Author: Jung Chang
Title: 1991 Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
Description: London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of Jung Chang's history of China following three female generations in her family. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. A map of China bound into the front of the volume. 16 plates of photographs. Collated complete. Jung Chang's best selling biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century. This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late 19th and 20th century. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and has been translated into 37 different languages. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original clipped dust wrapper. Externally cloth is in excellent condition, apart from a small tear to the cloth to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with just a little spotting to the top edge. Dust wrapper is in lovely condition, though sunned to the spine and slightly creased to the head of the spine. Near Fine . Ill.: Peter Simpkin. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: Jung Chang Chinese History Feminism Chinese History Peter Simpkin
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Title: 1991 Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
Description: London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of Jung Chang's history of China following three female generations in her family. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. A map of China bound into the front of the volume. 16 plates of photographs. Collated complete. Jung Chang's best selling biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century. This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late 19th and 20th century. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and has been translated into 37 different languages. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original clipped dust wrapper. Externally cloth is in excellent condition, apart from a small tear to the cloth to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with just a little spotting to the top edge. Dust wrapper is in lovely condition, though sunned to the spine and slightly creased to the head of the spine. Near Fine . Ill.: Peter Simpkin. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: Jung Chang Chinese History Feminism Chinese History Peter Simpkin
Price: GBP 65.00 = appr. US$ 92.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 836M16
- Book number: 836M16
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