Published by Macmillan, NY, 1928
Seller: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG+/Good+. 1st. 8vo. 251pp. Interior tape-reinforcement top spine, DJ has 1/4" chips and tears, edgewear, soiling shows on white parts. Book itself nice. Survey history of the European exploration of Central Asia and China.
Publication Date: 1928
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
1928 Sherwood, Merriam and Elmer Mantz THE ROAD TO CATHAY NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928 Published October 1928 251pp illus William Siegel 8vo Black cloth stamped in gold Previous owner's signature Stuart Wyeth Campbell on front pastedown page Minor insect damage on outer edge of front cover, fading on spine, VG+ hardcover copy.
Published by Macmillan, NY, 1928
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good; no dust jacket. 8 vo. (xii) 253 pp. Author's note, corrections, b/w illustrations William Siegel, double-page color map, brown cloth/black illustrated front cover.
Published by Macmillan & Co., Toronto, 1928
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Siegel, William (illustrator). First Edition. The Road to Cathay. This book is in very good condition, with only minor signs of shelf wear or aging. The dust jacket is in fair condition in a wrapper, price-clipped, worn, and with some small tears, but intact.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1494069679 ISBN 13: 9781494069674
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2007
ISBN 10: 0548020604 ISBN 13: 9780548020609
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. William Siegel (illustrator). First Edition. Discussion of the tales of early travellers Friar John of Plano Carpini, Friar Odoric the Bohemian, Inb Batuta the Moor, William of Rubruquis & Marco Polo and lands they called Cambulac, Lhassa, Manzi, Cathay, Camadi, Ind & Tabriz: modern day China, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Indonesia & the Middle East; Kubla Khan's Tartars; some of the tales of Sir John of Mandeville. First printing. Hardcover, full brown cloth, black titling & decoration; illustrated endsheets. Light wear, one corner lightly bumped; name on free endsheet; jacket price-clipped in two places, retaining one price, jacket rubbed with some light edge chipping, jacket spine faded & spotted. Text clean; xii, [2], 251 pages + errata page; list of the 'best' versions in English of the original works discussed; elegant line drawings, some full-page; two color maps.
Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1928
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorations by William Siegel. Fine in near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping at the spinal extremities.
Publication Date: 1928
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original typescript on blue paper with holograph and typed corrections. A Very Good copy. 8 1/2" x 11." 251 leaves (some page numbers are missing but this could be due to the typescript being a draft; some page numbers are also divvied into subpages, such as Page 8 and Page 8a). No illustrations in this draft, but the published book included illustrations by William Siegel. Most of the holograph corrections are in pencil, a few are in black ink. Chapters I-VIII have the most holograph corrections that appear every other page or so. Chapters IX-XV have fewer handwritten corrections (a few per chapter) but several pages within each of these chapters have typed corrections. Typescript is clean and intact overall. Pages have edge wear and some are dog-eared. Some pages have slight dampstaining along the edges. Paper clips holding the pages of each chapter have left rust spots, some of which affect typed text and handwritten corrections; however, said text and corrections are still readable. "Chapter XV: Of the Lands Beyond Persia" or "Chapter XVI: Of the Lands Between the Black Sea and the Red" is missing from this draft (the last chapter is labeled as "Chapter XV" but has the title of Chapter XVI). This is an earlier draft of Merriam Sherwood's and Elmer Mantz's book, The Road to Cathay. Merriam Sherwood (1892-1961) was an author of children's literature. The co-author, Elmer Mantz, was also Sherwood's husband. Mantz had an extensive writing career and specialized in scholarly literature. The Road to Cathay is aimed toward a juvenile audience and is about thirteenth- and fourteenth-century explorers and their travels to China and other parts of Asia and surrounding areas. Explorers named in The Road to Cathay include Friar John of Piano Carpini, Friar Odoric of Pordenone, William of Rubruck, Ibn Battuta, and Marco Polo. Table of Contents included which lists the following chapters: "The Wayfarers," "The Moving City," "The Golden Horde," "The Road to Karakorum," "The Road to Cambaluc," "Of the Great City of Cambaluc," "Cathayan Marvels," "Of What Lay South-West of Cambaluc," "What the Travelers Saw When They Went South from Cambaluc Along the Sea," "Of the Great Cities of Manzi," "Of the Islands of the South," "The Four Rivers of Paradise," "The Wonders of Ind," "Of the Land of Persia," "Of the Lands Beyond Persia," and "Of the Lands Between the Black Sea and the Red.". Inscribed by Author(s).