Imperial Woman
by Buck Pearl S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: John Day Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. B007EYEJ8E . Orange hard covers with gilt titles & illustration to the front cover and spine. Spine and corner bumping, tightly bound with an unmarked interior. In very good condition. "An historical novel about the last Empress of China, in youth a beautiful concubine, in middle life a brilliant strategist, in old age a goddess. " ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages .
Synopsis
Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Ci-xi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade-Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908 (before which the novel ends). The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In the novel Nobel Prize winner Pearl S.
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- Seller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21981
- Title
- Imperial Woman
- Author
- Buck Pearl S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- B007EYEJ8E
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction; Fiction, Classic;
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- Jacket
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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....
- 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...