Firecracker land. Pictures of the Chinese world for younger readers ... with illustrations by Lucille Douglas
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Book club edition, published the same year as the first by the same company, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 351, [1]; text illustrations; yellow pictorial cloth, top edge red-stained; spot of foxing to half title, text otherwise clean and sound, near fine in a chipped and sunned pictorial dust jacket. Florence Ayscough was born in China and had a career there and in Chicago as a Sinologist. She translated Chinese literature and wrote books introducing China to younger audiences, of which this is one. While in China she met and became friends with the artist Lucille Douglas, who provided the many illustrations in the book. Item #72703
Price: $30.00
