Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Moment in Peking. A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life [SIGNED]

Yutang, Lin

New York: John Day Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. [13] 815pp. Original black cloth with gilt Chinese lettering on cover, tan lettering on brown leather label of spine; in original illustrated dustjacket with black lettering, mylar protected. Signed on front free endpaper.

Novel on China in the authentic manner of Chinese novelists. "The scene is a moving panorama of contemporary China, covering nearly forty years, from the terror of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 to the bitter excitement of the present Japanese invasion, a period of great social change and adjustments in the lives of a teeming humanity." (Publisher)

Dustjacket with light wear along edges, small chips and closed tears, two small chips in center of dustjacket back at top and bottom edge . Binding very lightly rubbed and two inch scuff at bottom foredge of back cover. This lightly rubbed. Good to very good. Item #55803

Price: $750.00