Sam jones and sam small (4 risultati)

189, [1] pages plus front cover, missing rear cover. Staple-bound paperback: H 18cm x L 12.25cm. Detached front cover soiled and stained with large chips to top corners and slender chips at bottom corners; jagged 1.5cm paper loss at spine head with 3.25cm loss at heel and further slender loss along rear joint; missing rear cover with concluding page 189/verso detached. Toning to edges and at interior margins; scattered stains to interior pages as well. OCLC cites full pagination as 189 so book is complete. Verso of page 189 is advertisement for another book published by J.S. Ogilvie & Company. Binding staples remain firm. A poor but textually complete copy. Methodist evangelist Samuel Porter Jones (1847-1906) earned renown for his humor and story-telling and is credited as a primary influence on Will Rogers. Samuel White Small (1851-1931) was also a Methodist evangelist and prohibitionist. Also included is a four page pamphlet THE LAST SERMON PREACHED BY "SAM" JONES. Los Angeles, CA: Free Tract Society, Inc. [no date]. H 12.75cm x L 8.75cm. Sheets toned with a few nicks at edges.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

7.5 x 5", gilt-dec blue cloth, 127pp + ad, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, spine sunned and dull, hinges loose, couple spots on foredge of textblock, pp toned; still a decent, readable copy. Noted 19th Century Prohibitionists. Jones once converted Thomas Green Ryman, and together they built the Union Gospel Tabernacle in Nashville, later named the Ryman Auditorium.…