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I Left My Roots in China.

LLEWELLYN, Bernard (born 1919).

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953. [Far East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.176. With eight black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to edges and endpapers. Light spotting and browning to rear jacket panel, with some light toning to spine and a few chips and closed tears to top edge. Very good. Concerning the author's experiences living and working in wartime and post-war China. Item #55365

Price: £38.00

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