This Believing World: a Simple Account of the Great Religions of Mankind
by Browne, Lewis
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- Hardcover
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- Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company. Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. Sixth printing. Black cloth boards, gilt decoration and title, clean and bright. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright, general mild dust soiling and shelf wear. . Book is firm in binding, B&w illustratons throughout by Author, crisp interior. Map illustrated endpapers. The author also wrote a history of the Jews, 'Stranger Than Fiction', and was rabbi of the Temple Israel in Waterbury, CT. A tight, crisp copy. 347 pp. Including index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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- Title
- This Believing World: a Simple Account of the Great Religions of Mankind
- Author
- Browne, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Religions - History. Stranger Than Fiction. H.G. Wells.
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- Good+
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- Tight
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- Shelf Wear
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