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Highways to Heaven (Also published under the title Christ's Object Lessons)
by WHITE, Ellen G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. A collection of parables, many borrowed from the Bible, to emphasize and expound upon key Christian tenets. With illustrations in black & white throughout, and a few in color, including frontis image of a father welcoming a wayward son back home. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling and rules in gilt on cover and spine dark green blocks. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A Fair-only copy, with soiling to cloth and general rippling to leaves due to exposure to dampness; otherwise a sturdy, tightly-bound copy. A sticker to front paste-down explains that this work is a gift from the Christian group known as "Your Neighbors."; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 384 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84643
- Title
- Highways to Heaven (Also published under the title Christ's Object Lessons)
- Author
- WHITE, Ellen G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Review and Herald Publishing Association
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Religion and Spirituality;
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Littleton, Colorado
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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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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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