London: University of London Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Second printing (the first edition was in 1946) . 160 pages + frontis + plates + maps on endpapers. Brown cloth covers with red-brown lettering on spine and front board. Owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper. Minor spotting to page edges. Binding tight. 1/4" tear at head of dustwrapper spine. 3/4" closed tear at head of rear panel of dustwrapper. Front flap of dustwrapper is price-clipped. Dustwrapper uncommonly clean and bright. Dustwrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002441
Title: China: Her Life and Her People
Author: Cable, Mildred & Francesca French
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
Publisher: University of London Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1949
Keywords: China Tibet

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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