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The Innocent Dreamers
by Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1963. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: VG; closed tears, chipping at head and heel; rubbing to covers. Red cloth boards and spine with bright yellow lettering on spine and front board. 382 pp. A best-selling novelists latest novel about China's evolution into Communism. A panoramic novel beginning in 1912 and ending in the indefinite present centered on a romance contained in an interracial marriage. Through her characters the dramatic struggle of a great people enter the modern world and leaving the old behind gives the feeling of a terrible debasement of the soul of the Chinese people in accepting the Western doctrine of Communism. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002679
- Title
- The Innocent Dreamers
- Author
- Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- CHINA, COMMUNISM, SUN YAT SEN, CHIANG KAI SHEK, MAO TSE TUNG, COMMUNIST UPRISING IN NATIONALIST PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF MANCHU DOMINATION, CHINESE DEMOCRACY
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Chipping
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...