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Lattermath: Hymns and Verses Translated and Original
by Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good Plus
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About This Item
Utica, NY: William W. Smith, 1895 This is an unnumbered Limited Edition of 200 copies "Printed at the Courier Press, of Clinton, New York, 1895." (colophon) Hard cover, demy 8vo (measuring 5 1/4 x 8 inches), in green cloth with banded gilding to boards and titles to upper left, and on the spine, 101 pp. Ex-Bowdoin College Library, with their withdrawal sticker. Inscribed presentation copy to same " from the Author" upon ffep. Library embossed stamp to title page. Printed on laid paper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very minor shelfwear at head and foot of spine, light toning. Very clean. Vintage hand inked library sticker to front board. The Author, Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, (1851-1829) was a graduate, and later 9th President, of New York's Hamilton College from 1893 to 1917. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he composed and published a number of volumes of verse and hymns. Much of his verses refer to the life of learning. OCLC 3181989. . Inscribed to the Library at Bowoin College, "from the Author". Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.
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- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8796
- Title
- Lattermath: Hymns and Verses Translated and Original
- Author
- Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- William W. Smith
- Place of Publication
- Utica, NY
- Date Published
- 1895
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