SWALLOW CLIFF: A Novel of Village Life in China.
by Drummond, Ellen L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, a bit of chipping to base of spine of dj.)/very good
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago:: Moody Press, , (1961). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, a bit of chipping to base of spine of dj.). First edition. A religious tale set in the little hamlet of Swallow Cliff on the Yangste River by a woman who the daughter of missionaries to China, brought up there, and became a missionary herself. Illustrated by the author with black and white drawings throughout, Epilogue by Christiana Tsai. 284 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61279
- Title
- SWALLOW CLIFF: A Novel of Village Life in China.
- Author
- Drummond, Ellen L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, a bit of chipping to base of spine of dj.)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Moody Press,
- Place of Publication
- Chicago:
- Date Published
- (1961)
- Keywords
- Chinese rural life, Christianity, missionaries,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christian fiction;
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