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After Shanghai
by McLeay, Alison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0312142714
- ISBN 13
- 9780312142711
- Seller
-
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York:: St. Martin's Press, 1995. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp and unmarked. "First U.S. Edition" is so stated, with a complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Shanghai… in the twenties and thirties its name signified glamour, intrigue and bizarre self-indulgence. Born there into a wealthy English ship-owning dynasty, Clio Oliver has a childhood as cloistered and lavish as that of any princess. When her grandfather's death summons her to England, she's still a child, but has some idea that Daddy has a new friend -- one like those he used to know in China. Clio soon finds herself trapped between two cultures. As a married woman, she returns to Shanghai seeking the safe cocoon of her childhood -- only to find deceit, betrayal, and the threat of Japanese destruction. But everything changes in time, she learns, and what endures is the memory." . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Paul Wright full wrap-around jacket art. 8vo. 419pp..
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- Bookseller
- About Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005755
- Title
- After Shanghai
- Author
- McLeay, Alison
- Illustrator
- Paul Wright full wrap-around jacket art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312142714
- ISBN 13
- 9780312142711
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo. 419pp.
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- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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