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Interpreting Culture Through Translation: A Festschrift for D.C. Lau
by Roger T. Ames, Chan Sin-Wai, Mau-Sang Ng (editors)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 9622014364
- ISBN 13
- 9789622014367
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
The Chinese University Press, 1991. 285pp. Original baords. Pages are clean (unmarked) but age-toned. Front hinge is creased but still secure. Inner text block is tight and sound. Boards have bumping to head/heel of spine, a few small dents to edges, rubbing to corenrs. Unclipped DJ is slightly sunned with bumping to head/heel of spine, rubbing to extremities. Looks nice in added protective mylar covering. Nice reading copy. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mylared.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127630
- Title
- Interpreting Culture Through Translation: A Festschrift for D.C. Lau
- Author
- Roger T. Ames, Chan Sin-Wai, Mau-Sang Ng (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 9622014364
- ISBN 13
- 9789622014367
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism D.C. Lau
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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