Search Results: son of heaven by princess der ling

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in blue cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is solidly bound and clean inside and out. Blue boards are slightly scuffed, with faded spine and wear to tip of one corner. Ownership line on front free endpage dated 1935 from Louise Dudley Brooks, a collector of children's books. A biography of Kwang Hsu, Son of Heaven, whom the author, a Manchu, calls one of the most misunderstood emperors of China. Frontispiece photo. 8vo. 248 pp. .

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French in Paris. She returned to China for several years in the early 20th century and married an American. Following the death of Cixi, she emigrated to the United States, where she wrote at least eight books (this was her last) and taught Chinese at UC Berkeley. 248 pages. First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the last text page). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in jacket.