Miracles in Black: Missionary Experiences in the Wilds of Africa

  • New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1938]
By WENGATZ, John C.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1938]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original buckram in black photographically illustrated dust jacket; 177pp.; frontispiece, 3 photographic plates. Jacket extremities a bit worn with shallow chips and short closed tears; verso dampstained with bleeding to bottom edge of front flap and rear panel and flap; cloth slightly bubbled from damp; nevertheless, a Very Good, presentable copy. "Missionary Adventures in the Wilds of Africa" - upper jacket panel. "The mind of the African is simple and childlike...Consequently, the Gospel and Light are all that is needed to correct it" - p. 9. Includes the author's memoirs as a missionary in Angola.

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