Two Gentlemen of China. An Intimate Description of the Private Life of Two Patrician Chinese Families, Their Homes, Loves, Religion, Mirth, Sorrow, & Many Other Aspects of Their Family Life
by Lady Hosie (Dorothea Soothill Hosie)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good + overall
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924. First American edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. 8vo, 316 pp, frontispiece, b&w printed photographic illustrations throughout. Red-orange gilt cloth, gilt stamped design of pagoda on front cover. Spine sunned, rear cover dusty; deaccessed from Bristol public library; library stamp at front & on title page, text bright and clean.
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- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25620
- Title
- Two Gentlemen of China. An Intimate Description of the Private Life of Two Patrician Chinese Families, Their Homes, Loves, Religion, Mirth, Sorrow, & Many Other Aspects of Their Family Life
- Author
- Lady Hosie (Dorothea Soothill Hosie)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1924
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHINA;
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