The Three Daughters of Madame Liang: A Novel of China Today
by BUCK, Pearl S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The John Day Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Stated second impression of the author's novel, centered around a Shanghai restauranteur and her daughters. --- In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped rising-sun-over-farm image and titling on cover and spine. In unclipped jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, firm copy. Dust jacket with plenty of tears and chips (some tape-repaired), otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages .
Synopsis
Madame Liang moves to America and brings her three daughters along to raise them there while running a successful restaurant. China, now controlled by The People's Republic, calls two of her daughters back to work for their country, where they must find themselves and fit in with the structure of the New China.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80953
- Title
- The Three Daughters of Madame Liang: A Novel of China Today
- Author
- BUCK, Pearl S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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Littleton, Colorado
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....