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Burns & Oates,, 1949 Burns Oates, 1949. Hardcover light blue cloth. First edition no jacket xxii 257 pages with maps to eps and b/w photos, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. fading to spine and boards edges with light tanning to extreme pages edges but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

1949. First edition. xxii, 257pp., a map on the endpapers and many black and white illustrations. Agnes Mary Berkeley was born in Gloucestershire and in 1882 she entered the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and received the religious name Xavier. She spent 54 years in China, first in Kiangsi (Jiangxi) Province, and then at Ningpo (Ningbo), Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, drawn especially to the sick and poor. She rescued countless abandoned babies and organized young Chinese to design and weave silk and satin, thereby making them financially independent. In 1911, on Chou-shan (Zhoushan) Island, she developed House of Mercy, a model mission of charity, and she became known throughout the area as the Mother of the Orphans and the Poor. This mission, adjacent to the island where Chinese pilgrims visited the shrine of Kwan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, contained an orphanage, homes for old and infirm, and hospitals for the sick poor. With difficulty, she kept the mission open when the Japanese overran the area in World War II. She was buried in the mission garden. This biography was written at the request of the Sisters of Charity. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and some fading at both spine ends. There is a more noticeable patch of fading around the top spine corner and part of the top spine corner of the rear board where part of the wrapper is missing. There is light daing along about 1" of the top edge and 1/2" of the spine edge of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with an inscription dated 1949 on the back of the front free endpaper. The clipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and the spine is sunned. The corners are nicked with small pieces missing and small pieces are missing from the bottom of the spine. About 1/8" is missing from the top of the spine and a larger piece is missing from the top spine corner of the back of the wrapper. There are a few small tears on the edges and a tear of about 1" on the bottom rear corner.

1949. First Published. 257 pages. Blue and white dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Book is moderately bowed and forward leaning with moderate sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.