Confessions of a China-Hand.
by FARQUHARSON, RONALD
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
London.: Hodder and Stoughton.. 1950.. Endpaper maps, 224pp, first and last leaves and edges lightly foxed, original green cloth marked and worn, lettering on spine illegible. Contents clean and sound. Reading copy. Well observed anecdotes of I.C.I. businessman's life in China during the 1920s. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180460
- Title
- Confessions of a China-Hand.
- Author
- FARQUHARSON, RONALD
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1950.
- Keywords
- China, History, Literature, Travel Writing, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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Asia Bookroom
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- Spine
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- Foxed
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