[MUSLIM CHILDREN IN CHINA] Etrapimdaki dunya (Miveler) = 我周围的世界（水果）/ Wô zhôuwêi de shîjiê (Shuîguô). [i.e., The World around me: Fruits]

DAVUT, HELME (Edited by). Xinjiang Shinhôa Printinghouse, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (People's Republic of China), 1992. Original illustrated wrappers. Oblong foolscap 8vo. (12,5 x 18,5 cm). Bilingual Uyghur and Chinese. [2], [41], [1] p., 41 colour offset lithograph. A fine copy. First and likely only edition of the book on fruits published for Muslim children in China. Compiled and edited by a Uyghur author, it was published bilingually in Uyghur and Chinese in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Produced in alignment with the educational framework of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1990s, the book notably avoids any religious content. It includes colour plates illustrating 41 different fruits, accompanied by descriptive texts detailing the geographical regions where these fruits grow, their cultivation conditions, and related information. This book comes with a distinguished provenance, originating from the collection of Swedish diplomat and Turkologist Gunnar Valfrid J