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The John Day Co,. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9997412575 . ; Orange cloth cover is frayed at the bottom cap with a couple small soil spots but bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs are toned and … Read more about this item

New York: John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good -. New York: John Day Company, 1939. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Orange cloth. Sun faded spine with black stamped lettering on spine. Some scuffing and soiling on cover, shelf wear to corners and head/tail. Fraying on head. Deckled fore-edge with some soiling. Gray tinted top page edge, staining… Read more about this item

NY: The John Day Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed first edition, first printing. Publisher's full blue silk, gilt lettering on green panel on spine, gilt Chinese medallion on cover. Signed by the author on the ffep. . Covers lightly soiled, slight foxing on… Read more about this item

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and brown front board decoration. 815pp. Very good. Mildest of binding wear, else tight and internally near fine; endpapers a tad age toned. Attractive first edition of this hefty first novel (written in English) by the Chinese polymath (1895-1976): novelist, philosopher, linguist, translator, inventor.… Read more about this item

New York: The John Day Company [1939], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 8vo. [15], 3-815, [3] pp. Black cloth with a Chinese character on the front board in brown, gold lettering blocked in brown on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black.… Read more about this item

NY: The John Day Company, 1939. Book Of The Month Club related insert laid in; Signed in ink by author on ffep, with photo of author glued to the page; Former owner's bookplate on fep, age toned, else textblock clean and tight; Brown top edge; Cloth binding bumped at the head and foot of the spine and less so to… Read more about this item

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; variant red cloth cover; no prior owner marks; some age tone to text pages, darkening along gutters of paste-downs; tight bind; clean cloth cover, vivid titling; little corner bump; dj only fair to poor: some tape repairs to chipped flap folds on dj verso, chipping at spine ends and corners,tears, small nicks,… Read more about this item

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, framed gilt spine titles, brown cover decoration, no dust jacket, 815 pp. Very good book, rubbed cloth edges, boards lightly soiled, text block toned, gutters foxing, front paste down ex libris. Flat signed in pencil to front free end paper.

New York: John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/near fine. Octavo, 815pp. A good copy, with some soiling to the boards, and a faint dampstain affecting the margin of the first several dozen pages, not approaching any text. In a supplied dust jacket, near fine, with some sticker ghost on the spine, else quite fresh. This copy… Read more about this item

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 815p. An orange cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Binding is cockeyed, but still tight. Spotty white stains on front cover and tiny dent on top edge of back cover. Otherwise, text is clean.

The John Day Co,, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The John Day Co,, 1939. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: John Day, 1939. First printing (no additional printings listed). The spine is shallowly creased and faintly stained. A bit of erasure is on the front free endpaper. In a square, sound binding with hinges intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1939. HARDCOVER . GOOD . SMALL HOLE SIDE VIEW , BACK COVER HALF WAY LOOSE FROM SPINE , YET VERY FIXABLE

The John Day Co,, 1939-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

The John Day Co,. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Possible BCE. Hardcover. 9997412575 . Bookplate, slight adhesion fep; Orange HB; 8.4 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 815 pages .

The John Day Co,, 1939. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Owner's name on verso.

New York: The John Day Co., 1939. The renowned author's first work of fiction, depicting the interplay of a bevy of characters, many of which are scions of three Chinese prominent families, during the turbulent years from the turn of the 20th century to the beginning of WWII. While written originally in English, the format closely follows that of traditional… Read more about this item

Foreign Language and Research Press, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William Heinemann LTD, 1943. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Reprint. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed and edge worn. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. Otherwise clean and complete. Tightly bound. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.