Corner Cathay by Adele Fielde: First Edition (3 results)
More imagesPublished by MacMillan and Co., New York 1894
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Orchid Press, Trinity East, NL, CanadaOrchid Press
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 80.00
US$ 20.00 shippingShips from Canada to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The author, an American Baptist missionary and scientist who resided in Swatow for some fifteen years and was fluent in Chinese, provides a sympathetic account of life, customs and beliefs in rural southern China at the time. Illustrated with a dozen fine and charming watercolour p…aintings in the Chinese style (tissue guard for one illustration missing). Clean ex-lib with usual marks on spine, front and rear paste-downs; perforated lib. stamp on title page. Front hinge cracked but remains strong. Internal pages clean and unmarked. xi, 286 pp., 12 col. ill.'s. Size: 19 x 15 cm.
Published by Macmillan NY 1894 1894
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
Contact seller5-star seller286pp. small 8vo Illustrated with 12 color plates "by artists in the celebrated school of Go Leng, at Swatow, China" Gilt pictorial red cloth, top edges gilt 1st edition, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper: "To/ Mrs. L.B. Ramsdell/with sincere regards from/ the author" followed by 2 Chinese ideograms a…nd dated October 1, 1898 Light foxing, 1 tissue guard loose, covers lightly rubbed: still, a nice clean tight bright copy: VG/no dj.
More imagesPublished by MacMillan and Co, New York and London 1894
- First Edition
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1] 286; frontispiece and 11 plates; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; spine slightly sunned and with a small indent; all else verry good, bright, sound, and clean. Fielde was a multi-talented scientist and missionary. She travelled to China following her fiancé, but… upon arrival learned that he had passed away. She subsequently spent 15 years in China, doing missionary work and producing a dictionary of Teochew before returning to the US. In her book she covers broader topics such as Taoism and Confucianism, but also ethnological and legal matters including the role of woman in society.
