Lane eternal stability (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Endpaper maps, 479pp, endpapers browned in places, Bon Marche stamp with prices of the cost of borrowing this book crossed out upper corner and a number in ink, otherwise very good and clean in like dustjacket. Novel covering three generations of the House of Ho - in time a bare 50 years from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 to the Communist takeover in 1950.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.95 price intact). Published by Crown, 1962. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed on half title page. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with edgewear and small tears. An excellent, signed copy of this important novel discussing Chinese history. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by K.C. Wu on the half title page and inscribed "With best wishes." 479 pp. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over yellow spine cloth lettered in orange, cartographic endpapers. Near Fine with light wear, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, and creasing and small stain to spine panel; a few archival mending tissue repairs to verso. An attractive copy of the novel by K.C. Wu (Wu Kuo-chen), an American-educated Chinese politician who served as Mayor of Shanghai after the Second World War. After the Communist victory in 1949 he relocated with the Nationalist government to Taiwan, where he was appointed Governor but came into conflict with more conservative party members. A well-known figure who appeared on the cover of Time magazine, the Governor and his family were eventually forced to leave Taiwan for the United States, where Wu became a professor of Chinese history. The Lane of Eternal Stability, his first novel, charts the course of a decayed gentry family over fifty years of turbulent change. Signed. …