Taber William F (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 17pp article, printed in double columns, illustrated with 19 drawings, including a full-length portrait of the author, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume 47, April, 1894. From the opening paragraph, "In 1888-89, I wandered in China, Mongolia, and Tibet; I dressed and lived like a Chinese frontiersman, and ate all the dirty messes of Chinamen, Mongols, and Tibetans; I used fingers instead of fork or chop sticks; I licked my platter instead of washing it; and I conformed to every other social dictate of the countries through which I passed." Housed in protective mylar report cover. W. Taber, F. L. M. Pape, O. Toaspern, Malcolm Fraser, Harry Fenn, Gilbert Gaul (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Nature, local history. Reprint edition. Covers rubbed, corners and spine end bumped. Owner ink stamps inside the front and rear covers, and on the book block edge, otherwise the interior is clean and tight.