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White Lotus
by John Hersey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st/1st. VG/VG-. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips and clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Light scuff to front paste-down. Fragile dust jacket is unclipped ($6.95 and I/65 to bottom front flap) with closed half inch tear to bottom front and chipping to spine ends and corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Hersey's dystopian novel on race relations - turned on its head. After China wins the "Great War" white Americans had become enslaved by the Chinese and are the subservient race. The story follows a young Arizona girl renamed White Lotus. As she ages, she evolves from "a bewildered, terrified slave to a conscious and intelligent revolutionary." Her orchestrated, yet simple act of standing before her captors on one leg, head bowed like a sleeping bird becomes an often repeated act of nonviolent civil disobedience, an unconventional act in the spirit of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2778
- Title
- White Lotus
- Author
- John Hersey
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Bookplate
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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