mcclure scott munroe (5 resultados)

Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Second Printing. (x) 409 pp. Signed by Robert B. McClure on the title page. Brown patterned boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some nicks around the edges; previous owner's name on the upper right of the title page; the subjects signature on the lower left of the title page; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: First Decade; American Interlude; Return to China; Life with Father; The Higher Education of Bob McClure; The Intern; Loa Ming-yuan; Weihwei; Hwaiking and the Path to Chinghua; News from Home; Religious Background; The Tent; Loa Ming-yuan and the Warlord of Hwaiking; Moment of Truth; Wedding Bells; Exodus; Taiwan the Beautiful; Assault on Edinburgh; Return to Hwaiking; Loving Lotus and Others; The Hwaiking Rural Medical System; Quicksand; Times of a Red Cross Man; Number One Hankow Lady; On Tour; The Burma Road with a Bishop; Trucking Along; Oh Canada; The China Convoy; Precious Mountain; Raid on Chengchow; General Ming-yuan McCurdle; The Return of Hankey; The City of Jade and (a=r+p); Plague Valley; General McCurdle and the Relief of Honan; Requiem for Hwaiking; and The Last China Year of Bob McClure; followed by McClure-China Chronological Table. Size: 8vo. Signed by Subject. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: New.

[0-919000-12-6] 1977. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 409pp. Signed by Robert B. McClure. Map endpapers, chronology. The dust jacket is edgeworn and creased with a small chip and small closed tears at the top of the spine, there is a previous owner's incription on the title page and there is a piece of card paper attached to page 258. "From the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 through to the final Communist victories in 1949, China was in the midst of social upheaval, revolution, and war. That half-century of change parallels the early career of Bob McClure, the United Church of Canada's extraordinary missionary surgeon who was born just after his parents escaped from the Boxer Rebellion and who was raised in China, educated in Canada and abroad, and returned to spend the first twenty-five years of his medical life in China". Biography of Bob McClure. Book about Boxer Rebellion. Locale: Canada; China. (Biography, Biography, Missionaries, Surgeons, United Church of Canada).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 409 pages. Dr. McClure's attractive signature upon half-title page. "This book started out to be a full biography of Dr. Bob McClure from his birth in 1900 up to the present time. It gradually transformed itself into something that may seem to fall halfway between an adventure story and a history of China through the first half of the twentieth century." - from Foreward. Prior owner's neatly written gift greetings upon half-title page which has a small piece cleanly clipped from top corner. Maps printed upon endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Excellent copy. Signed by Author(s).