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  • Delivery Time: 5 - 10 business days
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  • Product Condition: used

Product Description

1938 1st edition.
255pp.
Very Good/Very Good.
Black decorative cloth boards with very slight rubbing to edges.
Contents clean and tight but for very slight spotting.
Owner's name and stamps inside half-title, to rear of frontis and to reverse of final page.
Nice DW with minor loss, a few small tears/crease, minor chipping to edges, slight scuffing/browning.
Decorative endpapers.
Colour plate at frontis, B&W illustrations by Kurt Wiese throughout.
An American schoolboy accompanies his father to Shanghai when he takes up a post there.
He becomes friendly with a Chinese country boy who introduces him to Chinese life.
An interesting portrait of life in China during the inter-war period.
Written for children.
Scarce in this edition with DW.

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