Methuen & Co 1914. FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN D/W, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 319pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising & moderate discolouration to spine & boar dextrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, eps, prelims & terminals, prev owner's names in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping with loss to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, heavy crack to spine hinge with discreet internal archival tape repairs- very tidy externally)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 310546
Title: Home Life in China
Author: HEADLAND, ISAAC TAYLOR
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen & Co 1914
Keywords: first editions China history culture literature customs

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