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Published by BERGER-LEVRAULT, 1938
Seller: Librairie rpgraphic, Dannevoux, France
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Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. ATTENTION : COUVERTURE NE PAS D'ORIGINE, (120x185 cm), 258p.
Published by Berger-Levrault éditeurs, Paris, 1926., 1926
Un volume in 8°, broché, couverture souple éditeur, avec une photo en boi contrecollée sur le 1er plat.494 pages. Un violent réquisitoire contre la Chine et les Chinois. Exemplaire en TRES BON ETAT.
Published by Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1926
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paper Boards/Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Translated from the French by R. T. Peyton-Griffin. Moderately clean textblock with some soiling; Sound binding, shows signs of edge wear, rubbed and character-soiled, spine darkened. Although lacking the original paper dust jacket, the binding is now protected in clear, five-mil mylar. 302 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author. Hardcover.
Published by Kelly & Walsh Shanghai 1926, 1926
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition Signed
1st edition 1/2 cloth Very Good octavo 302pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Signed presentation copy from the translator; Peyton-Griffin & interesting subsequent inscription. Boards rather worn but internally a nice copy.
1928 1ST VG MAROON CLOTH GREY PAPER BOARDS.
Published by Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1928, 1928
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition in English, first printing, with the scarce jacket, of this animated analysis of warlordism and anarchy in 1920s China, dedicated to "the humble people of China, the victims of their own apathy; and in contempt of 'Chinese generals', hypocrites and double-crossers". Reginald d'Auxion de Ruffé (1878-1941) was a Parisian aristocrat and a leading light of Shanghai society. He originally published this work in French as Chine et Chinois d'Aujourdhui (1926), updating the final chapters ahead of the English translation to account for recent developments including the 1927 Nanjing Incident. Throughout Is China Mad?, de Ruffé is strongly suspicious of political, military, and social authority, expressing his heartfelt sympathies "to that poor miserable nation whose cities and villages burn in the four corners of China; to the artisan whose shops are in ruin; to the peasants whose fields have been devastated by those who, mouthing the hypocrisies of Confucius, are nothing but the contemptible tyrants of their brothers" (preface). Quarto. Original purple half morocco-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, drab sides, front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket, front panel with half-tone photographic onlay. With half-tone frontispiece and 12 similar plates. Binding fresh, extremities lightly bumped; jacket chipped, closed tear repaired on verso with tissue, flaps without price as issued: a near-fine copy in the very good jacket.