Voice of Asia
by Michener James A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Book Club Edition. Previous owner's name neatly written on half title page. Blue buckram , decorative gilt and red asiatic edge. Free-endpapers are maps, deckled fore-edge. Clean and tight copy. DJ is intact but has chipping on the spine and flap hinges, also a coffee ring on front cover. From the cover" At first-hand an acknowledged authority examines & evaluates in human terms the changed outlook of the asiatic world toward the West." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 245 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 982
- Title
- Voice of Asia
- Author
- Michener James A
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Culture; Historical Fiction; Asia; Fiction, Historical;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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