BO-REUM, HWANG & TAN, SHANNA (trans)

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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2023

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novel Hwang Bo-Ruem Korea

GUNESEKERA, ROMESH

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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2019

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novel Romesh Gunesekera

DAGERMAN, STIG & MACPHERSON, ROBIN FULTON (trans)

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PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press 2011

KEYWORDS: literature post-war world war two wwii ww2 journalism history Stig Dagerman

RUSHDIE, SALMAN

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2024

KEYWORDS: literature philosophy Salman Rushdie

LAI-MING, TAMMY HO

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PUBLISHER: Math Paper Press 2018

KEYWORDS: literature poetry poems Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

MAHBUBANI, KISHORE

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PUBLISHER: Public Affairs 2024

KEYWORDS: literature memoir autobiography Kishore Mahbubani

SNOW, EDGAR

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PUBLISHER: Grove Press 2018

KEYWORDS: history literature China communism Mao Tse-tung Edgar Snow revolution politics

MITCHELL, MARGARET & CONROY, PAT (preface)

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PUBLISHER: Scribner 2011

KEYWORDS: literature classic Margaret Mitchell novel fiction

ALAM, RUMAAN

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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2020

KEYWORDS: literature fiction novel Rumaan Alam

NIENHAUSER Jr, WILLIAM H (Ed & Compiler) et al

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PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: chinese literature poetry traditional China

HUCKER, CHARLES O

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PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: literature Chinese China imperial titles bibliography bibliographies

HARGETT, JAMES M

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PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2018

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China imperial Chinese

SHAUGHNESSY, EDWARD L

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PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006

KEYWORDS: early China Chinese literature texts antiquity Qin dynasty Han paleography

PORTER, BILL & PINE, RED (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature literary history poetry poets

BONNER, JOEY

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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Wang Kuo-wei literature literary China Chinese

OWEN, STEPHEN

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature poetry poems verse Meng Chiao Han Yu

PETERSON, WILLARD J

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history literature 17th seventeenth century I-chih Fang literary

CLARKE, SHARON

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1996

KEYWORDS: first editions literature literary biography memoir Sumner Locke Elliott

KINRA, RAJEEV

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PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history literature literary Chandar Bhan Brahman

HOLROYD, MICHAEL

FIRST US EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxv + 780pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor creasing to spine, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 778-779) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, sm adhesive label to spine, sl tanning)

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS literature literary biography memoir Lytton Strachey