[Signed] The China Mission Year Book: Being ""The Christian Movement in China"" 1912 [First Edition Signed by Noted Religious Scholar Isaac Taylor Head

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Rare hardback copyright 1912 SIGNED BY NOTED CHINA-RELIGION SCHOLAR ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND; first 1912 edition, third year of publication; ""Isaac Taylor Headland was born in Freedom, Pennsylvania. In 1888 he graduated from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio then received a degree from Boston University School of Theology, where he was ordained in 1890. That October he arrived in China as a missionary under the auspices of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. He was posted in Beijing and served as a professor of science at Peking University (1890 1907) and as president of the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou (1901 14). He married Marian Sinclair, a practicing physician in Beijing, in 1894. Headland was able to write about court life in China through her connections with female patients there. On his return to the United States, Headland taught comparative religion at Mount Union College (1914 37)""; This book was Professor Headland's personal copy, signed on front free end-paper (see photo); withdrawal from Mount Union University Library with usual stamps and stickers; tight, square text block in brown cloth boards with gilt design and lettering; sunning to spine and top edge of rear board; a few instances of light underlining in pencil found; approximately 500 pages with fold-out charts plus appendices B-30.