Constance Evelyn Roberts (5 results)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original color printed boards; spine bands very slightly rubbed and dust-dulled. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 104 pages; Description: 104 p. : 18 cm. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original color printed boards; spine bands very slightly rubbed and dust-dulled. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 104 pages; Description: 104 p. : 18 cm. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear tio top and bottom of illustrated covers and spine, some slight overall brown ing and time staining commensurate with age, corners bruised, no evident price, small previous owner's inscription to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 112pp. A tale of three boys who become friends with an English missionary who was born and raised in China.By forgotten Australian author Dr. Constance Evelyn Roberts (1877-1968). Cover and illustrations by Mablel R. Peacock (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. 12mo Orange cloth covered boards with gilt deco to dvr and gilt spine titles now dimmed. No dust jacket. Girls School gilt stamp to front board. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Presentation plate to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with Board corners slightly bumped. Ow VG/ndj: 157pp, index, map of travel in SE China. Contains black and white photographic plates. Martin Lindsay and FAN Lee-chin, at 15, explored from HK to Chongqing and down the Yangzi, every now and then crossing paths with the Enthusiast, trained as a diplomat, but now after the war engaged in reorganizing the universities and seemingly leftist students for the revolution to come and inciting a riot to overthrow the collaborationist univ principal. So this journey is taking place sometime btwn 1946-49; the book tho publ in 1951 gives no sign of the coming Maoist victory. /cf THE TRAVELLER IN ASIA: or, A VISIT to the Most Celebrated Parts of the EAST INDIES AND CHINA. With an Account of the Manners of the Inhabitants, Natural Productions, and Curiosities. For the Instruction and Entertainment of Young Persons. Wakefield, Priscilla. Published by Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, Gracechurch Street, LONDON, 1817.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Edition Remarks. 8vo Illustrated paper covered boards. No dust jacket. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects, light foxing, tanning, mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light sunning to spine ow VG/ndj: 102pp, color frontis+full page bw illus thruout. The beggar boy is rafted out of the village on a flood that throws him together into a boat with the young Englishman Crock and they come thru innumerable adventures together into harbor in Shanghai where their fortunes are madea la Huck and Jim on the missisip.…