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The Great Empress Dowager of China
by Sergeant, Philip W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£101.74
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co.,, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 344pp; Red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, top edge gilt, corners of boards slightly bent, slight wear to spine ends, boards square & bright with a few nicks, endpapers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, all photo plates present, Good+ condition. Biography of the Empress Dowager of China, Tze-Hi. Illustrated with b/w photographic plates.
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- Bookseller
- Book Happy Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014247
- Title
- The Great Empress Dowager of China
- Author
- Sergeant, Philip W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- biography china royalty empire imperial asia chinese history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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