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Twentieth Century China
by Clubb, O. Edmund
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing First Edition per same date (1964) on Title Page & Copyright Page with no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, black Chinese letters on front board, and black panels with silver gilt lettering on spine. Small white spot on front board. Top stained red. Former owner's name in ink on top back of front board. Contains a section of 4 leaves / 8 pages of 16 illustrations / b&w photographs. Also five maps. Less than 40 pages in the last chapters have unobtrusive ink lines / brackets in margins / underlining with two or three tiny margin notes. 470 numbered pages; concludes with Section of Notes to the chapters, Section of a Bibliography Note, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in good condition with shelf & edge wear; chips to head & heel of spine and corners; rubbing; several scratches; age toning to the white of the back of jacket & flaps; not price clipped. * From the front flap, ""One of the great needs today is for a clear picture of the history of China in the twentieth century. Mr. Clubb's book is a political history of China from the dynastic era to the present Communist period. It deals with domestic developments as well as with foreign relations - especially American, Japanese, and Russian - wherever they have an important bearing on domestic evolution."" See third photo: back jacket - info on the author.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000271
- Title
- Twentieth Century China
- Author
- Clubb, O. Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- History, China, China - History 1900 to 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of Asia & China & Japan;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
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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