Book is in Good condition with green boards and gold lettering on spine. A light stain of 2.0" at front margins of both front and rear boards. Minor edgewear to spine ends and corner tips. Binding is tight with no tears or cracks to gutters. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Pages are clean with no tears, chips, marks or creases.
DJ is in Good condition with a 1.0" wet stain to bottom rear corner. Moderate rear panel sunning. Minor edgewear. No tears or chips. Publisher's original price of 15 s. net on front endflap. DJ is now in protective archival plastic.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, this 8.0" x 5.25" book has 384 pages.
Customer review of another edition:
This is a book from a different age when it was possible to develop a theme more slowly but it remains a beautifully constructed many-layered novel. On the surface it is a love story but there is a fascinating historical perspective that is of particular interest as China's importance grows. Beneath those aspects is the insight into class and race prejudice that is as relevant today as it was in Hong Kong in the fifties. The book is strongly autobiographical yet remains a novel. Any reader would identify with or recognise characters from their own world. I can recommend this book to readers with the time to enjoy beautiful descriptive writing and a gentle yet thoroughly absorbing story of great humanity.
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