Letters to a Chinese Official: Being a Western View of Eastern Civilization
by BRYAN, William Jennings
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. Pale grey paper over boards with paper front board label. viii, 97pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn, while tight and internally fine and bright. Handsome first edition of this response to the 1903 book "Letters from a Chinese Official," in which this versatile politician/orator/lawyer (just returned from a much-reported 1905 world tour) takes that anonymous author to task. This unique copy bears a choice addition: Inset into the front board is a modern (ca. 1970s) facsimile of a Bryan campaign button for the 1900 presidential election. Bryan "The Great Commoner" ran for president three times (1896, 1890, 1908) after serving Nebraska in Congress (1891-95) and before serving as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State (1913-15). Laid into this copy is the tiny informational leaflet with which this facsimile button was issued and, ironically, the publisher's promotional leaflet for "The Meaning of Good" by G. Lowes Dickinson (British political scientist who authored the 1903 "Letters from a Chinese Official"). A most unusual copy!
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49689
- Title
- Letters to a Chinese Official: Being a Western View of Eastern Civilization
- Author
- BRYAN, William Jennings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
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- Books; Americana;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...