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AbeBooks Seller since 07 March 2000
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Text/As New. Blue linen boards w/yellow bands/Acceptable; sound w/rubs, fraying to edges, fading & lesions to spine, and wear & discoloration to surface. DJ/None. Historical novel set in China of early 1900s to 1920s --- last years of the Ch'ing Dynasty thru' the upheavals of China's Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s. Most famous of 12 novels by Alice Tisdale Hobart (1882 - 1967). it was a 1934 bestseller and adapted to film starring Pat O'Brien in 1935. Story of experiences of young American oil representative Stephen Chase, drawing heavily on author's experiences as wife to a Standard Oil executive stationed in China during the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912. First published by Bobbs Merrill, 1933; this is a Grosset & Dunlap reprint. Strong copy despite a very tired hard cover. Seller Inventory # 017938
Bibliographic Details
Title: OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1933
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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