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The Advancing Kingdom; or, The Wonders of Foretold History
by Tower, F. E
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1890. Published 1890. Fair to good condition. Hard-to-find volume concerning religion and prophecy, covering such topics as eclipses, earthquakes and other natural disasters as heavenly signs. Describes America's greatest problems in the future as Romanism and Socialism. Includes fifteen of sixteen rather dramatic and luridly colored chromolithographed plates, the frontis absent, double-page map at rear. Golden tan cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt and black, 534 pages plus map. Some cover wear and soil, mainly rubbing to the edges with some fraying to the lower spine end, surface of rear joint cloth split partway up, small dark. Hinges internally reglued and secure, text block sound, pages clean with two pages having a few short underlines and a note, tiny dampstain at lower outer corner of several pages near the middle of the book, not affecting the printed areas. . Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040872
- Title
- The Advancing Kingdom; or, The Wonders of Foretold History
- Author
- Tower, F. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- PROPHECY RELIGION NATURAL DISASTERS EARTHQUAKES ECLIPSES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy, Theology, Religion, Spirituality;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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