The Lost Word: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago
de Van Dyke, Henry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good - Fine/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 Book. Illus. by Corwin Knapp Linson. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (12) 71 pp, tissue protected frontis, I. The Poverty of Hermas; II. A Christmas Loss; III. Parting, But No Farewell; IV. Love in Search of a Word; V. Riches Without Rest; VI. Great Fear and Recovered Joy with four tissue-protected photogravures from the original drawings by Corwin Knapp Linson and cover art by Amy Richards. First Edition, 1898. "Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896)." Lightly bumped bottom fore-edge corners with only the slightest wear, age-toned spine, and a smudge on half title, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Decorative green boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, and gilt top text block edge..
Sinopsis
BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends , Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat , Agent Zigzag , The Napoleon of Crime , and Forgotten Fatherland , among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of the wartime espionage trilogy.
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Detalles
- Librería
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001915
- Título
- The Lost Word: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago
- Autor
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Ilustrador
- Corwin Knapp Linson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1898
- Palabras clave
- LITERATUERE CHRISTMAS STORIES VAN DYKE HENRY (1852-1933) COVER ART RICHARDS AMY 19TH CENTURY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 8vo
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Sobre West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Marginalia
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- 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...
- Text Block
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- First Edition
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