The Gospel According to Thomas: Coptic Text Established and Translated Tapa dura - 1978

New York: Island Books, February 1998. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Very Good. Island Books, 1998, Mass Market, Very Good Condition. A book with minimal wear, with no tears present. All covers and pages are present and intact with no marks, except for previous owner's name.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Good+. Octavo, pp xiv, 275. Frontispiece portrait of a bison hunt, 16 pages of publisher's ads. Bound in publisher's tan cloth, beveled boards, with blind cover decoration and gold spine titles, small adhesion on back cover. Pages toned with occassionbal foxing. Binding tight, slighly cocked. Overall, a very nice copy and one of the best in its condition. Captain Frederick Trench Townsend (1838-1924) was a British Army officer in the 2nd Life Guards. He was hunter and traveler who came to North America to hunt for 10 months in the late 1860s. Townsend journeyed more than 10,000 miles across America, not counted his sea voyage from England. He landed in New York, went to Rhode Island, and then hunted deer and wolf in the Adirondacks. He shot wild fowl on the Nebraska plains and re-armed for the west in Omaha. On the northern plains he shot buffalo, antelope, and black-tailed deer. In the Rocky Mountains Townshend hunted big-horn… Leer más