By the City of the Long Sand: A Tale of New China
New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 329 pp. 16 illustrated plates by E.F. Ward. Black cloth with gilt lettering in striking wraparound color illustrated dust jacket. Engraved bookplate for Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason (1869-1942), a Californian Catholic priest, educationalist, historian and collector of books and photographs. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Item #23025
Alice Tisdale Hobart's (1882–1967) second novel, a vivid semi-autobiographical portrait of 1920s China drawn from her own expatriate years as the wife of an oil executive in Changsha, Hunan Province—nicknamed the "City of the Long Sand" for its sprawling Yangtze River beaches—where she immersed in the turbulent clash of Western influence and revolutionary fervor during the Nationalist era.
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