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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
[Buy it!] | Dabney, Lewis M. | USD 4.00
(Mon Jun 10 15:04:36 2024) | Abebooks | HPB-Ruby | ISBN10: 0374113122, ISBN13: 9780374113124, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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The IG. in Peking. Letters of Robert Hart. Chinese Maritime Customs 1868 1907. Edited by John King Fairbank Katherine Frost Bruner Elizabeth MacLeod Matheson. With an introduction by LK. Little. . . . I. G. L. K.
[Buy it!] | CHINA HART. HART Robert. | USD 75.00
(Mon Jun 10 15:04:35 2024) | Biblio | Zephyr Used & Rare Books | Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Date: 1975. Two vols. Tall thick 8vo. xxvi, [4], 825, [1]; vi, [2], [827]-1625, [1] pp. Frntsps. both vols., numerous maps, plates. Green cloth, gilt lettrng, (slght shlfwr, lbl residue on frnt pstdns), w/ d.j.s. still VG/NF set. First edition of this remarkable record of China under the late Qing court of the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi (Cixi). Hart built up an international staff of 1000s, facilitated foreign trade with China, gave the late-Qing court its new revenue, fostered China’s modernizing of schools, administration, naval development, postal service, and many other lines. He settled the Sino-French war, changed Macao’s status, managed to get borders drawn with Burma and India, and more. 1975. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, ISBN 0674443209 9780674443204 [US] |
