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THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD

Written by Charles Brown
Illustrated by A.A. Dixon
Published by The Religious Tract Society

THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD
Written by Charles Brown. Illustrated by A.A. Dixon.
Stock no. 1830706
Circa. 1923. Hardback. Good condition.

Being addresses to children on Bunyan's "Holy War". Red cloth pictorial boards with black titles. 4 colour plates including title page and frontispiece, 4 b/w plates. 130 pages. Spine browned, boards damp stained and browned. Text block lightly browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page browned. Lower corner tip removed from page 33/34. One or two minor marks to contents. A working copy.

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Front cover

Cover of THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD by Charles Brown

Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. THE FAMOUS TOWN OF MANSOUL
  • II. THE FIVE WONDERFUL GATES
  • III. THE CITADEL
  • IV. THE WICKED PRINCE AND HIS EXPEDITION
  • V. SORROW AT THE COURT OF KING SHADDAI
  • VI. THE FIRST BATTLE
  • VII. THE RIOT IN MANSOUL
  • VIII. THE COMING OF EMMANUEL
  • IX. THEMAN WHO WOULD NOT GIVE IN
  • X. A CURIOUS PROPOSAL AND THE LAST BATTLE
  • XI. THE DEFEAT OF DIABOLUS
  • XII. DESIRES AWAKE AND WET EYES
  • XIII. THE PARDON OF MANSOUL
  • XIV. EMMANUEL COMING TO LIVE IN MANSOUL
  • XV. EMMANUEL LEAVES MANSOUL
  • XVI. SORROWFUL DAYS IN MANSOUL
  • XVII. GOOD MR PRYWELL
  • XVIII. THE RETURN OF DIABOLUS TO MANSOUL
  • XIX. THE RASH SORTIE
  • XX. EMMANUEL'S RETURN TO MANSOUL
  • XXI. WHY THE DIABOLONIANS WERE NOT ALL KILLED