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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Dombey and Son
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Complete, with the half title and vignette title, the eight-line errata, and 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career-concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Fine.

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Seller: ZH BOOKS

Title: Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 (Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2)
Author: Various
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Kharbin: Tipografiia Kazansko-Bogoroditskago Muzhekogo Monastyria, 1929. Softcover. First editions, issues 1 and 2 for January and February, 1929; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; illustrated wraps; issue 1 with thin cuts at tips of spine, spotting to margins of pages, illustrated, very good condition; issue 2 lacking back wrap, front wrap detached with some loss of paper, lower corner trimmed, previous owner's signature to front wrap, illustrated, in about good condition.Quite uncommon and fragile examples of the very first two issues of a children's magazine, published as a supplements to the "Khleb Nebesnyi" (Bread of Heaven) journal for the White emigre community in Harbin, China. Spiritual, cultural, and moral, the publications were printed at the Mother of God of Kazan Monastery in Harbin, which had its own publishing house. They came out monthly from 1929 until 1935, when the Manchukuo Manchuria (formed by the Japanese military administration in the occupied territories) banned their publication. For the next year, the journals came out at interminable intervals under various one-time names. They ceased to exist in 1944. OCLC lists one incomplete run at UC Berkeley Libraries with none others in the trade.

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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA

Title: THE BUDDHIST CONQUEST OF CHINA: THE SPREAD AND ADAPTATION OF BUDDHISM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA [TWO VOLUMES]
Author: Zurcher, E.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. Reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo, two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spines. Boards show mild sunning and very minor wear to the edges. Text blocks have slight age toning to the edges. Very mild wear interiorly. Illustrated. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Office on the Back Shelf. CONTENTS: Vol. One "Text" xiii, 320 pages -- Vol. Two "Notes, Bibliography, Indexes" [146] pages Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1381665. FP New Rockville Stock.