – please see photograph Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the top back strip edge with the last three quarters of an inch of the back strip missing. From that missing area of the back strip there is an extension of the tear along the lower edge of 2 inches and a arcing tear of 3 inches to the body of the rear panel. There is a 3 inch tear to the lower left-hand corner of the rear panel. Creasing and some small tears to the dustwrapper edge. Rubbing, marking and foxing of the dustwrapper panels. Sunning of the back strip and of the rear panel. A little foxing of the fold over panels and to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - IX ,[1], 148, [2] pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 0286214. .