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Zonya; Daughter of Abraham; The Story of Her Quest for Light
by Agnes Scott Kent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Toronto, Canada: Evangelical Publishers, 1938 Evangelical Publishers, Toronto, Canada, 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges; light toning to endpapers and textblock fore edge. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($1.50); chipping and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; archival tape repairs to flap folds; shelfwear to top edges. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 315 pp 12mo. This story begins in Russia during the Jewish pogrom where Zonya, a Jewess, is marked for extermination. She escapes, comes to America where her trials and tribulations begin; the quest of her restless heart for some certainty of her faith, her excursions into the maze of various cults and isms before becoming ensnared in Atheism. As she struggles, she sees the light of Him Who is the light that lightest every man and reaches the Christian faith. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015689
- Title
- Zonya; Daughter of Abraham; The Story of Her Quest for Light
- Author
- Agnes Scott Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Evangelical Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Canada
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Russia, Christianity, pogrom, Russian Jewish pogrom, extermination, Stalin, Jewess, Judaism, Atheism, cults,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Fore Edge
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
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