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The Eight Immortals [Temple Hill Cut-Outs] by WOMEN'S BIBLE SCHOOL, PRESBYTERIAN MISSION - 1930

by WOMEN'S BIBLE SCHOOL, PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

The Eight Immortals [Temple Hill Cut-Outs] by WOMEN'S BIBLE SCHOOL, PRESBYTERIAN MISSION - 1930

The Eight Immortals [Temple Hill Cut-Outs]

by WOMEN'S BIBLE SCHOOL, PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

  • Used
Chefoo, China, 1930. Lovely fine example of the Temple Hill Cut-Out books, illustrated with eight pages affixed with cut black paper depicting figures, plus one cut-out on the title page. Each of the eight cut-outs is accompanied by a delicate glassine, on which is printed in English the legend of the corresponding figure. Bound in pictorial woven cloth over flexible boards, string-bound with black cord. Laid in is a sheet about the origin of the cut-out books.. Small quarto. 18 x 23.5 cm. Temple Hill Cut-Outs of Chefoo, China, made by the Self-help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission. Intricate, beautiful cut-paper illustrations.
  • Bookseller Captain's Bookshelf, Inc., ABAA US (US)
  • Book Condition Used - Lovely fine example of the Temple Hill Cut-Out books, illustrated with eight pages affixed with cut black paper depicting figure
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Place of Publication Chefoo, China
  • Date Published 1930
  • Keywords BOOKOFCHAN
Seeing China ( Temple Hill cut-outs )
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Seeing China ( Temple Hill cut-outs )

by Women's Bible School, American Presbyterian Mission

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket, As Issued
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Item Price
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Chefoo, China: Women's Bible School, American Presbyterian Mission No Date, circa 1930. Near Fine, pages with light toning. Oblong folio, 10" x 13 3/4". Bound in beautiful red pictorial embossed silk over limp boards, string-tied, 28 pp of cut-out illustrations in black and white, many with colorful silk inlays, with tissue guards, publisher's 1 page explanatory leaf laid in, also an original 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" cut-out with colorful silk inlays and string hanger readt-to-hang laid in. Cut-out chapter headings are Travel and Transportation, Customs and Habits, Chinese Birth-Year Cycle (latest date 1935), Occupations, The Eight Immortals, Myths and Legends, Chinese Recipes, Chinese Children, Chinese Junks, and The Magician. Well over 100 cut-outs in all, including the bonus laid in cut-out, and SCARCE THUS. First Edition. String Tied. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Oblong Folio .
Item Price
£2,438.70