HICKOK, LAURENS — Humanity Immortal: Or Man Tried, Fallen, and Redeemed

New York, NY: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co, 1876. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have bumping, rubbing, edge wear and beginning fraying, along with biopredation (bug poop) , and some water spotting to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some tidemarking to the foredges of the text block. This copy includes a previous owner's ink name and date on the front endpaper. "He took his degree at Union College in 1820. Until 1836 he was occupied in active pastoral work, and was then appointed professor of theology at the Western Reserve College, Ohio, and later (1844–1852) at the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York. From this post he was elected vice-president of Union College and professor of mental and moral science. In 1866, he succeeded Dr. E. Nott as president, but in July 1868 retired to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to writing and study. A collected edition of his principal works was published at Boston in 1875. The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a collection of his papers." (from Wikipedia). Good .