Elsie mccormick (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: New. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight.…

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 114 pages. 8.00x5.40x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: Very Good. The books dust jacket is in very good condition with minor shelf ware such as scuffs and scratches, otherwise the content is in very good condition.

xiv + 114pp, glossary, hardback in dustjacket, very good. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia in those far-off days - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight. "This is my favorite book on old Shanghai by a long margin." Graham Earnshaw, author of Tales of Old Shanghai Who is Elsie McCormick? Ms McCormick was an American who published a book called lived in Shanghai for some years in the 1920s, and published a book called Audacious Angles on China in 1923, which included the first version of the Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai baby. A third edition of the Unexpurgated Diary was subsequently published as a stand-alone book in Shanghai by the Chinese American Publishing Co in 1927. By the 1930s, Elsie was back in the United States writing for the New Yorker magazine, which is all the confirmation anyone needs of the quality of a writer's work.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextThis wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eye.

Hardback. Zustand: New. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight.…

Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. ii, 99 pp. Original boards with lettering in black to front board. Leaves age-darkened. Clean copy. 8vo.

New York/ London, D. Appleton and Company, 1923, 1st ed., XI,(1),302,(2) pag., original gilt cloth.

Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Shanghai edition. "The ups and downs of dwelling in the Far East as seen from the intimate viewpoint of a Shanghai baby - a vision of the East that is altogether laughable and delightful". Very good in a very good dust jacket with a short closed tear. 20x13.5 cm. [6], 98 pp. Orange boards, black cover title. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Chinese American Publishing Co., 1922. First Edition. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has moderate shelfwear, corners and spine ends bumped, top of spine is split, toned - especially on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 7.5 x 5", stiff red wraps, gilt lettering on cover, 98pp + epilogue. Covers soiled, worn, rubbed with tiny paint spots, offsetting to endpapers, else contents very good condition. FIRST EDITION.

New York 1923, Appleton. Blue cloth, very good, 305p., glosary, 13.b.w. photos. FIRST EDITION Humorous vignettes of life in China by an American woman, a Shanghai resident. Covers rickshaws, trams, trains, luggage, mysteries, customs, suicide, jade, sing-song girls, shopping in all the best places & comments on life in China. Great. …

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], ii,98, [2]; original limp red morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover; upper joint rubbed; very good, sound and clean. Ostensibly a diary March 29 to July 7 in an unknown year, but apparently this is a work of fiction. McCormick (1894-1962) was a native of San Francisco and began writing for school newspapers at the age of 11. A graduate of the University of California, she went to China for the Interchurch Movement and while there wrote a column for The China Press, material from which appears here in this book. She died in 1962 in Switzerland. Only two of this first edition in OCLC: Stanford and San Francisco Public Library.…