Good-Bye to Western Culture: Some Footnotes on East and West [UK title: How About Europe?]
by Norman Douglas
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good -
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],241pp. Jacket heavily restored with verso fully backed with wallpaper-like card stock and color touch-ups along extremities, spine panel toned and darkened with a few waterspots and text rather faded, corners gently tapped, boards bumped at spine ends, toning to endpapers, else a Very Good copy, albeit in overly sophisticated jacket.
Satirical exposé of India under colonial rule, written in response to reading Katherine Mayo's nativist diatribe Mother India (1927). Published a year prior in the UK as How About Europe?
Satirical exposé of India under colonial rule, written in response to reading Katherine Mayo's nativist diatribe Mother India (1927). Published a year prior in the UK as How About Europe?
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14267
- Title
- Good-Bye to Western Culture: Some Footnotes on East and West [UK title: How About Europe?]
- Author
- Norman Douglas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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