London. Putnams/Murray New York &, 1900. 1st American edition. Folding colour sketch map of 'The Yangtze Basin showing Mrs Bishop's Route.' 2 volumes: 2 black & white photographic frontispieces and 114 black and white photographic illustrations by the author and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Dark blue decorated cloth, top..... More

London. Macmillan. 1946. Maps,black and white photographic illustrations, vi + 217pp, 4.5 x 2.5 cm piece cut from upper corner front free endpaper, original blue cloth trifle rubbed at edges, a good copy. The author spent several years in China before the outbreak of World War II as a tobacco..... More

London. Methuen & Co Ltd., 1955. Tranlated from Norwegian. Map, decorative endpapers, black and white photographic illustrations, 219pp, occasional browning and foxing first and last leaves, a good hardback copy in slightly worn dustjacket. Sigurd Eliassen, a Norwegian engineer, was assigned the task of irrigating Shensi just prior to World..... More

Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1913. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 338pp, index, some foxing preliminary leaves. Pictorial upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, some rubbing particularly at head and tail of spine and corners, upper edge a little damaged, good copy. The author's journey took her from..... More

Berlin. Wolfgang Kruger Verlag. c.1935. 326pp, inscription front free endpaper, some foxing and browning to cloth boards, edges and pages, otherwise a sound copy. Called "House of Exile" in English, this is the German translation. The author went to China in 1920 and spent 12 years living with a Chinese..... More