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Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet
by Mary Craig
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0006275001
- ISBN 13
- 9780006275008
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£7.49£5.24
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About This Item
London, UK: HarperCollins Publishers , 1992 HarperCollins Publishers, London, UK. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Published in Great Britain in 1992/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; several dogeared pages. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped (£17.95); slight wear to head, tail, and tips. Maroon cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 374 pp 8vo. Tibet was a self-standing nation until 1951 when the People's Republic of China, after a short war, transformed the country into a western province of the PRC. Since that time the Tibetan people have been starved, persecuted, and imprisoned by the PRC to bring them into submission. They are not a second class minority in their own nation; without a religion and a leader (Dalai Lama) in exile. Based on careful research and interviews the author tells the story of Tibet under Chinese occupation. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015069
- Title
- Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet
- Author
- Mary Craig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0006275001
- ISBN 13
- 9780006275008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- China, Tibet, People's Republic of China, oppression, war, starvation, Dalai Lama, Buddhism, Chinese oppression of Tibet, civil rights,
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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