Moment in Peking
by Lin Yutang
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Fair
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; variant red cloth cover; no prior owner marks; some age tone to text pages, darkening along gutters of paste-downs; tight bind; clean cloth cover, vivid titling; little corner bump; dj only fair to poor: some tape repairs to chipped flap folds on dj verso, chipping at spine ends and corners,tears, small nicks, creasing; flap price clipped B18
Synopsis
Moment in Peking is a historical novel originally written in English by the Chinese American author Lin Yutang. The novel covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1247
- Title
- Moment in Peking
- Author
- Lin Yutang
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Day
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...