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The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shang orders that everything is to made opposite, with all things kind and decent to be deemed evil and all things evil deemed good, causing the people of China much distress, until a few brave souls defy the emperor and set things straight again.
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The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shan, determined to be considered the most handsome and noble man in China, declares that everything is to be the opposite of what it was, so that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be the most admired qualities in hiskingdom.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0374376816
- ISBN 13 9780374376819
- BindingHardcover
- IllustratorJusim Julian
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THE TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA; Isaac Bashevis Singer / Pictures by Julian Jusim / Translated from the Yiddish by Elizabeth Shub
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Julian Jusim (illustrator). First American Edition Thus Illustrated. Tall, slender 8vo, light red boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Chinese emperor with left arm and finger pointing toward heaven; illustrated by Julian Jusim, [32] pages simuilating parchment. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 - 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970). Julian Jusim is a Russian-born illustrator now living and working in Germany. The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China was first published in America by Harper & Row in 1971. The Julian Jusim first illustrated edition was published in Germany in 1993 as Der Kaiser von China. "A dark tale of the eternal "struggle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness," from a master, given pristine treatment in the illustrations."--Kirkus Reviews EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Wonderful illustrations!. Seller Inventory # 5217
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Jusim, Julian (illustrator). SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. THE TOPSY-TURVY EMPEROR OF CHINA. Pictures by William Pene du Bois. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Small 4to. Fine in a very good dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine-sunned, shalloe creasing and small nicks along tope-edge of back panel). Seller Inventory # 58076
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