My Country and My People
by Lin Yutang
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: A John Day Book Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382 pages. First edition first printing with no additional printings noted. Corners are bumped. There is some light toning to the page edges. The previous owner used paperclips as bookmarks; these have left indents and some stains at the top of some of the pages. The jacket is clipped, but original price of $3.00 is still present. Dust jacket spine is faded and the jacket shows some chipping and tearing to the edges. Uncommon first printing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56186
- Title
- My Country and My People
- Author
- Lin Yutang
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- A John Day Book Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- China
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...