Kinfolk
by BUCK, Pearl S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The John Day Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1949. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. Pearl S. Buck's 1949 novel is the story of Dr. Liang and his Chinese family, who emigrate to America, but his children retain a strong attachment to China and Chinese culture. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with the familiar Buck sun-and-plowed-fields illustration in gilt to cover and spine along with cover & spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a little dulling to spine gilding, else a clean, tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 406 pages .
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Details
- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 86123
- Title
- Kinfolk
- Author
- BUCK, Pearl S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- BCE
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...