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MILN, LOUISE JORDAN In a Yun-Nan Courtyard
Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Cover edge wear, spine faded, pages toned, foxing on endpapers and insides of front cover, moderate shelf wear. "A man in Vienna was fondling his fiddle; a girl in Poughkeepsie was gathering violets; an old missionary in a far part of far China -- the only white man for many an accessible mile -- sat in his sunny courtyard reading a time-yellowed silk of Chang Ts'ai-P'in's. A bandit of Sze-ch'uen was sharpening his knife. None of them could have believed how soon their lives were to tangle. Unless, perhaps, the missionary might -- for he was old; life and thirty odd years in China had taught him much; and he knew that on earth anything may happen, especially in China.".
Offered for US$ 6.80 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 1502372
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