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Stringer & Townsend, 1854-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Green cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt shows minor to moderate wear, tear, rubbing, and bumped corners, soiling, joints starting, case partially detached at the rear hinge. Minor writing on the front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

Stringer & Townsend, 1854. Stringer & Townsend, 1854, FIrst Edition, 8vo, 304 pages, Book bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket, frontis with additional illustrations, all edges gilt. Edgewear with some loss of cloth at spine ends, notes on front endpages, else book in good- condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stringer & Townsend. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. New York, 1854; brown cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; titles and decoration on spine badly faded; covers rubbed and worn; ends of spine chipped off; corner tips exposed; frontispiece missing, photocopy of it is laid in book; name in pencil on rear pate down; end papers soiled; interior unmarked but has staining, smudges, foxing throughout; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 304 pages.

Stringer & Townsend. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. New York, 1854; brown cloth covered boards with gold embossed illustration on front board and spine; blind embossed decoration on front and rear boards; covers soiled; spine ends chipped off; a little tearing in cloth on front external hinge; corner tips exposed; tight binding; interior has light foxing, staining through; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 304 pages.

Stringer & Townsend, 1854. later tape to spine which is rough, cloth covers have wear, heavy foxing, gold emblem. Brown Cloth/black taped Spine. Good/None. Illus. by Engraved Frontis. Small 8vo-7.75 x 5".

Stringer & Townsend, 1854. Hardcover. Good. Good Solid Copy! Appears to have no marks or writings, has numerous light stains and foxing throughout, little age toning, binding tight and sound. Small chip to both spine ends, moderate wear to spine ends and corners, moderate shelf wear. 304 pp Carefully packaged and shipped in box. M1

Nabu Press, 2011-09-26. Paperback. Good.

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 304 pp, illustrated. Light foxing throughout, mostly confined to the margins. Original brown cloth binding with image of the Mission House stamped in gilt on the front board. Corners and spine ends rubbed, small losses to spine cloth.

Paperback / softback. New.

Stringer & Townsend. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles & designs. spotting and 3dge/corner wear but clean. Foxing scattered throughout, threads showing front and rear but boards are attached. Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS, ERGODOBOOKS, MORE BOOKS, IRISH BOOKSELLERS, PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS, BOOKSPLEASE, RIA CHRISTIE, DISCOVER BOOKS, BOOKS2ANYWHERE, BOOKS EXPRESS, CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own.... they buy honest booksellers' books, upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners! .

NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 304. Illustrated with several lengravings. Bound in drab green cloth, blind-stamped, with a picture in gilt. Cover and spine somewhat worn, but o/w a good tight copy. Accounts of missionary work in a New York slum.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Firts ediiton. Small 8vo in blindstamped brown cloth with front board gilt illustration of the Mission House, spine ornately titled in gilt. One page publisher's ads at front, 304 pp. Frontis engraving "The New Mission House At The Five Points" and five additional full page engravings in the text. A tight example, front gilt bright but spine strip well sunned, jagged nick to the head of the spine; scattered light foxing; the rear free endpaper and last three leaves have a small margin chip not affecting the text. New York City's "Five Points" district (approximately where the western boundary of Chinatown in lower Manhattan is today), was the most notoriously unlawful and dangerous neighborhood in the city and The Old Brewery, (which was built in 1792 but became a rookery after the Panic of 1837) the most vile and dangerous "residence" within it. At the time this book was written, New… Read More

NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. Small 8vo, pp. 304. Illustrated with several lengravings. Brown cloth, blind-stamped, with a picture in gilt. Cover somewhat worn, but o/w a VG tight copy. Accounts of missionary work in a New York slum.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a notorious tenement and headquarters for gangs (cf. Scorsese); the Methodist mission erected a new building on the site in 1850 and began their work in the area to provide jobs, schooling, and medical care in addition to their preaching. This account, from several women who give only their initials, includes the expected tales of conversion--but also provides some glimpse of the lives of urban poor blacks and Irish immigrants, including a disapproving account of an Irish wake: "I succeeded at last, much to my joy, in breaking up… Read More

1854. LADIES OF THE MISSION. The Old Brewery and the New Mission House at the Five Points By Ladies of the Mission. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. 1st ed. 304pp. Frontis., plates, advertisement. Orig. pictorial blindstamped cloth. Spine lightly faded, minor foxing, else very good. An interesting collection of short accounts of the mission work performed by the ladies at Five Points in New York City during the 1850s. They aimed to raise funds through the sale of this book to help aid their cause of helping the surrounding neighborhoods.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. hardcover. very good. Wood engravings. 304 pages. 12mo, gilt decorated blind-stamped burgundy cloth, spine ends strengthened, some markings on inside front cover. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/>

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. (2)pp. ad, frontispiece, iv,, 304pp., illustrated. The author writes about the people living five points, their health and welfare, their children and death.bound in publisher's green pictorial gilt and embossed cloth depicting the old brewery, yellow endpapers, previous owners names, ocassional spots of foxing, a very good copy.

Stringer & Townsend. Publishers embossed brown boards with gilt titles and design. light foxing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1854.

Stringer & Townsend. Publishers embossed green boards with gilt titles and design. Wear to head and foot of spine ad to the extremities corners bumped to the board. light foxing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1854.