Foreign Devil by Earl Lawrence: First Edition (6 results)

Condition: Fair. 1962. First Edition. 240 pages. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering over black cloth. B&W photographs throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with staining and soiling to DJ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. Scarce biography of missionary/nurse Mary Ball, good in fair price-clipped dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; small chips to jacket corners, bottom third of jacket spine is missing, minor spine lean, board corners lightly bumped, owner inscription on ffep, some soiling/staining to jacket else a tight unmarked copy in the elusive dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in a Good Dust-Jacket with a couple of closed tears to the top edge of the upper and lower cover with tape strengthening apllied along top edge on the underside of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is NO leaning to spine.This copy was acquired personally from the Impressive private collection of Academic Douglas Lancashire,born and educated in China.His family came to England where he served in the R.A.F during the war.He then lectured on the philosophy of religion in Hong Kong and in 1962 he bacame Foundation Professor of Chinese and Head of the Dept of Asian Languages and Literature at Auckland University in New Zealand.He has written many articles and translated many works into English.Uncommon title 8vo 269pp First Edition 1st Impression [1962].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 240pp. Original publisher's black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Sage green flecked pictorial dw, black & red English & Chinese lettering on front, not price clipped 18s net. White eps. Neat signature inside front cover. Book : slight leaning, slight shelf knocks top/bottom of spine else very clean & bright. Dw : 1cm closed tear + rubbing top of spine, a few finger marks on fronts, browning else clean & unchipped. Contents : eps & outside edges of pages slight browning else very clean & tight. Clean tight copy in complete dw. VG+/VG-.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 240pp. With 9 illustrations. The life of the nurse Mary Ball, who ran a hospital in remote North China during the civil turmoil of the 1920s & 1930s and was interned by the Japanese. Very Good in Good protected jacket. Book has clean pages, light spotting to foredge; bright covers, endpapers tanned. Jacket has some foxing marks, heavier to rear. Rubbing to spine, to folds and to rear, light chipping along flap edges. A Good+ copy in Good dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1962. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. The story of Mary Ball who spent her entire adult life working as a matron in a hospital in the remote north China town of Tatung. B/w photos. Wrapper edge-browned with a couple of small closed edge-tears. REDUCED FROM £120. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…