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The Old Sow in the Back Room: An Englishwoman in Japan
by Sergeant, Harriet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0719551730
- ISBN 13
- 9780719551734
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: John Murray.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue/grey cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to boards. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, black, red and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £17.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, considerable annotation and underlining to most pages throughout, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, a few pages have been turned down. GOOD.* Illustrations: None* Pages: 208 pp. text.* Description: The Japanese manufacture myths as efficiently as they do televisions, and are as adept at selling them to men who visit their country. Since it is men who write most books on Japan, those myths are perpetuated in the West. Women, though, do not count in that most foreign of countries, and no one is interested in selling myths to them. Harriet Sergeant, who lived in Tokyo for six years, took advantage of this to slip behind the scenery.* An GOOD text copy of the 1st/1st with lots of annotation (doesn't prevent enjoyment) and with minimal age and reading wear.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2393
- Title
- The Old Sow in the Back Room: An Englishwoman in Japan
- Author
- Sergeant, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0719551730
- ISBN 13
- 9780719551734
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 208
- Date Published
- 1994-09-15
- Size
- 16.5 x 2.5 x 24 cm
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Crisp
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
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