Gusty's Child by Alice Tisdale Hobart - 1959

Hard Cover Hardcover. GOOD/Missing or Not Issued. • Binding: Hard Cover •

New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1959 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Some scuffs and soils on DJ and book. 343 pages..

New York: Longmans, Green, 1959 1st ed. 343pp. red cloth 8vo: Very Good in a worn dj now stabilized in a poly cover [endpp. are age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The autobiography of the American novelist Hobart (1882-1967), probably most famous for her 1933 bestselling novel, "Oil for the Lamps of China."

Longmans, Green & Co., 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book condition is Fine. Exceptionally clean pages and snappy tight binding. Appears unread. Black and blue boards are very clean, crisp and colorful, with no sign of any wear. PON on front paste down. DJ is VG. Light rubbing and edge wear, and a small piece missing from the bottom of the spine. BCE. A very nice, solid book.

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 278 p. Audience: General/trade.

NY: Longmans Green. VG. (1959). Black binding, aqua spine. .

New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1959. BCE - Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 278 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear. Dj shows minor cuts and tears around places.

New York, NY: Longmans, Green & Co.. Good in Good dust jacket;. 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 278 pages; DJ taped at front panel, chipped at edges. Book clean and tight. Sticker damage front cover DJ. True life story of the author and her husband in China. .

BOMC hardcover with full dust jacket with minor edgewear. Living in China before and during its Industrial Revolution and before WW2. Her eventual husband worked for the U.S. government and they moved about the country in the interest of U.S. trade agreements. This is her autobiography.

New York, NY: Longmans, Green and Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This copy has been signed twice - first by the author on the half title page, and also signed by the author's husband Earle Tisdale Hobart on the dedication page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips, especially to the spine ends and corners. "Her life in Changsha formed the backdrop for her second book, By the City of the Long Sand in 1926, while an assault on Nanking by Nationalist soldiers and her escape over the city wall to the safety of the waiting American gunboats was recounted in Within the Walls of Nanking in 1928. This book started as a piece in Harper's Magazine. Her fictional account… Read More