London. Charles H. Kelly, c 1906. Black & white portrait frontispiece, first gathering loose. Blue cloth covered boards lettered and stamped in gilt. Prize label on the front free endpaper dated 1906. 128pp, age toned finals. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165817. More
Philadelphia. China Inland Mission. 1950. 208pp, endpapers a little discoloured, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, reverse of chipped dustjacket mended on reverse by prior owner, good hardback copy. 19 x 13cm. "This is a storybook - but with a difference. It is a story about a Chinese girl in..... More
Harvard. Harvard East Asian Monographs. 1972. xviii + 283pp, bibliography, index, very good in original wrappers. 28 x 21.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166573. More
London. The China Inland Mission/The Religious Tract Society, 1926. A coloured foldout with 2 maps showing the stations of the C.M.S. and B.C.M.S. West China Diocese together with a Sketch map of China showing position of the Province of Szechwan. Frontispiece photographic portrait, and 18 plates, including portraits and a...... More
Maryknoll. Orbis. 1997. Maps, xviii + 350pp, index, appendix, light foxing edged and paperback covers, small mark on front free endpaper, a good copy. "The book traces the influences of premillennial eschatology, the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, the rise of independent missions and conservative denominational boards, the role of World War II..... More
London. The Sunday School Union. (nd. c 1904.). Fourth Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page engravings. Attractive red cloth covered pictorial boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, endpapers browned and with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1904. A handsome copy. 144pp..... More
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1927. 181pp, few occasional spots, spine little faded, very good in original cloth. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166316. More
London. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1924. Second Edition. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 23 photographic plates throughout the text. Bright yellow cloth covered boards, stamped with a Chinese Snake Catcher device on front board, slight sunning to the spine, some spotting to fore-edge, and endpapers, but a very..... More
Chicago. Henry Regnery Company. 1953. Black and white illustrations, 228pp, inscription front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in worn protected dustjacket with some closed tears. The son of a Methodist missinary who arrived in China in 1894 and worked some 50 years in Fukien Province. A useful biographical resouce..... More
USA: Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod. 1 black and white map and a photographic frontispiece with portraits of the board of foreign missions of the Augustana synod, and numerous photographic illustrations throughout. 224pp. Green pictorial cloth covered boards lettered in gilt. The author's name has been handwritten..... More
London. Epworth. 1966. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 149pp, bibliography, illustration laid down page 105, one neat annotation in ink, dustjacket a little browned with slightly faded spine, rubbing along extremities, endpapers and fore edge browned, good hardback copy. 21 x 13.5cm. "Rhoda Watkins, a quiet, young Australian..... More
Paris. Les Belles Lettres. 1980. 44pp (pp 185-229), a clean copy in little marked and damp-damaged wrappers. La Chine au Temps des Lumières IV actes du IIe Colloque international de sinologie, 16-18 septembre 1977. Text in French, with one paragraph on the first page in English. Contains one article entitled..... More
Pasadena. William Carey International University Press. 2002. xvi + 110pp, appendix, creased corners lower cover, otherwise very good paperback copy. "This book is educational, encouraging and inspirational. It is a book not just for those in business but for all who care about the Chinese people and want to understand..... More
United States. George H. Doran Company. [ 1919]. 1st edition. Black & white frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations. Original orange covered boards decorated and lettered in dark gray. Spine faded cloth lightly marked , offsetting to endpapers, yet a firm and pleasing binding. Published by the Missionary Education Movement. The..... More
Dallas. Baptist General Convention of Texas. No date. (Circa 1968). Black and white line drawings, 79pp, 17 x 12cm. Library stamp and neat signature on title page, light wear to cover, titled in ink on tape on spine, a good copy. Revision of Mary Crawford's original exploration of the resurgence..... More
London. The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford. 1962. Black and white photographic frontispiece, xiv + 139pp, lightly browned spine, extremities, and endpapers, otherwise good hardback copy in browned and price clipped dustjacket. Contents include The Vision of Eternal Things, The Christian Source of Love and Power, The Jewish..... More
London. S. W. Partridge & Co., 1901. 1st edition. Folding coloured map of China: "Shewing All Protestant Mission stations up to June 1866 when the C.I.M. was founded, and the Stations of the China Inland Mission opened since June 1866." Complete with black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous photographs..... More
Boston. Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1896. 1st Edition. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 further illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce. Attractive grey cloth covered boards illustrated in blue and green. 396pp. Some light soiling mainly to the rear board and spine. Head and tail of..... More
Tours. Mame. 1876. Frontispiece "martyre de Joachim Ho", 213pp, original wrappers, first gathering loosening but stitching still holding. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 136591. More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1897. Black & white frontispiece and four full-page photographic plates,158pp + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, first and last leaves foxed, prize book label on front paste-down dated Feb.1902. Tan coloured cloth lettered in gilt on the upper spine and upper board and a black stamped..... More
Toronto. MA Endicott. 1953. First Canadian Edition. Black and white map, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 464pp, appendices, prior owner's signature title page, text sound and clean, paperback covers very worn particularly on spine. "For 22 years Mary Austin Endicott lived and worked in China during one of..... More
New York. Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1894. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 9 plates, 1plate lacking. 301pp, appendix, yellow cloth covered boards, darkened spine and edges, soiling to covers, inner gutters cracked but holding firm, endpapers trifle browned but generally a clean and..... More
Delhi. Pravana Books. 2009. Reprint. 2 volumes. Volume one, viii + 1-172pp. Volume two, 173-342pp, index. Black and white photographic illustrations, 21.1 x 13.6cm. In very good condition. Biography of Calvin Wilson Mateer, an American Presbyterian missionary in Shandong, active from 1864 until his death in 1908. When referring to..... More
New York. Abingdon Press. [ 1922]. Black & white photographic frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 plates throughout the text. Yellow decorative cloth, a little discoloured and marked on the spine, some water discolouration to the edge of the half-title and the title pages, endpapers browned. A firm and tight..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1889. Full page black and white map, 255pp, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, endpapers a little browned, slight mark under the title on the spine otherwise an extremely good copy. 18 x 12cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166364... More
