David Swing, Poet-preacher de Joseph Fort Newton (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Publisher's original green cloth with gilt spine and upper panel lettering within blind rule, quarto, pp. 273. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edges uncut. Many pages unopened. Tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Swing, with some offsetting to title page despite the tissue. Three other full page illustrations, as called for. Previous owner, using perhaps a dull implement or unsteady hand, caused a small half-moon shaped loss of paper at top of Title page when separating it from Dedication page. That tab of paper missing from Title page remains attached at top edge of Dedication page. Shelf wear at spine ends and board tips. Front hinge weak. About Good condition, withal. Printed at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Chicago: The Unity Publishing Co., 1909. Bound in green buckram, with gold-gilt lettering, in plain green wrapper; light foxing to end-papers; tissue protected black & white frontispiece of subject; 273pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

Chicago: The Unity Publishing Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. Printed at the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; fragments from the dj laid in; owner name and date on endpaper. .

Chicago: Unity Publishing, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. portraits. 8vo, 273 pages, uncut and unopened, green cloth, corner bumped, inked name. Swing might be called the Henry Ward Beecher of Chicago. He was a powerful pulpit orator, but his theology got him into trouble. He was tried for heresy by the Chicago Presbytery -but without conviction. Members of his flock pledged $50,000 to reinstate him in 1875 if he would organize the Central Church. Portaits. Printed at the Torch Press.

Chicago:The Unity Publishing Co., 1909. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Very Good. Chicago:The Unity Publishing Co. 1909. 273pp. 1st edition. In fine condition. Book does not seem to have ever been read as pages largely uncut. Dust jacket in near fine condition with just a touch of shelfwear. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Unity Pub. Co. , Abraham Lincoln Centre. Good. 1909. Hardcover. PRESENTATION copy : To the lost tribes of the Swing family, residing in Washinton, DC with the regards of the Swings in Oberlin, Ohio. From Albert Temple Swing, Christmas, 1903." ALS from A.T. Swing, May 25, 1909. Extra goodies laid in, incl. printed memorial to ATS 1849-1925. Soiled, foxed, worn, bumped. Spine has horizontal split at bottom, cracked but holding.; 273 pages .