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The John Day Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1956. Fourth (4th) Printing (stated) of the First Edition. Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full tangerine cloth with gilt design with title and author on the front board, gilt design, title, etc., to spine, white, unmarked endpapers, and very slightly bumped corners. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 376 pages. 6"" x 8 1/2"". A fictionalized biography of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi (aka Cixi), who rose from the position of concubine to the Xianfeng Emperor to rule China alone from 1861 until her death in 1908, by the author who spent most of her life in China from her birth in 1892 until 1934.
