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BISHOP JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE. HIS LIFE AND WORK
by London, Lawrence Foushee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 140 pages, plus frontispiece and one double-sided plate. Original maroon cloth. [21.8 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing to plates, facing pages, and endpapers. Some wear and rubbing to jacket with minor loss at ends of spine panel; small internal repair on verso; light soiling evident on rear panel. FIRST EDITION. "Joseph Blount Cheshire, for nearly forty years Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was known and loved throughout the state as a man of great personal charm, good sense, and the ability to get things done. Beyond his ecclesiastical career, he was lawyer and a writer, who made many contributions to the formal history of the state as well as to the church. This book is an account of his life with particular emphasis on his life in the church." --Books from Chapel Hill, pp. 159-160.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000349
- Title
- BISHOP JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE. HIS LIFE AND WORK
- Author
- London, Lawrence Foushee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- religion the south episcopal
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; NORTH CAROLINA; RELIGIOUS HISTORY;
Terms of Sale
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Durham, North Carolina
About Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
An online shop focusing on Americana, particularly books pertaining to the South, and offering rare, scholarly, and antique books on a variety of other subjects. Proprietor David J. Eilenberger worked for over five years at respected firms in the A.B.A.A. before establishing the company in 2010. In addition to books, we are interested in acquiring broadsides, ephemera, 19th-century photographs, and manuscripts. Member Independent Online Booksellers Association since 2017.
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