Stanton mary bulkley (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: acceptable. Cover image may vary. Cover is worn with peeling. Item has staining. Binding is split. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. INCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page as follows: "To Ron & Terry | with love & blessings! | Mary B. Stanton." 8vo. (23 cm.) vi, 1-345[1]p. Black and white photo of the author on the title page plus very many black and white captioned photos and one black and white map of the area in Thailand where the author lived. Appendix I: Reflections on My Family History by Edna Bruner Bulkley; Appendix II: Bulkley Descendants Compiled by Mary Bulkley StgantonAppendix III: Glossary/Index. Red wrappers printed in yellow with a color photo on the front cover of a reproduction of one of the leather cut-out figures used in the Nang-talung shadow plays of the Ramanaya stories and with two black and white photos on the rear wrapper, one of Edna Bruner in 1903, age 20, the other of the author as a mature woman. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, leading edge of front wrapper just barely beginning to curl up, rear wrapper corners square and flat, all photos and map in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. "My mother used to hold her dinner guests spellbound as she told dramatic tales of her early years in Siam, as Thailand was then called. We lived in Trang in the Malay Peninsula near the border. My father ran the Presbyterian Mission hospital --one of only three doctors in the whole peninsula. Mother had gone to Siam in 1903, three years after she graduated from high school, to work in a missionary girls' school. Through the next 31 years and the reigns of five Siamese kings Siam was her home. She married Father in 1910. They had 11 children - I was number six - and Siam was our home." [from the Preface]. Inscribed by Author(s).…