Through Jade Gate and Central Asia: An account of Journeys in Kansu, Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. by Mildred Cable - 1947

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1943. . 315 pages, fold out map at back, of Xinjiang (spelled Sinkiang) showing the names of many oases on the main trade route across the Gobi Desert. No photos, covers a little stained/foxed, past owners' details to flyleaf.. Ninth Edition. Cloth. Average.

Constable & Co., ltd., 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Constable & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. New popular edition. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Prize plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight backwards lean.

Hardcover.

Hardcover.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. Hardback, no dustjacket, third edition. Illustrated, large folding map, 301 pages. The green cloth binding has some wear and has faded a little.There is some edge foxing throughout with the first and last few pages more extensively affected.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1943. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean beige covers with blind decoration and black lettering on the lightly spotted spine, lightly spine-ends and corners, sound binding, previous owners' names in pencil on front end-papers. Clean pages. This edition does not contain illustrations but the tissue map in the pocket on the inside of the rear cover is clean and crisp. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60822081012. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 Book. Fair. Beige Cloth Boards. Sixth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Compelling account of a hazardous journey undertaken by three women missionaries across the largely untracked wastes of North-Western China and Central Asia. 318pp. Fold-out map to rear. Left hinge cracked, boards marked, edges browned, marks to a couple of margins and two former owners' names to front endpaper, otherwise fair reading copy. Map in very good condition and text good..

London England: Constable & Co, 1934. Hardback.Through Jade Gate. Browning to end inside covers. Sunned spine. Red cloth with black lettering. With an Introduction by Rev. John Stuart Holden. Contents: From Hwochow to Kanchow. In the Far North-West. Across the Gobi Desert. In the Land of the Reds. With a Frontispiece and Map. 304 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). New Popular Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo. Hardback.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937. Hard Cover. Owners name endpaper. Foxed. Very clean interior. No Jacket. .