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Chinese Encounters
by MORATH, Inge; Arthur MILLER
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A very good plus copy with some light spotting to sheet edges (not affecting open sheets), the dust jacket clipped and with two
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. A very good plus copy with some light spotting to sheet edges (not affecting open sheets), the dust jacket clipped and with two closed tears to upper front panel edge. 8vo. 255 pages. Color and duotone photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing, inscribed by Morath and Miller (signed by both) on the title-page. Documenting their trip to China right after the death of Mao and the fall of Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four, Morath and Miller's book provided rare insight into Chinese culture during this dramatic period of change.
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- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 406193
- Title
- Chinese Encounters
- Author
- MORATH, Inge; Arthur MILLER
- Book Condition
- Used - A very good plus copy with some light spotting to sheet edges (not affecting open sheets), the dust jacket clipped and with two
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY;
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