Along the Way: An Autobiography
by BRADLEY, Preston
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: David McKay Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, dust jacket. vii, 280pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition, boldly signed and inscribed ("With best wishes!") by Bradley in blue fountain pen on the half-title page. Bradley (1888-1983) was a well-known Chicago personality, author and speaker, for many years pastor of the People's Church. Unusual copy: Below Bradley's signature is another inscription in blue ballpoint: "Clarence P. Schwarz / Grand Master of / Masons in Illinois." Schwarz was a noted Chicago masonic figure (a lodge there is named in his honor), Past Master of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons in 1940 and Most Worshipful Past Grand Master in 1963-64.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22442
- Title
- Along the Way: An Autobiography
- Author
- BRADLEY, Preston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Chicago; Religion;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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