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Description

Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this Bancroft Prize winning history of U.S.foreign policy in Asia during the period of crisis and conflict between China in the 1930s . Inscribed by Dorothy Borg to a previous owner on the front endpaper. Additionally, there's a handwritten, one-page letter from Dorothy Borg to the same previous affixed to the front paste down page. In the letter, Borg advises the prospective reader that the material might be hard going for a non-specialist and notes that she'd marked (circled in pencil) several chapters numbers in the table of contents as most readable for general readers. (Chapters 7, 13, and 17 are the most accessible chapters according to the author.) 674 pages, cloth. The book shows minimal sign of previous use. The dust jacket has some tanning and a couple shallow chips on the top edge.