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Midnight
by Tun, Mao
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1979. Book. Illus. by Yeh Chien-yu, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards with crisp white lettering on cover, beige cloth spine with black title box and horizontal line decoration. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean and unmarked. Sewn-in cloth page marker. Illustrated by Yeh Chien-yu. 532 pages + "About the Author." Clean dust jacket has light edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. One of the most famous novels of the celebrated contemporary Chinese writer Mao Tun, is set in the 1930s when china was still a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. Translated into English by Hsu Meng-hsiung and Mr. A. C. Barnes..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035058
- Title
- Midnight
- Author
- Tun, Mao
- Illustrator
- Yeh Chien-yu, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Foreign Languages Press
- Place of Publication
- Peking
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- NOVEL, MAO TUN, CHINA, CHINESE LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- China;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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