first edition Hardcover
1884 · Ocean Grove, New Jersey
by STOKES, Rev. E.H.
Ocean Grove, New Jersey: Adam Wallace, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 216pp. Blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. Boards a bit scuffed, a little spotting on a few pages, a very good copy. Travel journal, with some poetry by a prominent Methodist cleric. Stokes was trained as a bookbinder, but started to preach at an early age. At his death in 1897, he was the President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was largely responsible for the building of the Ocean Grove Auditorium. *OCLC* locates less than a dozen copies. (Inventory #: 408899)