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The Call Of China's Great North-West or Kansu and Beyond
by Taylor, Howard (Mrs)
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The China Island Mission. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1926. Softcover. A 25mm tear at tail of spine. Some rubbing to covers. No signatures. ; 1926 second edition of a title first published in 1923. viii, 215, [1 (blank) pages + frontispiece + 13 illustrations on 11 plate leaves. No map in this edition. Blue card covers with black lettering on spine and front cover. Page dimensions: 184mm x 123mm. "It was barely six weeks before the terrible earthquake, when, little realising what was about to happen, we set out from the capital of Shensi in North China to visit the very region to be most devastated by the calamity." - page 1. Contents: Leaving the Plains; Sundays by the Way; Sundays by the Way (continued); Lanchow at last; Orient and Occident; The Earthquake; A Battlefield of Humanty; Far-off Langchow; Beyond; Children of the Mountains; "Western Peace"; The Great "Butter Festival"; A "Living Buddha"; The Salars of the Tibetan Borderland; Sons of Ishmael; "If It Were Not . . ."; With the Dawn; Appendices - A. The Immured Monks of Tibet; B. What is a "Living Buddha""; C. A "Living Buddha" at Home; D. The Mystic Phrase, "Om Mani Padmi Hum". .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25732
- Title
- The Call Of China's Great North-West or Kansu and Beyond
- Author
- Taylor, Howard (Mrs)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The China Island Mission
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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