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The Door of the Double Dragon, a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-Day
by Blanding, Hector
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. J. Watt & Company / Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. George W. Gage (Frontispiece). 12mo. 289 pages. Hardcover bound in yellow cloth with titles in black. Lacks dust jacket. The binding shows some rubbing and some soiling from handling. The binding is a little cocked, and there is a crease and a soiled spot on the spine. Inner hinges secure. Early owner's 1922 on the front flyleaf. There are some heavy brown stains in the bottom margins of pages 55-60, heaviest on pages 57-58, that remains in the margin and does not affect the text. Has a black and white frontis but is otherwise not an illustrated work. A curious publication. The title page gives the publisher as "W. J. Watt & Company" of New York, but the foot of the spine notes "Grosset & Dunlap." A work of fiction of an American in China. Quite scarce. No other copies online. No auction records.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043464
- Title
- The Door of the Double Dragon, a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-Day
- Author
- Blanding, Hector
- Illustrator
- George W. Gage (Frontispiece)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W. J. Watt & Company / Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1920; Hector Blanding; George W. Gage; China; Door of the Double Dragon; Mystery; Fiction; Novel; China; Chinese; Asia; Asian; Rare; Collectible.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Asia;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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