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Orientals in American Life.
by PALMER, ALbert W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Friendship Press,, 1934. First edition, first printing, scarce presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. M. C. Gile. With the writer's gratitude and good wishes - Albert W. Palmer. May 15, 1934". Albert Wentworth Palmer (1879-1954) was a Christian minister and the president of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Between the wars, he travelled extensively in Japan and, after Pearl Harbor, emerged as a vocal opponent of internment. Here, he calls for American openness towards people from East and South-east Asia and an end to policies of economic and racial discrimination. Palmer is also remembered for The Mountain Trail and Its Message (1911), in which he recounts time spent hiking with John Muir and the Sierra Club. The recipient, Josephine Ellen Richards (1855-1938) was an educator and evangelical. In 1886, she married Moses Clement Gile (1858-1916), a professor of classical languages at Colorado College. In 1900, she founded a departmental Greek and Latin library at the college through a gift of 300 books. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Cloth clean, top edge dusty, nick to head of couple of leaves; unclipped jacket sunned and rubbed: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172708
- Title
- Orientals in American Life.
- Author
- PALMER, ALbert W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Friendship Press,
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
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