The Patriot
by Pearl S. Buck
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939 Grosset & Dunlap, New York. 1939. Hardcover. Reprint of the John Day original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slightly bumped upper tips, head, and tail. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); chipping and small missing pieces at head and tail; light wear at tip covers. Rose cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine and front cover. 372 pp 8vo. A novel of modern China centering on a young Chinese from a rich family who sends their son away during the revolution to Japan where marries a Japanese girl and lives a quiet, ordered life almost forgetting China until World War II begins. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006552
- Title
- The Patriot
- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Pearl Buck, China, Japan, World War II, Chinese Revolution, Romance, marriage,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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