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YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE

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100POCKETS
(Berkeley, CA, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Kurt Wiese (Illustrator) Ilustrador. Reprint of May 1969. EX-LIB; library slip removal scar to fEP. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Illustrated, tangerine linen boards/NF. DJ/NF w/loss to front inner flap; under library mylar. First published 1932; this is a 1969 reprint. Winner of the Newbery Award (1933) and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960). .First novel (1932) from children's author and Methodist missionary to China, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1892 - 1958). Set in pre-World War II China in the city of Chungking, Szechuan --- the city of hills above the Three Gorges, dominated by warlords, secret societies, bandits, hoodlums, opium, penetration of Western ideas, and by 1937, the wartime capitol of China during the Sino-Japanese War. Story of how Young Fu, whose father was less than diligent, is taken under the wings of, and adopted by, a coppersmith whose finds him worthy. World order of western China near a century ago. Nº de ref. del artículo: 013456

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