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Moment In Peking, A Chinese Novel
by Lin Yutang
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/poor
- Seller
-
Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket bound in publisher's variant black cloth (John Day, 1939); no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages but offsetting present to end papers; tight bind; cloth cover has little rub to panels, corners and spine ends, bright gilt titling; dj only fair to poor: sun staining along spine, tears, chips top and bottom edges and along flap folds (several tape repairs on dj verso); flap price present B17
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918557
- Title
- Moment In Peking, A Chinese Novel
- Author
- Lin Yutang
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Day
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
DrPanglossBooks
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Prospective buyers whose addresses lie outside the United States should inquire about postage charges, as those posted are inaccurate. All books priced at 40 USD and higher require Priority International Mail service. Sorry, no exceptions, as too many problems have arisen using first class international postage.
About the Seller
DrPanglossBooks
Biblio member since 2008
Uncasville, Connecticut
About DrPanglossBooks
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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