The City: Its Sins and Sorrows. Being a series of sermons from Luke XIX. 41. and Ragged Schools
by GUTHRIE, Thomas
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1873. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers; 264pp. Light shelf wear, small loss of cloth mid-spine edge of upper cover, else Very Good or better. Scottish Presbyterian sermons by the founder of the Ragged School system, which provided free education for destitute children.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45093
- Title
- The City: Its Sins and Sorrows. Being a series of sermons from Luke XIX. 41. and Ragged Schools
- Author
- GUTHRIE, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert Carter & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Scotland Scottish Presbyterianism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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