Boddy (Alexander A.) With Russian Pilgrims.
£75
Being an account of a sojourn in the White Sea Monastery and a journey by the old trade route from the Arctic Sea to Moscow
London, Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1893.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A lovely copy of this book by one of the founders of Pentecostalism in Britain.
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Prize plate to front pastedown; overall an excellent copy.
Frontispiece, plates, maps and illustrations.
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First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in blind to upper cover and gilt to spine.
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First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt.
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London, William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
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London, Ward & Downey, 1888.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth.
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London, John Murray, 1937.
First UK edition, second enlarged edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s 5d.
Scarce in the dust-jacket. This 'second edition' builds considerably upon the Baghdad edition of 1932, including the addition of ten sketches.