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Moment in Peking. A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life SIGNED
1939réf. 55803New York: John Day Company 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good. Large Octavo. 13 815pp. Original black cloth with gilt Chinese lettering on cover tan lettering on brown leather label of spine; in original illustrated dustjacket with black lettering mylar protected. Signed on front free endpaper. Novel on China in the authentic manner of Chinese novelists. "The scene is a moving panorama of contemporary China covering nearly forty years from the terror of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 to the bitter excitement of the present Japanese invasion a period of great social change and adjustments in the lives of a teeming humanity." Publisher Dustjacket with light wear along edges small chips and closed tears two small chips in center of dustjacket back at top and bottom edge . Binding very lightly rubbed and two inch scuff at bottom foredge of back cover. This lightly rubbed. John Day Company hardcover
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