Three Reasons, Why I Am A Baptist

Rev. J. M. (James Madison) Pendleton

Published by Moore, Anderson and Co, Cincinnati, 1853

About this Item

1853, an early printing, probably the first. Title page states 'Twelfth Thousand'. Hardcover, 12mo., original red cloth, gilt title. 171 pp. Good. Boards rubbed and worn; small pieces of cloth missing along spine; corners bumped and also with some loss to cloth. Old pencil doodles to endpapers; chipping to corners of endpapers; foxing throughout; dampstain visible to bottom margin of first 20 pages. Certainly a well handled copy, but a scarce early printing by one of the most important 19th-century Baptist preachers. OCLC locates 24 copies of this imprint.

Seller Inventory # 5781

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Reasons, Why I Am A Baptist
• Publisher: Moore, Anderson and Co, Cincinnati
• Publication Date: 1853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: early printing.
• Condition: Good
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