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Birdless Summer: China: Autobiography, History
de Han Suyin
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good/Good
- Librería
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1968. First Edition Thus. 347 pages. Purple illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographic plates to mid-section. Maps near front. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges.
Sinopsis
Birdless Summer is a biography by Han Suyin. It covers the years 1938 to 1948, her work as a midwife in Chengtu and then going to London with her husband, who was a military attache there. Also her training as a doctor, the start of the last phase of the Chinese Civil War, in which her husband died fighting for the Kuomintang. She gives a vivid picture of the final years of Kuomintang rule in mainland China, and of reactions to the Japanese invasion.
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- Librería
- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1636098098ADA
- Título
- Birdless Summer: China: Autobiography, History
- Autor
- Han Suyin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good/Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
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- Cloth
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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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
