Toronto: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, light green decorated cloth stamped in black. pp (xvi), (144) + frontispiece (duplicating front cover); 15 designs in text and a few vignette drawings as tailpieces. An account of Father Siao Chi San, a Christian convert and priest. Text paper a bit toned, else a fine, bright copy. The dust jacket has a damp stain, small chips at ends, and small holes, to spine. Short edge tears and some yellowing to panels; good. Made from UK (SPCK) sheets. Whiteman, Macmillan of Canada, Appendix 353 E. The Author's Foreword is dated Toronto, October, 1927. "The art pages of this book were designed and drawn by Miss E.M. Breithaupt, of Kitchener, Ontario, who spend several yeas designing for the China Health Association. They are based upon an intimate study of designs found on Chinese walls, porcelain, silks and coins." - p. vii. A nice copy. The designs, by a Canadian artist, are quite attractive. She also did the attractive cover design.

London (Madras): John Murray (Higginbotham & Co.), 1891. 4th and best edition, Indian issue, with the Higginbotham spine imprint. Octavo, original brown cloth, sides ruled in blind, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, green marbled endpapers. pp (xxviii), (604) + frontispiece. Index. Yellowing to page edges; small spot on front cover neatly touched up; scattered foxing and ticks and lines in margins in pencil; soft vertical ridges to spine; Madras, 1910, pencil owner name at front, else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy, inner hinges not cracked. First published in 1883 as RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LIFE IN INDIA, this new edition "contains so many improvements and additions that it may be regarded as almost a new work." Sir Monier was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. He taught Asian languages, at the East India Company College from 1844 until 1858. He believed that the conversion of India to Christianity should be one of the aims of oriental scholarship. He once predicted the demise of Hinduism and hoped Christianity would halt the spread of Islam. He was widely credited with the introduction of the word Hinduism into common English usage. 1.5 kg parcel.

New York: Revell, 1901. Two volumes, tall octavo, red pictorial cloth stamped in black, white, dark green, and gilt. Vol. I: pp [4], (iii)- (xvi), 364, [4] + frontispiece with tissue guard, many plates, and two folding maps. Vol. II: pp [4], (8), 365-770 + frontispiece with tissue guard, many plates, and 3 maps (one folding). Index. Complete. Ex library. Spines a little darkened, with light remains of call numbers on Vol. I, sticker shadows on both. Vol. I has ink annotations and rubber stamps on endpapers, small rubber stamp on verso of title. Vol. II has bookplate inside front cover of Frederick C. Stephenson, M.D., cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; front free endpaper has ink name of another Stephenson, small chip to upper inner and lower outer corners, small rubber stamps to endpapers and top margin of title leaf. No other library marks - no pouches or labels. Mild flaking to delicate white stamping on front covers. Otherwise a VG or better clean, tight and unworn jacketless pair, front covers bright and showing well. Arthur Henderson Smith (1845-1932) was an American missionary to China who stayed there for 54 years, becoming the best-known American missionary of his day. An extensive and important account of the Boxer Rebellion by one who knew China well and witnessed events. Now uncommon in the market. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1929. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Presumed first binding (also noted in grey cloth lettered in black). pp (xx), 253, [1], (6, ads) + 32 plates containing 38 photos. Corrigendum slip at page 69. Page edges darkened; small cloth snag to spine title repaired; nicks and very shallow loss across head of spine; endpapers yellowed, with ink owner inscription at front; long old cellotape repair to pp 51-52 (no text loss); else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. >>> Ms Palmer, a member of the Huntley & Palmer biscuit company family, enjoyed the company of Wilde. Ruskin, Daudet, and her godfather George Meredith at family table. In 1904 she wed Bertram Brooke, the grandson of the first white Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) and they went to live there. When occasion came to write her memoirs, she found herself unable to do so and hired the (later) noted American novelist, short story writer, and political activist Kay Boyle to ghostwrite the book. The then 18 year old Canadian John Glassco was hired to type the manuscript, which he did well, but he also "inserted in the mouths of the long-dead great additional flights of repartee and far more brilliant bon mots than I had managed to create alone." (Kay Boyle, in Being Geniuses Together). Robert McAlmon wrote that all the dainty wit and bright wit" in the book were Glassco's, and also said that "while [Glassco's] contributions to the book were trivial, the memoirs were so trivial that [Glassco's] contribution took on profundity". Glassco's contribution was not so trivial after all as Boyle told her bibliographer that he, along with Palmer's cousin Archibald Craig. wrote the last two chapters. This is credited as Kay Boyle's first published book, though she also published a collection of short stories with the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1929. It may also be considered Glassco's first extant publication in a book (he reported a 1928 verse pamphlet and a 1929 collection of soft core porn, but there are no known copies of either and it is not certain either were actually published). Fraser Sutherland in his Glassco bibliography does not mention the present book, though he does note that Glassco and Boyle had a brief affair. >>> The book contains much on the Paris expatriate scene of the 1920s and includes a photo of Gertrude Stein. Also mentions Joyce, McAlmon, Boyle, Mary Butts, Winston and Randolph Churchill, Cocteau, Daudet, Isadora and Raymond Duncan, Proust, Ruskin, Ernest Walsh, Ellen Terry, Wilde, and a host of other notables. The book is fairly scarce in the market.

Paris: Adrien le Clere, 1853. Second edition. Two volumes, 12mo. pp 440; (iv), 318. Folding map at front of volume I. Half titles present. Bound in contemporary (publishers?) full marbled sheep, spines with two red labels and gilt decoration, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers. Shallow chips at spine ends; some rubbing and a bit of peeling to the patterned surface; cracked joints of volume II neatly repaired; ink owner name in top margin of each title page; 8 cm closed tear to right hand side of map neatly repaired on blank side with clear archival paper tape (no paper loss); bit of flaking to gilt spine ornamentation; cracked inner hinges skillfully repaired with rice paper; else a VG pair, sound in the bindings; text quite clean and unworn. Huc was a French Lazarist missionary who went out to China in 1839. He stayed in Macao 18 months, then made his way to Peking and eventually to He Shuy, just inside the Mogolian border, where he devoted himself to learning the language and customs of the Tartars. At the urging of the vicar apostolic of Mongolia, he set out on an expedition to Tibet in 1844. After much suffering and crossing the punishing Ordos Desert, his party reached the Tibet border in Jan., 1845, where he stayed for a few months at the famous Kunbum Lamasery where he studied Tibetan and Buddhism. The party eventually reached Lhasa 19 Jan., 1846, but Chinese authorities ordered him to Canton in Oct., 1846, where he remained for nearly 3 years before returning to Europe in shattered health in 1852. The present book was famous in its day and was translated into English by William Hazlitt in 1851. "[Huc's] works are written in a lucid, racy, picturesque style, which secured for them an unusual degree of popularity. The SOUVENIRS is a narrative of a remarkable feat of travel, and contains passages of so singular a character as in the absence of corroborative testimony to stir up a feeling of incredulity. That Huc was suspected unjustly was amply proved by later research. But he was by no means a practical geographer, and the record of his travels loses greatly in value from the want of precise scientific data." - EB, 11th edition. This second edition was re-set, but with few textual changes from the 1850 first edition.