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HARD TIMES. For These Times

HARD TIMES. For These Times by Dickens, Charles

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Seller: Sumner & Stillman
Title
HARD TIMES. For These Times
Author
Dickens, Charles
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1854. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. First Edition of Dickens's novel sited in the grimy manufacturing city of Coketown; it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. School superintendent Thomas Gradgrind tries hard to repress the children's imagination in favor of Facts: "Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts"; his own two sons are named Adam Smith and Malthus. In HARD TIMES Dickens was satirizing this utilitarian philosophy, and also publicizing the terrible working conditions of the industrial poor. HARD TIMES was not issued in monthly parts, but rather appeared serially in twenty weekly numbers of Dickens's "Household Words" during 1854 (Dickens wanted to give his periodical a boost, and it worked); it is one of only two Dickens novels that first appeared in book form unillustrated -- the other being GREAT EXPECTATIONS. This copy is in the first of the four binding states, in horizontally-ribbed olive-green moiré cloth with "Price 5/-" at the foot of the spine. This is a near-fine copy, with scarcely any wear to the cloth, and with the spine gilt still bright; the original pale-yellow endpapers are clean and intact. The one flaw (other than the unavoidable browning of the spine) is a glass-ring on the rear cover. Smith I pp 85-88; Carter MBV pp 7-8. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with leather labels.
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention Made At Chicago, Illinois October 25th to 30th, 1905

Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention Made At Chicago, Illinois October 25th to 30th, 1905

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Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention Made At Chicago, Illinois October 25th to 30th, 1905
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
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Louisville, KY: Dispatch Printing Company, 1905. Very good. 8¼" x 5½". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 28. Very good: two tiny puncture holes from being held with other pamphlets; wrappers lightly worn and moderately dust soiled; faint vertical crease. The National Baptist Convention (NBC) was formally organized in 1895. It brought together the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention (founded 1880), the National Baptist Convention of America (1886) and the National Baptist Education Convention (1893). According to its website, it is presently the largest Black Baptist convention. This is the 1905 annual report of the NBC's Foreign Mission Board (FMB). The book has a discussion of the FMB's struggles in South Africa and several other dispatches from missionaries including a more positive report from Liberia. It has a breakdown of financial contributions by state as well as an accounting of how those funds were used. The book is also illustrated with five photographic images and two charts including group shots of missionaries and parishioners in Barbados and their mission house in Chiradzulu. While not marked as such, this copy was owned by the Rev. F.B. North who was pastor of the St. John church in Austin and a trustee of the St. John Regular Missionary Baptist Association of Texas' missionary department. OCLC locates eight institutions with annual reports for the NBC's Foreign Mission Board but no copies of this particular year.
The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, Compleat; Or, The Republican Unmask'd ...

The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, Compleat; Or, The Republican Unmask'd ... by Ward, Edward, attrib

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The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, Compleat; Or, The Republican Unmask'd ...
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Ward, Edward, attrib
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: B. Bragge, 1707. Hardcover. Very good. Sixth edition. (ii),i-x,11-104;(iv);55pp. Engraved frontispiece of a Description of the Calves-Head Club. Contemporary full leather in a Cambridge-style binding tooled on the boards in panels. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands. Black leather lettering label, gilt. Old, neat hinge repairs, light wear to corners and spine tips, some old marginal notes, else a very good copy. Also includes 'A Vindication of the Royal Martyr, King Charles I' by Samuel Butler, and 'The True Presbyterian Without Disguise' by Sir John Denham, Knight. ETSC T2721. The Calves Head Club was formed in derision of the memory of King Charles I. It fell out of favor after the Restoration. ESTC T2721.

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