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The Book Stall, New York, 1919.  Hard cover, 99 pages.  Blue cloth with gilt lettering on front, gilt lettering on spine faded.  Front and rear boards are blind ruled, have some spots and rubs, corners and spine ends bumped and worn.  Binding sound with head and tail bands; binding cracked at front and rear with all pages secure.  ‘From – T. Baird, May 1923’ inked on front paste down.  Interior clean and unmarked with age-toned pages.  Illustrated with black & white photos.  ‘This book is expressly written to meet the requirements of the members who compose our Missionary Study classes in the United States and the Dominion of Canada.  It contains a mere skeleton record of the history of the commencement and the development of Missionary enterprise as conducted by the Assemblies of Christians vulgarly known in religious circles as Plymouth Brethren.  We most emphatically repudiate the name; we merely mention it by way of recognition.  Elsewhere in this volume we print a testimony … as to the influence of the so called Plymouth Brethren on the religious life and literature of the age.’ (from Author’s Explanation)