Peking. A Tale of Three Cities.
by CAMERON, NIGEL & BRIAN BRAKE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
Tokyo.: John Weatherhill, Inc.. First edition.. 1965.. Maps, plans, many colour and black and white plates, some full page, xiv + 263pp, index, bibliography, chop and prior owner's signature on title-page, gilt lettering cloth covers, dustjacket with some wear along extremities and some loss on spine, even browning along edges, a good hardback copy. 30.5 x 22cm. Traces the history of the 3 cities of Peking - the city of Mongol splendour, the seat of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the 20th century metropolis through to the middle of the 20th century. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 213917
- Title
- Peking. A Tale of Three Cities.
- Author
- CAMERON, NIGEL & BRIAN BRAKE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Weatherhill, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo.
- Date Published
- 1965.
- Keywords
- Beijing, China, History, Peking, Photography, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Asia Bookroom
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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