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Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul
de Buck, Pearl S
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- very good: mild shelfwear to boards and spine, writing and stamp on FFEP, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, chipping with some loss, clipped.
- Librería
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: John Day, 1936. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild shelfwear to boards and spine, writing and stamp on FFEP, mild toning, text clean, binding tight./good: edge and corner wear, chipping with some loss, clipped.. 8vo 302pp. from front flap: "Companion volume to The Exile, which is a biography of the author's mother, Fighting Angel is a biography of her father. The extraordinary fact is that while these two lived together for forty years and had seven children, yet they lived utterly separate lives, so that the tale of what the man did and thought does not in the least duplicate the story of the woman." #01086.
Sinopsis
Pearl Buck wrote this biography of her father, an American missionary in China. Renamed Andrew in the book, Buck's father was sent out to China in 1879 just after graduating seminary school. He spent much of his time there translating the Bible into the various forms of Chinese to extend the reach of the mission.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1009
- Título
- Fighting Angel
- Autor
- Buck, Pearl S
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - very good: mild shelfwear to boards and spine, writing and stamp on FFEP, mild toning, text clean, binding tight.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good: edge and corner wear, chipping with some loss, clipped.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- first edition
- Editorial
- John Day
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1936
- Palabras clave
- biography, pearl s buck, nonfiction, first edition,
Términos de venta
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Miembro de Biblio desde 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
