China, social life – Hardy (Revd. E. J., MA) John Chinaman a...

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China, social life – Hardy (Revd. E. J., MA) John Chinaman at Home: Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905, 8vo, 335pp, frontis and 31 monochrome photographic prints, buff boards, black titles, gilt pagoda and titles to spine, cover worn; Der Ling (Princess), Old Buddha, New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1928 8vo, xvii + 347pp, yellow and red end papers, yellow boards, black and red printed titles; Dyer Ball (J., ISO, MRAS), The Chinese at Home or the Man of Tong and his Land, London, Religious Tract Society, 1911, 8vo xiii + 370pp coloured frontis and title page, 6 colour plates and 21 monochrome, MS inscr. C M J Caird/29th March 1912, red boards, gilt embossed titles and vignette, gilt spine titles; Hosie (Dorothea, Lady, 1885-1959), Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Certajn of her Contemporaries, London, Hodder & Stoughton, popular edn., 1933, 8vo, xv + 404 pp, frontis and seven monochrome plates, pink textured cloth, embossed black titles, d. w. with plastic protector; Selby-Lowndes (Joan), Circus Train, illus. Geoffrey Dean, New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1957, 8vo, 240pp, monochrome vignettes, pink embossed black boards with vignettes, black spine titles, d. w. (slight tears) plastic protector; Brown (Brian) The Wisdom of the Chinese: their Philosophy in Sayings and Proverbs, preface Ly Hoi Sang, NY, Brentano, 2nd printing 1920, 8vo, 208pp, frontis portrait of Confucius with tissue guard, several plates, quarter black cloth over orange boards with black Chinese symbol; Dingle (Edwin), Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement, new foreword by Graham Earnshaw, Hong Kong, China Economic Review Publishing, reprint of 1911 original, 2007, 8vo, xx + 445, profusely illus,, maps at end, card covers; Giles (Professor Herbert A., LLD, MA, trans. and annotated), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1916 small 8vo, xxiii + 488pp, bookseller’s label inside front cover, Ray L. Six, Stillwater, Oklahoma, re-bound brown cloth re-mounted yellow boards; Forbes (Archibald) Chinese Gordon: A Succinct Account of his Life, London, Routledge, 1884, small 8vo, 252pp, photographic frontis. portrait, ‘Gordon Pasha photographed at Khartoum’ with tissue guard, red boards, gilt dragon, black titles, some wear to cover (9)