The red boards are bumped at the edges and spine strip is rubbed, else a clean, solidly bound copy. George Aylwin (sic) Hogg was a British adventurer. He was a graduate of Oxford University in economics. He is known as a hero in China for saving 60 orphaned boys during the Second Sino-Japanese War, (Wikipedia) Rewi Alley, Lùyì Àilí, QSO, MM, was a New Zealand-born writer, educator, political activist, revolutionary, social reformer, potter, and member of the Communist Party of China. (Wikipedia).