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Admiral Yi Sun-Shin and his Turtleboat Armada. The first comprehensive account in English of the Resistance of Korea to the 16th century Japanese Invasion [subtitle from dj]. Revised Edition by Park, Yune-Hee - 1978

by Park, Yune-Hee

Admiral Yi Sun-Shin and his Turtleboat Armada. The first comprehensive account in English of the Resistance of Korea to the 16th century Japanese Invasion [subtitle from dj]. Revised Edition by Park, Yune-Hee - 1978

Admiral Yi Sun-Shin and his Turtleboat Armada. The first comprehensive account in English of the Resistance of Korea to the 16th century Japanese Invasion [subtitle from dj]. Revised Edition

by Park, Yune-Hee

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Seoul: The Han-Jin Publishing Company, 1978. Earliest successful ironclads, less prone to sink than those of the US Civil War. Expanded as well as revised; for changes made since 1973, see below. Book commences with a lengthy unpaginated photo section, then 263p with more plates, one folding, and several fullpage line maps, then an index @ 12p. Item is a 9.5x6 inch hardcover in creme boards gilt and rather pedestrian dust jacket. Signatures in the first quarter of book show slender gaps, a bad sign but we see no losses & just a touch of sag. Leaf that directly follows the ffep is rubber-stamped by a city coumcil instructing that book be discarded because of damage, which makes little sense, problem is less structural than aesthetic. We see nothing more to mention. A good to very good copy. "Prepared mainly for western readers..it was five years ago that this book was first introduced to both domestic and foreign readers. To be frank, the readership has been rather narrow, but warm enough to encourage a revised edition [in which] utmost effort was made to eliminate the type-setting errors and to provide a proper index at the back of the book [index also intended to be used as a Character Glossary].. another painstaking task was to add new maps and pictures to the present volume" [1973 issue had no maps].
  • Bookseller Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher The Han-Jin Publishing Company
  • Place of Publication Seoul
  • Date Published 1978