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Published by Impr. d'Extrême-Orient, [Hanoi], 1947
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Small folio, pp. [3]-204, portrait, 2 maps, village plan; very good in later native half brown calf, gilt lettered direct on spine; very good. The writer The Phong's copy, signed and dated by him in 1952 on the title page and also p. [45], and p. 57. Originally published in the Bulletin de la Société des Études Indochinoises, nouvelle série, tom. 12, no. 3-4 in 1938. The Phong (b. 1932) started writing in Hanoi in 1952 "in the first days of the Vietminh." In 1953 he embarked on a career of journalism. He moved to Saigon before the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 where he wrote film reviews and other material on a contractual basis. He is the author of over 40 books, among them three novels (2 written in Hanoi, and another in Saigon), and in September of 1964 he became a press officer of the Minister of Information which brought him in contact with many important people in both the literary as well as the political scene. Not found in OCLC.