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Birdless Summer
de Han Suyin
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien
- Librería
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1968. Hardcover. Good. 1968. First Edition. 347 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Child's drawing has been taped onto front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1698677045LEE
- Título
- Birdless Summer
- Autor
- Han Suyin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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