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Empress Orchid
by Min, Anchee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618068872
- ISBN 13
- 9780618068876
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0618068872 . Signed by Min on the title page. A promotional copy with publisher's letter laid in. A slight bump to the bottom corner and the heel of the spine. The dust jacket has a touch of creasing to the front panel. The author re-creates the life of the last empress of the Manchu dynasty, from her beginnings in a poor family to her becoming concubine to the emperor of China. ; 336 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Empress Orchid (2004) is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress Dowager. Names within the story are different in spelling but retain the same pronunciation - allowing the reader to identify each relevant character to his or her real life counterpart.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17100
- Title
- Empress Orchid
- Author
- Min, Anchee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618068872
- ISBN 13
- 9780618068876
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0618068872, FICTION, HISTORICAL, Cixi,; Empress Dowager of China,; 1835-1908; Fiction.; Empresses; , Fiction.; China; History; Guangxu, 1875-1908; Fiction.; Biographical , fiction., Anchee Min, Signed, FIRST Edition, Biographical fiction China Chine Cixi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian Literature;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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