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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pacific Press Publishing Association, Published 1967. Paperback, v, 121 pp.; 22 cm; A Destiny Book D-114. Cover illustration by John Steel. In Good condition. Pictorial covers with a painting of a Japanese sentry before a carved temple gate on front and a Shanghai street scene with rickshaw and porter on rear; bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild to moderate overall shelf and edge wear, some color loss along edges and spine, some mild toning and scuffing. Light creasing to spine, binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover, with slight ink transfer to title page; diagonal crease at lower corner of inside front cover. Light soiling to edges of text block and mild toning to pages; small nicks to fore-edge of a few leaves (pp. 60-61, 64); otherwise unmarked. True account of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries John and Olga Oss, who sailed for China in 1919. John headed the publishing work in Manchuria and later became editor in chief of the Chinese Signs of the Times in Shanghai, while Olga raised funds for a clinic for the city's poor. After Pearl Harbor the Japanese interned them at the Chapei Civilian Assembly Center outside Shanghai, where they spent thirty-one months; the book covers camp rations, Red Cross parcels, a wedding among the internees and the end of the war, then their return to Shanghai in 1947. Cover illustration by John Steel (1921-1998), the California illustrator known for Revell and Monogram model-kit box art and for religious illustration for Pacific Press. Contents: Whose Shall These Riches Be?; The Bombs Fall, December 8, 1941; The Escape; A Coffin and the Twenty-third Psalm; The Enemy Hatchet Strikes; The Silver Opium Box; Prisoners in a Japanese War Camp; Early Days at Camp; Please, Commandant, Just a Week's Honeymoon; John Oss Leaves Camp; Worms and Woes; War News Leaks Out; Starvation Threatens; Food Falls From Heaven; The War Ends; Angel of Death Gets Cheated; God Is Not Dead.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. This hardcover edition of "Trapped in Death Valley" is in fair condition. The cover shows signs of wear, particularly along the edges and spine. There is no dust jacket present. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean with no inscriptions or library markings. John Steel (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated with B&W pen & ink drawings. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square, a little soiling to page edges. Covers clean, colors bright, spine and extremities with a little general wear, small scuffs at top right hand corner, slight buckling at bottom of book. Based on William Lewis Manly's book Death Valley in '49. A story about a family's travel in a wagon train to California. They find themselves in Utah, with short tempers, scarcity of food, winter about to set in and several months' short of their goal. All books are in my smoke free & climate controlled shop and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Steel, John (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. COPYRIGHT 1972. COVER HAS SOME CREASING AND SHELF WEAR. NAME AND ADDRESS ON FLY-LEAF. 121 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR. PIONEER. 6'' X 8.5''. WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Excellent copy overall. Binding is tight with no visible wear. Cover is clean with no creases or tears. Corners are crisp with no bumping. Colors are bright, no staining, no markings on inside pages. Illustrated with B&W pen & ink drawings. John Steel (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.