OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
by Hobart, Alice Tisdale
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Text/As New. Blue linen boards w/yellow bands/Acceptable; sound w/rubs, fraying to edges, fading & lesions to spine, and wear & discoloration to surface. DJ/None. Historical novel set in China of early 1900s to 1920s --- last years of the Ch'ing Dynasty thru' the upheavals of China's Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s. Most famous of 12 novels by Alice Tisdale Hobart (1882 - 1967). it was a 1934 bestseller and adapted to film starring Pat O'Brien in 1935. Story of experiences of young American oil representative Stephen Chase, drawing heavily on author's experiences as wife to a Standard Oil executive stationed in China during the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.. First published by Bobbs Merrill, 1933; this is a Grosset & Dunlap reprint. Strong copy despite a very tired hard cover.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017938
- Title
- OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
- Author
- Hobart, Alice Tisdale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/China/Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty/American Oil Companies
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