Early Chinese Literature
by Watson, Burton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0231025793
- ISBN 13
- 9780231025799
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York, Columbia University Press, 1962, hardcover, vii-304 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, light spine end bumps. Dustjacket, price-clipped, rubs, small edge chips and short closed tears, scuffs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An account of Chinese writing in the fields of history, philosophy, and poetry from the Chou dynasty to the middle of the Latter Han dynasty, about 1100 B.C. to A.D. 110. Foreword by Wm. Theodore De Bary. Appended: Suggested Readings, Chronology, Index. ISBN 9780231025799
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7766
- Title
- Early Chinese Literature
- Author
- Watson, Burton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0231025793
- ISBN 13
- 9780231025799
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- April 1972
- Keywords
- Asian; Chinese; East Asian; General; Literary Collections; Literary Criticism; Reader's Catalog
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