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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good condition. No dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. NOT A LIBRARY DISCARD. NOTE: This is the 1938 First Printing of the First Edition. There is a presentation inscription to Margaret Beeson Lewis from her father and grandfather. The book includes a discussion of Mary Penington (1623-1682), an early Quaker, who was the mother-in-law of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and author of one of the earliest Quaker spiritual autobiographies. On pages 105-106, there are margin notes in pencil explaining how the Penn, Penington and Beeson families are related. Very Good condition. Corners are NOT bumped. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean but have much margin lining -- all in pencil. With endpaper art, and 16 interior illustrations by George Gillett Whitney. List of sources. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. The book's presentation is from Marvin Foster Beeson (1889-1975) who received his AB from Meridian College and his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1914. He was a professor of Educational Psychology at Colorado State Teachers College from 1917-1920 and associate professor of Educational Psychology & Education at William and Mary in 1928. Also presented by Margaret's grandfather John Wesley Beeson (1856-1966), who in 1886 established the Arcadia Female College in Arcadia, Louisiana. Later, he was the president of the Meridian Female College in Meridian, Miss. and Marengo Female College in Alabama. In December 1988, the board of trustees of Birmingham, Alabama's Samford University voted to name their new divinity school the Beeson School of Divinity in honor of Ralph Waldo Beeson and his late father, John Wesley Beeson. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Whitney, George Gillett. 8vo. (x), 299pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Whitney, George Gillett (ilustrador).…