HO-MING; Girl of New China by LEWIS, Elizabeth Foreman - 1934

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wiese, Kurt. 266 pp. with Notes and Glossary of Chinese Words. Illus. with B&W drawings; color frontis. Ex-Library copy with stamps, stickers, pocket. Jacket flaps taped to endpapers. Reinforced Library binding. Binding tight, text clean.

Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company. VG. 1934. Reissue. Hardcover. Early edition bound in black cloth with gold lettering and decorations . A Very Good copy in a Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Rubs to the b ook's spine tips and corners. Else clean, tight & unmarked. The dust j acket has chips to its corners. Fraying/chipping along the head and ba se of its spine. The front panel has tears and creases along its upper edge and wear along its lower edge. The rear panel is dust soiled and creased along its edges. A tear at the head of the spine has tape on its verso. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese with four color and eight black & white plates. Pictorial endpapers. .

London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935. 255p., hardcover, boards lightly scuffed and edgeworn, gift inscription on half-title page; a decent reading copy. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. A novel highlighting the changing status of women in China. Lewis, who had served as a Methodist missionary in China, was a Newbery Award-winning author of children's books.

Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kurt Wiese. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. The original price is clipped on the front flap. DJ is tattered along edges and also shows spotting and soiling. Black cloth boards underneath show little wear but there is some fading and spotting to the color, gilt design is still bright. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No signatures or bookplates, no handwriting, no library markings. Pages are mildly toned due to age but are clean.

Philadelphia:: John C. Winston Company,. Very Good. 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Wear along the joints of the front and rear boards, else very good in black cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. .

Philadelphia:: John C. Winston Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. B00005XGNY . First edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear to rear panel), price clipped dust jacket. .