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A Man Called Peter; The Story of Peter Marshall
by Catherine Marshall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1951 McGraw-Hill Book Company , New York. 1951. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on front and rear endpapers. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and board edges; light bumping to head, tail, and one lower tip. DJ: Good; wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders. Brick red boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 342 pp 8vo. This is the story of the great modern minister through the eyes of his wife Catherine. She tells the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who became one of the most widely acclaimed Protestant ministers in the USA and eventually rose to be the Chaplain of the United States Senate. This book includes six complete sermons, six prayers, and excerpts from other sermons and prayers. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015311
- Title
- A Man Called Peter; The Story of Peter Marshall
- Author
- Catherine Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- religion, Protestant religion, Peter Marshall, Catherine Marshall, Chaplain of the US. Senate, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Senate Chaplain, Covington Georgia, Atlanta Georgia,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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