Fessler Loren (59 results)
Published by Time, New York, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Hastings of Coral Springs, Altamonte Springs, FL, U.S.A.Hastings of Coral Springs
Contact seller5-star sellerDecorative Paper Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. 176 pages including index and bibliography illustrated with black and white and full color photographs. The endpapers are maps. The front cover is foxed. The text is in very good condition.
Published by Time Incorporated, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.HPB Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
Published by Time Incorporated., 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.Eryops Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; ex-library; shelfwear w/ head and heel of spine bumped and w/ edgewear; o/w contents in good condition. Book.
Published by Time Incorporated
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Time, inc
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Time Inc., NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.Top Notch Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover rubbed and clean. Pages clean and tight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Time Incorporated
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Time Incorporated, NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.Top Notch Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The book is very clean & tight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Time, inc
- Hardcover
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.R Bookmark
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Used - Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket on this edition, printing is directly on boards. Boards have shelf wear.
Published by Time Incorporated, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.HPB Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
Published by Time Inc, NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.Ed Buryn Books
Contact seller4-star sellerOversize Hardcover in pictorial boards, no DJ as issued. Fine unmarked mint copy. Descriptive picture portrait of this country, part of multivolume set of world nations and regions. 8-1/2 x 11, 176 pp, index, appendix, b/w & color photos, maps, endpaper maps. Several dozen other volumes are available at lower individual cost if…purchased as a set; please inquire.
Published by Time Incorporated, New York NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. Light soiling at top edge; Life World Library; B&W and color Illustrations; 176 pages.
Published by Time Incorporated, New York NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.Gibson's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Life World Library; B&W and color Illustrations; 176 pages.
More imagesPublished by Time Incorporated, New York, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Aspen Book Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.Aspen Book Co.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. no dust jacket present. The hardcover book is in good condition with slight wear visible on the spine and corners. The absence of a dust jacket indicates it might have been issued without one or has been removed. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean without inscriptions or library marki…ngs.
Published by American Universities Field Staff, 1973
- Softcover
Seller: All Asia Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.All Asia Books
Contact seller1-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two pamphlets from AUFS-one from 1973 (12 pp.) and one from 1976 (13 pp.).
Published by Life, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Librairie Thé à la page, Montélimar, FranceLibrairie Thé à la page
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. Life, 1965. 1 volume cartonné(s) format In-4 assez bon.
Published by Life, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, FranceAmmareal
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Très bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 1965. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1965. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net pr…ice to charity organizations.
Published by Life, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, FranceAmmareal
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 1965. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1965.…Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Language: English
Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1983
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCloth. First edition. xix, 305 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.
Language: Spanish
Published by Offser Multicolor, 1966
- Hardcover
Seller: Llibreria Bioscana, Biosca, L, SpainLlibreria Bioscana
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketTapa dura. Condition: Muy bueno.
Published by Time Inc, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.Robinson Street Books, IOBA
Contact seller4-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
hardcover without dust jacket. Condition: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood sm4to hardcover without dust jacket, lightly tanned, minor nicks and creases to cover, else clean pages, prompt shipping and tracking.
Published by Time Incorporated, New York, NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Ye Old Bookworm, Odessa, TX, U.S.A.Ye Old Bookworm
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Life World Library; 10.8 X 8.4 X 0.6 inches; 176 pages; Illustrated Boards, No Dust Jacket, Book Tight, Illustrations, Text is clean no markings seen.
Published by Time-Life International, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. China - Life World Library (1965) by Loren Fessler ? Time-Life International ISBN: None Condition: Good China, 1965. A country of immense scale, ancient civilisation, revolutionary politics, vast rural populations, rapidly changing industry and enough historical complexity to make the average family tr…ee look like a shopping list. Published by Time-Life International as part of its ambitious Life World Library series, Loren Fessler?s China attempts the wonderfully modest mid-century publishing task of explaining one of the largest, oldest and most populous countries on Earth in a single illustrated volume. And, naturally, it does so with confidence. This is China under Mao Zedong, at a fascinating and turbulent point in its modern history. The People?s Republic was still relatively young, the upheavals of the Great Leap Forward were recent, relations with both the Soviet Union and the West were tense, and the Cultural Revolution had not yet begun . That would start the following year, in 1966, making this book a particularly interesting snapshot of China immediately before another enormous period of political and social upheaval. Which means that a book intended as contemporary geography has now become history almost by accident. The China shown here is a world of huge cities, enormous agricultural regions, collective endeavour, heavy industry, traditional landscapes and a population living through one of the most dramatic transformations of the twentieth century. It is also a China largely inaccessible to ordinary Western travellers at the time, making illustrated books like this far more important than they might seem today. In 1965 you could not simply open a browser, type "Beijing street view" and spend twenty minutes virtually wandering down an alley before becoming distracted by restaurant reviews. You needed a book. Preferably a substantial one. With maps. And photographs. And somebody prepared to explain several thousand years of civilisation without the aid of hyperlinks. Time-Life specialised in exactly this sort of heroic optimism. The photographs are particularly valuable now. Scenes that were simply intended to show everyday life in the 1960s have acquired a completely different significance with the passing of time. Streets, clothing, bicycles, workplaces, farms, factories and domestic life are no longer merely illustrations; they are historical documents showing a society that has since changed almost beyond recognition. Modern China?with its skyscrapers, high-speed railways, smartphones, giant ports and sprawling megacities?would have seemed extraordinary to many of the people photographed here. In 1965, the bicycle was still one of the defining images of urban China. Today China can build a railway station roughly the size of a respectable British town while Britain discusses whether the existing station needs another platform. Times change. The book also inevitably reflects the assumptions and perspective of Western publishing in the mid-1960s. That is part of its interest. Vintage reference books do not merely tell us about the places they describe; they reveal how those places were understood, interpreted and sometimes misunderstood by outsiders at the time. There is something endlessly fascinating about reading yesterday?s attempt to explain the present. Especially when you already know what happened next. The political sections are naturally among the most historically interesting. Mao?s China was presented to Western readers as something distant, formidable and often mysterious. Cold War attitudes were firmly in place, information was limited, and the People?s Republic remained isolated from much of the Western world. This was seven years before Richard Nixon visited China. Six years before the People?s Republic took China?s seat at the United Nations. And only one year before the Cultural Revolution began transforming Chinese society yet again. So although this is ostensibly a geographical volume, it now sits almost perfectly on a historical fault line. Then there is the sheer scale of the country. China has deserts, mountains, enormous river systems, fertile plains, subtropical regions and areas where simply travelling from one end to the other makes Britain?s concept of "going up north" seem slightly theatrical. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers are not merely decorative features on a map. They have shaped civilisation, agriculture, settlement and politics for thousands of years. The Great Wall is not simply a convenient backdrop for travel photographs. And Beijing has been doing the capital-city business for considerably longer than most modern states have existed. As with the best books in the Life World Library , this one captures not only landscape and politics but ordinary life: work, families, farming, education, industry and the routines through which an enormous country actually functions. There is also something charming about the physical seriousness of Time-Life books themselves. They were designed for an era when knowledge occupied furniture. If you wanted to understand China, you did not carry the information in your pocket. You acquired a large illustrated book, placed it on a shelf beside Canada , Italy and South Africa , and gradually created the impression that the entire planet was under control. Possessing enough volumes of the series probably qualified you to comment confidently on international affairs at dinner. Possessing the complete set may have entitled you to your own globe. For today?s reader, China is arguably more interesting than when it was new. It can be read as geography, political history, social history, photography and an artefact of Cold War publishing all at once. It is emphatically not a current guide to China. Do not use it to plan a train journey. Do not rely on it for visa requirements. Do not expect the population statistics to be particularly fresh. And if a restaurant mentioned in a 1965 book is still trading, it probabl.
Published by Ed. Mondadori
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, FranceAmmareal
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Add to basketNo jacket. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to…charity organizations.
Published by Editions Time - Life. 1968., 1968
- Hardcover
Seller: Loïc Simon, Blaison-Saint Sulpice, FR, FranceLoïc Simon
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Add to basketAbondamment illustré. Life autour du monde. Cartonnage de l'éditeur. 174 pages. 21x28cm.
Published by Time Life Books, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New ZealandBook Express (NZ)
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 175 pages. Cover slightly worn/ scuffed, shelf wear. Part of the popular Life World Library.
Language: English
Published by Time-Life International
- Hardcover
Seller: butzle, Buttenwiesen, DE, Germanybutzle
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Add to basketHC. Condition: Gut. B3877-25 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.
Published by Time-Life International (Nederland) N.V., 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdombeckfarmbooks
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Add to basketIllustrated boards. Condition: Very Good. None. Revised English Edition. 175 pages. Illustrated. Endpaper maps. One of a series.
Language: English
Published by Time Inc
- Hardcover
Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United KingdomYare Books
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. No Cover.
Published by China Institute in America, New York, 1981
- Softcover
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerStaplebound. 3 volumes ([1], 22 ll. ; [1], 38 ll. ; [1], 32 ll.), wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Photocopied typescripts of chapter drafts. Includes the following: Ch. 1: Early Images, Exotic Visitors; Ch. 2: California?s Earliest Chinese Sojourners: Speculative Origins; Ch. 3: Early Welcome and Opposition: Writer Carson and Governor Bigle…r. A collection of essays edited by Fessler under the same title was published by Vantage Press in 1983.
