Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Dragon’s Village by Yuan-Tsung Chen. First Edition stated, 1980 Pantheon. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the straight spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, . The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper, and no inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers have some light spots and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with heavy edge wear, chips, tears and the $10.00 price on the front flap, which looks great in an archival wrap.
In 1949, idealistic seventeen-year-old Guan Ling-ling chooses to stay in Shanghai despite her family’s departure for Hong Kong and joins a movement to carry out revolutionary land reform in a remote Chinese farm village
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