Moment in Peking by Yutang Lin, First Edition (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red covers. Top edge purple. 8vo, 815 pages. Cut off dust jacket covers & flaps included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Fifth Printing. 815 pages; light markings on endpapers. Minor smudges on rear endpapers. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light rubbing to the covers. Light yellowing to pages. Minor scratches to the exterior edges of textblock. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 815pp. first edition, original cloth, lower cover stained. There is a signature on the fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938, including the Boxer Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the start of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. This is the First American Edition. Orange-Red Boards are tight and true with no...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. 815p. An orange cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Binding is cockeyed, but still tight. Spotty white stains on front cover and tiny dent on top edge of back cover. Otherwise, text is clean.

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 815 pp; G-/Fair; tan spine with black text; DJ has tearing and ripping along edges, two large open tears along fore edge, large open tear on spine, small open tear on spine, mild sunning on spine; mild shelf wear, bumping and rubbing to corners, binding shaken, small piece of cloth binding missing in upper right corner of back board, mild age toning, small sticker on bottom left of back pastedown. 1359189. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing (no additional printings listed). Very light shelf wear. There is a faint trace of erasure on the half title page. The endpapers have some foxing near the gutters. Otherwise fine in a square, sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Flat signed on first free fly leaf; previous owner's name neatly in black ink on first free fly leaf; 8vo; with 815 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hard. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding firm. Front interior gutter cracked. Foxing and light spotting to fly psges. Slightly cocked. Front board slightly bowed. Tanning and spotting to edges. Heavy shelf wear including staining to boards. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. black cloth, jacket torn with losses, owner name handwritten, $2.00 price on jacket flap, edition not stated, over two pounds.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine; maroon topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 815pp; illus. Modest shelf-wear and soil, with light indentation to upper front board, and light rubbing to board edges; Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear, 1" chip to base of spine, tiny chips and creases to extremities, and foxing to verso of spine panel; Good. Yutang's novel explores forty years of contemporary China, focusing on...

First Chinese Edition, "Special Authorized Edition". "Story of two daughters of a Peking upper middle class family," and the jealousies, conflicts, loves, and sorrows, set during nearly forty years beginning with the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Near Fine, thin paper pages yellowing, in Very Good dustjacket, few tiny edge chips, few abrasions to front panel.

Hardcover. First Edition; 3rd impression. Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on FEP. Few tape strips along panel edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First edition. 8vo. [15], 3-815, [3] pp. Black cloth with a Chinese character on the front board in brown, gold lettering blocked in brown on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black. Set in the period between 1900 to 1938, Yutang's novel explores familial relationships, gender dynamics, and old and new traditions in twentieth-century China. The...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE PUBLICATION IN ORIGINAL RICE PAPER DUST JACKET!** Book is VERY GOOD with age toning on top and spine. Perfectly bright white label on front board with clean and bright interior with no writing or marks. Rice paper Dust Jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with chipping at spine but in wonderful condition considering how fragile it is.

First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This was Lin's first novel, written in English and later translated into Chinese in 1941 and 1977. The work explores upper-class family relations set during the tumultuous political landscape of early 20th-century China, which saw the Boxer Uprising and the Republican Revolution of 1911. Lin Yutang (1895-1976) ranks as one of China's most influential 20th-century intellectuals, leaving "a huge body of works that cut across many disciplines of...