Published by New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952, 1952
Seller: Books to Die For, The Woodlands, TX, U.S.A.
VG/-. 270 pp. Boards rubbed and lightly smudged. Spine sunned and lightly faded. Spine edges and corners more heavily rubbed. Spine square, tight. Interior sunned, very clean. No marks. Two sections of black & white photos. Missionary's true account of the rise of Chinese Communism and methods used to take land and force compliance among citizens.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Young
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952
Seller: Shady Grove Book Store, West Branch, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Book is clean, tight, and square. Appears unread. A piece of the top of the front free end paper is missing, otherwise in Very Good + condition. DJ is Good+ with edge wear and chipping.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1952
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ sunned, torn with rubbed edges and price sticker on inside flap. Light notes in front. Out of print. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.
Published by Warner Books, New York City, New York, 1952
Seller: Navalperson Books and More from Bob, Ashland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Well illustrated (illustrator). Book Club Edition. "No Secret is Safe", Behind the Bamboo Curtain, by Father Mark Tennien of Maryknoll. Copyright 1952 by the author. Published by Warner Books, New York. Book Club Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. Very Good condition in scarlet/black-lettered hard boards, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 270 clean pages of remarkable history of China as the Nationalist government failed, the Communist government succeeded, and the most populous nation on earth began the changes still ongoing today. From World War II onward through the revolution, infiltration, takeover. Fr. Tennien spent a year as a communist prison inmate, a man who underwent Communist indoctrination - he passed, and resisted. Mental cruelty, purges, tortures and enslavement - he kept a diary of it all. Here is that story. A clean hardcover book. Tight and firm, no wear - it's been read perhaps once, but still complete and unmarked. No whitening, perhaps once-read and then maintained for seventy years on a bookshelf. The dust jacket spine is whitened by the sun after all those years - that's it. Splendidly mapped endpages. No mustiness, No looseness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Ex-Library, NOT Remainder-marked. An historic find.
Publication Date: 1952
Seller: Preserving Christian Publications, Inc, Boonville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). 1952 270 pages illustrated.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. Photos on Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red cl. w. black lettering on bkstrip. 270pp. Inscribed the author. VG. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Farrar Straus Young, New York, 1952
Seller: Blue Awning Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ: Good. 270 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. Red cloth covered boards stamped in black on spine. White dj. Slight wear on edges of dj, no markings noted.
Publication Date: 1952
Seller: Preserving Christian Publications, Inc, Boonville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: (good/fair). 1952 270 pages illustrated.
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (China, World War 2, missions, personal narratives).
Published by Farrar, Straus & Yound, Farrar, Straus & Yound, 1952
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. B038556; 270 p, edge wear & tear hardcover, good contents & dustjacket, some wear & fading.
Published by NY: Creative Age Press, (1945). First ed. 8vo. xiv, [i], 201 p. + 9 plates (46 b&w photos). Endpaper maps., 1945
Seller: Viator Used and Rare Books, Burlington, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A Roman Catholic priest, Tennien served as Maryknoll missioner in China during the second world war. A bit worn in orig. cloth with moisture stains on outer edges of covers; internally clean and mostly otherwise in good condition, with dj that is a bit soiled, worn and with chips.
Published by Farrar, Strauss & Ducahy, Inc., 1964
Seller: Whitehorse Books, CLAYTON, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1964 Hard Cover., Farrar, Strauss, Stated Seventh Printing. 270 pgs. Owner notation Title Page. No other reader marks, clean pgs. binding tight. Tanning. Red boards with title in black on spine. DJ fair with some edge wear. light scuffing. Little soiling. B/w Photos. Fr. Tennien was a communist prisoner, sharing his cell with 40 Chinese. During this time, he lived through the mental cruelty, the purge, the tortures used to dehumanize and enslave. He wrote it all down secretly in his diary.
Published by Otto Müller,Salzburg o.J. (1952)., 1952
Seller: Fabri Antiquariat Dr. Jürgen Aschoff, Ulm, BW, Germany
Kein Geheimnis ist sicher. Hinter dem Bambusvorhang. Einführung von Kardinal Spellman. Mit 12 Abb. OLnbd., OSU fehlt, leicht berieben. 266 S.
Published by Farrar, traus and Cudahy, 1957
Seller: George Kent, Bookseller, Silverhill, AL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1957 first edition/printing of 129 pages with illustrations is tight,bright, and free of writings. There is a small stain at the bottom corner of both front and back covers that has affected the small triangular bottom corners of about 1/3 of the book starting at the rear.The yellow cloth cover is not pristine in appearance. Book is good plus.
Published by Creative Press, NY, 1945
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Very good; dust jacket small tears, soil, good-. Small 8 vo. (vii) 201 pp. B/w photos, map end papers, red cloth. Copyrighted by Maryknoll. Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 19980.
Publication Date: 1957
Seller: Preserving Christian Publications, Inc, Boonville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). 1957 129 pages illustrated.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1957
Seller: Bertram Books And Fine Art, West Point, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. xxv, 129 pages. Binding is yellow cloth. Captain Soto's memoirs of his experience in the Flores Islands, Indonesia during World War II. Written with the missionary, Tennien, and weaving in the story of how large number of islanders converted to Christianity. Book cover, and endpapers, are lightly stained. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Authors.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952
Seller: The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Black cloth spine with red cloth boards in red DJ. White marks to spine and portion of the text block is bumped with some page corners folded down. DJ has chips, tears, and creases as well as a faded spine.
Published by Farrar, 1957
Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Young, New York, 1952
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Ex-library with minimal markings, spine cocked, edgeworn, thus good only.
Published by Salzburg Müller Vlg oJ (ca ), 1954
Seller: buch-radel, Köln, Germany
266 S., OLwd. m. OU.(dieser stark lädiert).,Mit Abb. auf Tafeln., Kommunistische Machtübernahme in China., [Gesch_5] Sprache: Deutsch 510 gr.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Young, NY, 1952
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Signed by the author-DJ has much wear.
Published by Salzburg, Otto Müller - Verlag, o.Ang. ca. 198?.
Seller: Rantzauer Sammlerkabinett, Quickborn-Heide, Germany
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. o.Ang. zahlreiche s/w Bildtfln., Textzeichnungen - 266 Seiten Einführung von Kardinal Spellman - die Komunisten marscieren ein, die Durchführung der Bodenreform, die Vernehmungsbeamten, Spione und Schnüffler, wie sie die Glaubensfreiheit auffassen u.a.m. (Schutzumschlag gerändelt, sonst gut) Rs Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 OLein., Goldprägedr. ill.Schutzumschl.
The author was a Maryknoll missioner in wartime China 1942-1943. He tells of his wide range of experiences, balancing hard times with humor. Illustrated with photos, and maps on endsheets. -- Hardcover, 201 pages. Condition: very good (number on endsheet; pencilled note on title-page) with good, bright dust jacket (large chip affecting lettering; edgewear).
Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1957
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 129p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a clipped dustjacket. Label inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket's top front corner has been clipped off. The rest of the jacket is lightly rubbed, but intact. Account of a Japanese officer's conversion to Catholicism.
Condition: very good. 8vo pp.201. book.
Published by Creative Age Press, Inc., 1945
Seller: Brused Books, Pullman, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. G-VG. First edition. (1945) NAP. Solid binding. Clean and square. No writing or names inside. Cover has minor wear to edges and corners. Poor dust jacket is intact with chipping on edges. Book.
Publication Date: 1957
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: USED_NEARFINE. New York 1957 first edition, first printing. Hardcover small octavo. 129p. Bw photo illus. **Signed by both authors. Near Fine. bright yellow cloth . in VG dj. about Catholic missionary work in Indonesia.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952
Seller: Sunny Day Books, Mayer, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. A nice copy SIGNED and inscribed by author. Text in mint/unmarked condition. DJ shows considerable wear with tears. Binding is tight. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available.