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New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1932. Reprint of May 1969 . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Kurt Wiese (Illustrator). EX-LIB; library slip removal scar to fEP. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Illustrated, tangerine linen boards/NF. DJ/NF w/loss to front inner flap; under library mylar. First published 1932; this is a 1969 reprint. Winner of the Newbery Award (1933) and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960). .First novel (1932) from children's author and Methodist missionary to China, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1892 - 1958). Set in pre-World War II China in the city of Chungking, Szechuan --- the city of hills above the Three Gorges, dominated by warlords, secret societies, bandits, hoodlums, opium, penetration of Western ideas, and by 1937, the wartime capitol of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Story of how Young Fu, whose father was less than diligent, is taken under the wings of, and adopted by, a coppersmith whose finds him worthy. World order of western China near a century ago.
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- Title YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- Author Lewis
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- Edition Reprint of May 1
- Publisher Holt Rinehart And Winston Inc, New York, NY
- Date 1932
- ISBN 9780030354359
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YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
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