First impression
Subtitle: a China diary : Jim Avent's travels from Cheung-Chow to Sian-Fu in 1920
Contributors: Nance, Mayna Avent, author, publisher; Buchanan, Margaret Ruth, book designer
Publisher: Mayna Avent Nance
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Notes: "Designed by Margaret Ruth Buchanan"

With mounted reproductions of black-and-white photographs

Rare Book copy: No. 17 of 30, signed by Mayna Avent Nance and Margaret Buchanan

Includes bibliographical references (page 30 of book one)

Both volumes with accordion-fold structure in cloth-covered boards with marbled paper pastedowns; upper cover of book one with paper label containing title in Chinese calligraphy; book two can be opened and read from two directions, with accordion-folded sheet printed on both sides; issued in cloth-covered enclosure lined with marbled paper, including a cord, attached to metal coin and tassle, which wraps around a knot to hold the flap of the enclosure in place