Portrait Of A Chinese Lady And Certain Of Her Contemporaries [Inscribed to Author's Aunt and Uncle]

Lady (Dorothea) Hosie

Published by Hodder and Stoughton

About this Item

No Edition Remarks. 404 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth; gilt Chinese characters to front; English titles and Huabiao motif to spine. Inscribed to FEP: 'To Uncle John & Aunty Emily, with the author's best love, Dorothea Hosie Oct 31 1929'. Undated. B&W photographic frontis and plates, complete. In which Lady Hosie recounts her travels in China and conversations with its inhabitants. Pages and plates have slight foxing, tanning and thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding firm. Occasional mild smudges. Recent pen inscription to FEP. A tiny edge tear to one plate. Top edge very tanned, others less so. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall, with minor scratches and droplets. Spine heavily sunned, with creasing and worn gilt. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean.

Seller Inventory # 1780568630ANA

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portrait Of A Chinese Lady And Certain Of Her Contemporaries [Inscribed to Author's Aunt and Uncle]
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Maps, Places and Travel