MOMENT IN PEKING : A NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LIFE
de Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976
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New York: The John Day Company, 1939. Hardcover. Octavo, 815 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with black print. Boards in brown cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, light shelf wear. Text block has grey tinted top edge, shaken binding, cracked hinges, penciled notes on front flyleaf, tanning to endpapers. 1369639. FP New Rockville Stock.
Sinopsis
Moment in Peking is a historical novel originally written in English by the Chinese American author Lin Yutang. The novel covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.
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- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- 1369639
- Título
- MOMENT IN PEKING : A NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LIFE
- Autor
- Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976
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- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- The John Day Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1939
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
