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To China and Back
by Bredsdorff, Jan ; Translated from the Danish by Alice Roughton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394507061
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507064
- Seller
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First American Edition. Originally published in Denmark as ""Revolution"" with copyright 1979. Tiny red stamp of a house on top text block. Hard cover in very good condition with yellow boards and off-white spine cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Boards show light shelf wear with dust dulling; about 5 vertical inches of light foxing to the spine cloth on front; light warp to front board. Gift inscription at top of front free end paper, no other writing in text. Text block otherwise clean & tight; no markings to note. Includes a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages glossy black & white photographs. 207 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; has been price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Jan Bredsdorff is a young Danish author who has written five books on China, having lived there on and off from 1965 through 1977. His latest book [To China and Back], however, is the first to show what it has felt like to be in China during the recent years of constant and unexpected change.""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000286
- Title
- To China and Back
- Author
- Bredsdorff, Jan ; Translated from the Danish by Alice Roughton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394507061
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507064
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- China, Jan Bredsdorff, China - Description and travel, Travel, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; History of Asia & China & Japan;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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