The Chinese Looking Glass: The Most Illuminating Book Yet Written on China and Her Enigmatic People
by Bloodworth, Dennis
- Used
- first
- Condition
- near fine: red topstain, some discoloration to deckled edge of text block, fading to boards, minor shelfwear, else fine./very good: age discoloration, small closed tear back cover near spine. NOT price clipped ($6.95)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1967. first edition. hardcover. near fine: red topstain, some discoloration to deckled edge of text block, fading to boards, minor shelfwear, else fine./very good: age discoloration, small closed tear back cover near spine. NOT price clipped ($6.95). Octavo 432pp. stated first printing. from rear cover: [This is a book about China and her people, the "canny, pragmatic, hard-working, sensitive, often excitable, and sometimes deplorably stupid people who in the past have been dismissed humiliatingly in the West as the 'Heathen Chinese with the Inscrutable Face.'"The Western conception of the Chinese, Mr. Bloodworth goes on to say, is like "a dog-eared poker hand of unrelated cards, most of them left over from the last century.]. #00269.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 262
- Title
- The Chinese Looking Glass
- Author
- Bloodworth, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine: red topstain, some discoloration to deckled edge of text block, fading to boards, minor shelfwear, else fine.
- Jacket Condition
- very good: age discoloration, small closed tear back cover near spine. NOT price clipped ($6.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- politics, history, china
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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