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Constable & Co., ltd., 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Constable & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. New popular edition. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Prize plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight backwards lean.

Hardcover.

Hardcover.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. Hardback, no dustjacket, third edition. Illustrated, large folding map, 301 pages. The green cloth binding has some wear and has faded a little.There is some edge foxing throughout with the first and last few pages more extensively affected.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1943. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean beige covers with blind decoration and black lettering on the lightly spotted spine, lightly spine-ends and corners, sound binding, previous owners' names in pencil on front end-papers. Clean pages. This edition does not contain illustrations but the tissue map in the pocket on the inside of the rear cover is clean and crisp. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60822081012. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 Book. Fair. Beige Cloth Boards. Sixth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Compelling account of a hazardous journey undertaken by three women missionaries across the largely untracked wastes of North-Western China and Central Asia. 318pp. Fold-out map to rear. Left hinge cracked, boards marked, edges browned, marks to a couple of margins and two former owners' names to front endpaper, otherwise fair reading copy. Map in very good condition and text good..

London England: Constable & Co, 1934. Hardback.Through Jade Gate. Browning to end inside covers. Sunned spine. Red cloth with black lettering. With an Introduction by Rev. John Stuart Holden. Contents: From Hwochow to Kanchow. In the Far North-West. Across the Gobi Desert. In the Land of the Reds. With a Frontispiece and Map. 304 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). New Popular Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo. Hardback.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1937. Hard Cover. Owners name endpaper. Foxed. Very clean interior. No Jacket. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1943. Hardcover. Good Condition. Dust Jacket is rather worn, with chips, holes and tears. All pages free from notes or highlighting. Solid, secure bindings; spine intact. A presentable used copy without significant flaws. xiv, 318 pp.. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; China; China Description and travel; China Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu; Gobi; Travel; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China); Add. Inventory No: 230425ROSX009006. .

Hodder & Stoughton, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. NOT an ex library book. Clean copy for age, no just cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton St. Paul's House, 1937. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original bdg. HC. 12mo. (18 x 12 cm). In English. 318 p., folded map. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. An account of journeys in Kansu, Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. Introduction by John Stuart Holden. This travel book recounts, by two of the participants, the hazardous journey of three women across the largely untracked spaces of North-Western China and Central Asia. The three women were Protestant Christian Missionaries working as part of the China Inland Mission, the trio were independent, strong-willed, and bold women.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. Orig. grey cloth. xiv, 15-318 pp. Spine foot bleached. Folding map to rear with one short tear. Dust jacket lightly chafed to edges, small perforations to front fore edge, light soiling to rear.

, xvi 1-304 pages, photographic frontispiece and plates throughout, fold-out map at the back of the book (Chinese Turkestan); third impression, 251 pages, front end paper map, this second title was contributed to by all three authors

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927. The DUSTWRAPPER is a little bit grubby. .POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY!) .Please e-mail for further details FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS.. Not Signed or Inscribed. Eleventh Edition (6th in This Form) 1947. Pale Green Cloth. Very Good (AVERAGE)/Very Good (AVERAGE). Illus. by Fold Out Map. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 VG+/VG+. 12mo. original beige cloth (slightly rubbed & toned, occasional spotting, prev. onwer's details in pencil to FFE) in dustwrapper priced 2/- (a little rubbed & nicked, else most presentable); pp.i-xiv, 15-318, with folding map. A very good copy, uncommon in dustwrapper.. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

London: Constable & Co.,, 1927. Signed by two members of the "trio" First edition, first impression, presentation copy to Rev. John Stuart Holden, the author of the introduction. The front free endpaper is inscribed by Cable, "With our warmest regards and thanks, A. Mildred Cable", and signed by French below. The near-contemporary ownership inscription of Holden's wife, Jessie Findlay Holden, is at the head of the endpaper. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia is the second work by the "trio" - Mildred Cable (1878-1952), Francesca French (1871-1960), and Eva French (1869-1960) - and concentrates on the first of their "astonishing evangelical journeys" (Robinson) through Gansu and across the Gobi Desert. Setting out in 1926 and heading north-west, they followed the main trade route across the desert - decided by the location of oases - to Urumqi and onwards to the Russian frontier, heading home to London by train via Moscow. After recounting an expedition of some 6,000 miles, the work ends with their… Leer más