A Desert Journal : With the Scarce Wrapper And Signed By All Three Authors: Very scarce in what would appear to be the earliest issue of binding and wrapper
by Cable, Mildred, French, Evangeline and French, Francesca
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good++/Very Good++
- Seller
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Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The First UK printing published by Constable and Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1934. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. It is complete with the sixteen two-tone photographic plates and the folding map to rear, as called for. Black, white and red folding map to rear, shows : 'Map of Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) marking each Oasis on the main trade route across the Gobi Desert.' Royal-blue boards with white titles to spine and white facsimile signatures of the three authors to the front board. Light off-setting to the front and rear free endpapers. Sporadic spotting to the text-block which encroaches onto the pages in a few places with a little dustiness to the upper text-block. Map clean and bright. A very tiny penned inscription to the last page. The scarce photographic WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good or better condition. Mild edge-wear with some toning and light spotting to the spine. A very tiny penned inscription to the rear upper cover. The wrapper looks very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been Signed by all three authors (who have included their initials as well) to a title page from another copy which has been tipped into the front of this copy. 'A Desert Journal' records in letters the three women's experiences as they traveled on their missionary journeys in Central Asia on behalf of the China Inland Mission to China, Tibet, Kashmir, Mongolia and Turkestan. 'These Desert Journals [from June 18th, 1928 to September 21st, 1932] are personal letters sent home during a period of years spent on missionary journeys in central Asia. They were written in unusual places and in diverse circumstances. Sometimes in the shade of a Tibetan Lamasery, sometimes in the Palace of a Mongol Khan, occasionally from the sand hills of the Edzin Gol and often in a mud shelter of the great desert of Gobi.' (Quote from the preface by the authors). 'We are writing from a Tibetan Pass in the Richthofen Mountains. We are nomads once more, and our home is a small tent in which three tidy people can live in comparative comfort. By night the floor space is covered with bed bags, but during the daytime we pile these up to make a divan and a respectable reception-room is evolved. This well-made double-fly tent, lined with yellow cotton, fitted with capacious pockets and finished off with a fringed and stencilled dado of Indian design, is an unqualified success. Its powers of resistance to the wind are considerable. The gale which swept down the valley last night laid the preaching tent flat, but we lay snug and safe.' (Quote from Journal entry: Lamasery of the Tibetan Border, June 1st, 1929, (page 46). Very scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11111122222353
- Title
- A Desert Journal : With the Scarce Wrapper And Signed By All Three Authors
- Author
- Cable, Mildred, French, Evangeline and French, Francesca
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable and Hodder & Stoughton, London
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Asia, Cable, China, French
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
Biblio member since 2015
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
About Ashton Rare Books ABA, PBFA, ILAB
We trade as a family-run internet business in Market Harborough in the heart of the Midlands. We have over 10 years experience of collecting and selling a range of genres, specialising in iconic modern fiction and children's titles. Please feel free to browse our website: www.ashtonrarebooks.com. All items are fully described and if any reasonable discrepancy is noted on arrival to the customer, a full refund including payment for return to us will be made. Items over £250 may be paid for in instalments subject to agreement- however, all books remain the property of Ashton Rare Books until the full balance has been paid. Please contact us at : les@ashtonrarebooks.com if you are looking for a particular title or require further assistance.We are full members of the PBFA, ABA and ILAB.
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