Fifty Years Against the Stream: The Story of a School in Kashmir, 1880-1930
by TYNDALE-BISCOE, E. D
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Mysore: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1930. First edition. Square 8vo. (7 ½" x 10"); red, pictorial cloth; gilt spine, xv, 96 pp, 54 plates. With a foreword by Lord Baden Powell. Very light wear and soiling to cloth with small ¾" tear along the top of the front joint. A VG copy lacking the dust jacket, if issued with one. The history and activities of a CMS (Church Missionary Society) boys' school in Kashmir. Photographs throughout showing the boys engaged in physical activities, bathing, eating, boating, working, etc.
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- D. Anthem, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06203
- Title
- Fifty Years Against the Stream: The Story of a School in Kashmir, 1880-1930
- Author
- TYNDALE-BISCOE, E. D
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mysore: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press
- Date Published
- 1930
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