Edgar Snow Intro (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: --. 1st Edition. brown cover with gilt lettering on spine; 444pp; glossy b/w frontis & 15 plates; some foxing on frontis; some sunning to spine. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: --. brown cover with gilt lettering on spine; 490pp; b/w frontis & 14 glossy b/w plates; some foxing on frontis & title page; some sunning to spine; tiny stains on fore edge. Hardcover.

hardcover. Condition: Good. first American edition. 1942 first American edition, Smith and Durrell (New York), 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, silver lettering to spine, top page edges red, xix, 313 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, and a bit of rubbing and edgewear, to covers. Slight foxing / soiling to blank endpapers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~PPP~ [2.0P] This is the highly collectible 1942 First American Edition of T'ien Chun's (pseudonym of Xiao Jun) landmark novel, 'Village in August.' Featuring a notable introduction by Edgar Snow, this was the first contemporary Chinese novel to be translated into English and introduced to a Western audience. It provides a raw, straightforward, and historically vital account of the common Chinese soldier in the Peoples' Revolutionary Army fighting against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. Chun, who was himself a part of the resistance, vividly portrays the awakening of the Chinese rural masses, their heroism, and the brutal reality of guerrilla warfare. A superb, well-preserved reading or collector's copy of a foundational work of 20th-century Asian literature and Sino-Japanese War history.…

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & tanning to board extrems & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/peeling to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling). …