sian coup état fortnight extracts von mayling soong chiang kai shek (12 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition thus, stiff pictorial card covers with flaps, 79 pages clean tight and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Two works published together, bound in Oriental-style textured boards, front cover printed in gilt, string binding; Chinese paper hand-made from bamboo fiber; crimson silk on boards, with patterned spine. Covers unevenly sunned, edge wear. Front fly creased but interior is very clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Third printing. Boards irregularly faded, exterior binding threads broken, spine fabric worn and faded. Top board corners lightly bumped all corners lightly worn. Text block edges soiled. Name and date inked to front free end-paper, word inked to head of title-page. Binding remains firm, text otherwise unmarked.

Octavo, string bound silk wrapped boards (hardcover), x + 119 pp. Good+, with wear to spine and sunning to edges, slight foxing (age darkened spotting). From Foreword: For the sheer thrill of danger, romance, calm courage and dramatic climax, these two documents have all the fascinating interest of a historical novel. But this is immensely intensified when it is realized that they are the authoritative records of actual happenings only a few months ago while the fate of a great nation was literally trembling in the balance and the whole world was awaiting the outcome with puzzled bewilderment and ancious forebodings. Madame Chiang describes her part in this sensational occurrence while the incidents are still fresh in her memory and in doing so unconsciously reveals a wifely devotion, a woman's intuitive understanding of the basic issues and a superb heroism which are the more convincing because written with so objective a purpose to give the simple facts. Asian History, Asia, Sian, China, Chinese.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. These two works published together, bound in Oriental-style textured boards, front cover printed in gilt, strinh binding; "Sixth Impression, February, 1938", paginated x, 119 pages; clean and unmarked, shows mild affects of moisture especially a light dampstain along the bottom page edges, not touching the text; scarce, see photos; bookplate of "Charles Troutman, Jr, New York 1/17/42".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. No jacket. 5th printing. Some foxing at the beginning and ending of the textblock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shanghai: The China Publishing Company, 1937. 1st edition. x + 119pp. 8vo. Scarlet cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Bound in traditional Chinese style. Printed on hand-made bamboo paper. Chiang Kai-Shek's calligraphy on the front cover. Very good. The Chinese leader and his wife's account of their kidnapping in Xian in 1936. "The Incident is doubtless one of the most sensational episodes in modern history and many people still view the event with excitement, regret, and indignation. While the dramatic capture of Chiang Kai-shek and his abrupt release have already mystified many, the negotiated settlement and the aftermath of the Incident remain largely in speculation. Apart from the coup itself, the Sian Incident was the pivotal point in modern Chinese history, so crucial in fact to the survival of the Chinese Communist movement that even today Nationalist writ- ers and officials in Taiwan denounce the Young Marshal Chang Hslieh- liang for having done unforgivable and irreparable damage to the na- tion. They argue, as did Chiang Kai-shek himself, that the Red Army, then numbering approximately 30,000 men and cornered in the inhospitable North Shensi, would have been doomed to destruction, had the Sian Incident not occurred to ruin the whole plan for its ex- termination." (Quoting: The Sian Incident: A Pivotal Point in Modern Chinese History by Tien-wei Wu).

Hardcover. Zustand: G+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover 4th impression (published 1937) with text primarily in English. Red silk covers show light wear, with uneven fading at lower edge. Title in English and Chinese on cover. Printed on double leaves in Chinese style. 119 numbered pages, some of which show foxing (mostly on endpapers). ;

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. Stated "First Edition de luxe, May 1937"; printed in China by Kelley & Walsh, Ltd.; red silk covers; exquisitely decorative cloth covered spine partly bound with a hard-to-describe decorative black thread; gilt front cover title (of only the first of the two books: "Sian: A Coup d' État") with gilt Chinese characters below it ("The Chinese characters on the silk cover are a translation of the titles in the Generalissimo's own calligraphy"--from the half-title page); gentle corner bumps, and a small faded ("sunned") area above the front cover gilt title; some foxing to the end papers and a heavy spiral pencil mark to the inner rear cover; "This book has been printed on specially prepared Chinese paper made by hand from bamboo fibre"--again from the half-title page; delicate uncut double pages, in the Asian manner; foreword by J. Leighton Stuart, presumably the author too of footnotes to some text pages; the text pages themselves tight, clean, square, and unmarked throughout, only a few spots (of "foxing"); 119 pp. with an index of "Names Mentioned in the Story and Diary"; remarkable piece of book-making and odd relic of Chinese-American history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Mayling Soon Chiang on third page. First edition de luxe. Hard cover published by The China Publishing Co. In 1937 on specially prepared paper made by hand from bamboo fibers. Uncut double leaves that were done in the Chinese style. Red silk covers with gilt lettering in English and Chinese characters. Back cover is bowed some. Corners of covers are worn, with splitting of material. Third and fourth pages are heavily tanned. Book is in good condition. Large 8vo, 119 pages, 1 lb. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 119 pages; Signed by Author.

Zustand: Gut. Jahr: 1937. Einband: Seide. Beschreibung: This book has been printed on specially prepared Chinese paper made by hand from bamboo fibre. The Chinese characters on the silk cover are a translation of the titles in the Generalissimo s own calligraphy. Mit Vorwort von J. Leighton Stuart. Alter Besitzeintrag (S'hai, 24. Mai 37) auf dem Vorsatz. Schnitt minimal braunfleckig. Sehr gutes Expl. Sprache: en. X, 119 S.

Zustand: Good. Fifth Impression. No jacket. Light shelf wear. Gentle bump at base of boards. Minor tanning and foxing. Upper edge of text block dustmarked.