Cadet Stephen
by Pickford Evans, Alice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Judson Press, 1930. First edition. hardcover. g. Octavo. 173pp. Original blue cloth with b/w photographic image mounted onto embossed gilt frame and gilt lettering and ornament embossed on cover. Frontispiece photograph. Lively narrative about missionary life on Fiji and China, e.g. . chapters on Cannibals and Christians, the Beauties of Suva on Fiji, respectively Mai Lien, the story of an unwanted second daughter in a Chinese family. Illustrated with 6 b/w photographs, including frontispiece. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed, bumped at top corners. Spine discolored and some soiling. Blind stamp on front endpaper. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35024
- Title
- Cadet Stephen
- Author
- Pickford Evans, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Judson Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- fijian cultur, chinese culture, ethnology, colo-I-Suva, south sea, christmas holidays, gifts, native church, chien tang river
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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