WALL OF SPEARS, the Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French, with illustrations by Joan Kiddle-Monroe - 1951

Lutterworth Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. First Edition. 178 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Signed by Francesca French, one of the authors behind the book. This volume was written to help those who read it to a better understanding of a little-known part of the world.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 177, [1]; map endpapers, frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout by Joan Kiddell-Monroe; fine in a price-clipped dust-jacket. Strange stories of desert demons, brigands, caravans, and the Great Wall of China by a pair of British evangelists who had lived for more than a decade in the Gobi Desert.

London : Lutterworth Press. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in burgundy cloth in a Very Good dust-jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.There is some light spotting to the rear cover.Not Price Clipped.The book has one booksellers ticket from Morecambe in Lancashire to the bottom edge of the front pastedown.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Illustrated with black and white drawings by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.The original dust-wrapper is now well protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 178pp First Edition 1st Impression [1951] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1951.