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YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
de Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1957. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Pp 256(last blank), coloured frontispiece, black & white title page vignette and text illustrations (some full page), glossary of Chinese words, notes; pictorial boards, slightly foxed, top fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, with date stamp near bottom edge of back panel, the edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; George G. Harrap, London, 1957. U.K. edition, tenth impression. *Originally published in America in 1932; winner of the Newbery Medal 1933. The illustrator, Kurt Wiese (1887-1974) lived in China for six years and is best known for The Story about Ping.
Sinopsis
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze is a book by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1932. The story revolves around Fu Yuin-fah, the son of a widow from the countryside of western China, who wishes to become a coppersmith in the big city on the Yangtze River, Chungking. With the help of many people, including an old scholar and a white missionary, his goal is eventually attained.
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- Librería
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 142668
- Título
- YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- Autor
- Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- George G. Harrap & Company Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957
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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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
