fulcher helen (9 risultati)

Condizione: very_good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Clean bright copy with glossy boards as printed, Signed and Inscribed by the Publisher, the grand-daughter of the subject!

Paper Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. B & W Photographs (illustratore). First Printing. Clean and tight with minimal wear. Lacks dust jacket; 275p., including appendix and notes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

hardcover, Condizione: Very Good, Tiffin Press, NH c.1995, 1st. 8vo. glossy boards, 275pp. F $.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Biography (by his eldest daughter) of this doctor, a college and Olympic athlete, and a deeply religious man, who spent most of his life serving in China - from 1907 to 1912 and in Shanghai from 1914 to 1942, including under the Japanese occupation, and following repatriation to the U.S. during World War II, he returned to China after the war, " helping in the monumental task of revitalizing the St. John's University medical department, coping with wartime devastation, shortages of money, fuel, food, supplies, and the vagaries of an emerging communist government." Photographs. List of graduates of St John's Medical College, Notes. 275 pp. Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Slight fading of spine and spine edge of book is only defect ; Glossy pictorial paper covered boards. Extensive presentation inscription on the occasion of a 50th anniversary reunion of the alumni of St. John's Medical School. Inscribed by Martha McCracken Howard, one of Josiah McCracken's daughters. ; 276 pages; Joe was an All-American football star and a medal winner in the shot put and the hammer throw in the 1900 Olympics. But it was as a medical missionary to China, under the auspices of the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania that he found his calling. He made his most lasting mark [leading] the medical college of St. John's University and [helping] Chinese refugees who flooded into Shanghai after the Japanese invasion. [T]he book is just as much . about his wife Helen and the trials and joys of raising eight children. It is also the story of their third daughter, Mary, who was crippled by polio before she was two and who fought courageously for over thirty years to live a normal life. Taken together, they become the story of a large, close-knit missionary family in China during the turbulent years of 1907-1941.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 276 pages, hardcover. Insight into China, its history, and the heart, mind and family life of devoted Christian physician. Mild rubbing to boards. Faint soiling to rear panel. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy. Record # 952572.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Photo Reproductions (illustratore). First Edition, First Printing. binding very good, no other markings except inscription and signature. S13 2. Signed and Inscribed By Author.