Yards silk (7 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Nine Yards of Silk and Three Pieces of Jade This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 173 pages. Novel set in Wellington. Sharmila, immobilised by the mysterious disappearanc e of her brother, finally seeks to gather the strands of her life and try to esc ape the past. Six Yards of Silk is a mesmerising story of dislocation and redemp tion.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 173 pages. Cover worn Novel set in Wellington. Sharmila, immobilised by the mysterious disappearanc e of her brother, finally seeks to gather the strands of her life and try to esc ape the past. Six Yards of Silk is a mesmerising story of dislocation and redemp tion.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 207pp. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions. (59/4).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in 1929 lower Manhattan against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, The Green Pheasant is narrated by Arthur 'Artie' Lum, a twenty-five-year-old native-born night manager at his uncle's Pell Street chop suey restaurant. After Artie inadvertently chases off two thieves while brandishing a soup ladle and wearing an apron made of leftover green silk, newspaper reporter Whitey Fallon sensationalizes the event into an urban legend about a masked vigilante called 'the Green Pheasant'. Realizing that a paperless mythical figure can safely protect a community that cannot risk interacting with the law or immigration authorities, Auntie Fong Yuet-sim and switchboard operator Winnie Choy organize the 'Pheasant Committee of the Four Streets' to manage and deploy the rumor. The situation escalates when the Bowery & Empire Improvement Trust hires professional arsonist Nils Bergstrom to set fire to local tenements, planning to frame the fictional vigilante to collect massive insurance payouts from investigator Dorothea Twill. To defeat the trust's frame-job, the Committee manufactures eleven identical suits out of green silk and coordinates eleven simultaneous public appearances of the Green Pheasant across Chinatown during a tourist tour on October 28, 1929. This impossible stunt voids the trust's fraudulent insurance claims right before the Wall Street stock market crash of Black Tuesday dismantles the corporation entirely.…

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.