Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1963. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: VG; closed tears, chipping at head and heel; rubbing to covers. Red cloth boards and spine with bright yellow lettering on spine and front board. 382 pp. A best-selling novelists latest novel about China's evolution into Communism. A panoramic novel beginning in 1912 and ending in the indefinite present centered on a romance contained in an interracial marriage. Through her characters the dramatic struggle of a great people enter the modern world and leaving the old behind gives the feeling of a terrible debasement of the soul of the Chinese people in accepting the Western doctrine of Communism. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002679
Title: The Innocent Dreamers
Author: Alice Tisdale Hobart
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis, IN
Date Published: 1963
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: CHINA, COMMUNISM, SUN YAT SEN, CHIANG KAI SHEK, MAO TSE TUNG, COMMUNIST UPRISING IN NATIONALIST PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF MANCHU DOMINATION, CHINESE DEMOCRACY

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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