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St John Chrysostom: The Voice of Gold
by Attwater, Donald
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 202 pages. Hardcover in blue cloth with title in gilt on front cover. Rubbing and wear to the binding, which is toned at edges, damping at top edge of front cover. Spine is toned and has white library lettering. Top edge of text block is blue. Prior owner's name ink stamped on front flyleaf. A white name label in on the front flyleaf but has had the information crossed out. Text is toned. Some underlining in text. Contains few illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051816
- Title
- St John Chrysostom: The Voice of Gold
- Author
- Attwater, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Bruce Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Milwaukee
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1939; Donald Attwater; St John Chrysostom; Saint; Christianity; History; Early Church Fathers.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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