Kaleidoscope: Shifting Scenes from East to West
by E. Katherine Bates
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£220.00£198.00
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward and Downey, 1889. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None. The first edition of E. Katherine Bates's scarce account of her world travels in the late nineteenth century. English gentlewoman Emily Katherine Bates's account of her travels in Tasmania, Sidney, Melbourne, New Zealand, China, Japan, Alaska, and the Canadian Pacific Railway.A novelist by profession, and widely travelled, Bates's first novel Egyptian Bonds (1879) depicts a group of English travellers on a Nile voyage, and her travel book A Year in the Great Republic (1887) recounts a tour of Canada and the United States. Bates also authored a number of works on spiritualism, including 1907's Seen and Unseen.An excellent copy of this scarce first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 834F6
- Title
- Kaleidoscope: Shifting Scenes from East to West
- Author
- E. Katherine Bates
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward and Downey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 9.5" by 6.5"
- Keywords
- australia New Zealand asia travel New Zealand
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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