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Cassell and Co London nd. Hardcover. Bound in brwon cloth, no DW, illustrated spine and front board shows an illustration of a hunter attacking a leopard, 4 coloured plates, 308pp Good. Endpapers (only) are foxed and there is foxing to the page edges
THE LOST COLUMN, A Story of the Boxer Rebellion in China by Gilson, Captain Charles - 1910
by Gilson, Captain Charles
THE LOST COLUMN, A Story of the Boxer Rebellion in China
by Gilson, Captain Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton / H&S, 1910. Book. Illus. by Cyrus Cuneo. About Very Good. Hardcover. Early Reprint.. Small octavo. A scarce title set in the time of the Boxer Rebellion, telling the story "Of the Siege of Tientsin and Admiral Seymour's attempt to relieve the Peking Legations, comprising the Adventures of Gerald Wood, and minor passages in the lives of Mr. Wang and Jugatai the Tartar." Red cloth w/tipped-on colour illustration in gilt border to front cover, tipped-on colour illustration to spine, gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 379 pages, illustrated w/eight full-colour illustrations and one map. Moderately worn corners/spine ends, some edgewear, soil to back cover, previous owner's name to front end paper, front hinge beginning. Internally tight..
- Bookseller Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
- Illustrator Cyrus Cuneo
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - About Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition Early Reprint.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton / H&S
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1910
- Size Small octavo
- Keywords NOISBN, BOXER REBELLION, CHINA, CHINESE, CYRUS CUNEO, UPRISING, RIGHTEOUS HARMONY SOCIETY, IMPERIALISM, ANTI-IMPERIALISM, MISSIONARY, MISSIONARIES, MANCHU, QING DYNASTY, SOCIETY OF AND HARMONIOUS FISTS, ADMIRAL SEYMOUR, PEKING LEGATION
- Size Small octavo