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Caste or Christ? Sketches of Indian Life [by the "Regions Beyond" Missionaries of Behar]
by John Z. Hodge and George E. Hicks; preface by Dr. Harry Guinness; photographs by Alexander L. Banks
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Morgan & Scott / Regions Beyond Missionary Union, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 127 pages, decorated green cloth, gilt titles, b&w photographs, two maps; preivious owner's signature penned on free endpaper. A good +, clean, hardcover overall with moderate shelf wear, light general soiling to green cloth, the start of fraying at the corners and at ends of backstrip, front hinge cracked but not broken and binding is solid, paper cream white, with foxing to the endpapers and fore-edges.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10725
- Title
- Caste or Christ? Sketches of Indian Life [by the "Regions Beyond" Missionaries of Behar]
- Author
- John Z. Hodge and George E. Hicks; preface by Dr. Harry Guinness; photographs by Alexander L. Banks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Morgan & Scott / Regions Beyond Missionary Union
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Early Twentieth Century; Religion; Christianity; Missionaries; India
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Hinge
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
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