WHEN THE TYPHOON BLOWS.
by Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, Illustrated by Kurt Wiese
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good only in orange cloth with some wear, fraying to corners, and foxing to edges of textblock (affecting the margins of a few p/orange cloth with some wear, fraying to corners, and foxing to edges of textblock (affecting the margins of a few pages), no
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: John C. Winston Co.,, (1942). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in orange cloth with some wear, fraying to corners, and foxing to edges of textblock (affecting the margins of a few pages), no dust jacket. . First US printing. A story set in China before the start of the Second World War when the Chinese were fighting alone against the Japanese invasion of their country. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and ten full page black and white drawings by Kurt Wiese, as well as small drawings at the head and tail of each chapter. Lewis and Wiese's first collaboration "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze" received the Newbery Award. Pronunciation and notes, illustrated endpapers. 273 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77463
- Title
- WHEN THE TYPHOON BLOWS.
- Author
- Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, Illustrated by Kurt Wiese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good only in orange cloth with some wear, fraying to corners, and foxing to edges of textblock (affecting the margins of a few p
- Jacket Condition
- orange cloth with some wear, fraying to corners, and foxing to edges of textblock (affecting the margins of a few pages), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- (1942)
- Keywords
- china, world war ii fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated;
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