Description: I have here for sale a rare book entitled RED STAR OVER CHINA by Edgar Snow. It is the first US edition published by Random House, New York in 1938. It has 29 b/w photographs arranged in sections in the book. This book is about the Chinese Red Army, the Soviets and the Communist Movement. It gives an account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at a time when it was a guerrilla army and still obscure to Westerners. It was one of the most influential books on Western understanding of China as well as the most influential book on Western sympathy for Red China in the 1930s. Snow recounts the months that he spent with the Chinese Red Army in 1936. Most of this time, he was at their then-capital Bao'an (Pao An). Snow uses his extensive interviews with Mao and the other top leaders to present vivid descriptions of the Long March, as well as biographical accounts of leaders on both sides of the conflicts, including Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao, He Long, and Mao Zedong's own account of his life.Dark grey cloth hardboards with a red block with gilt title lettering to the front and spine. Boards in fine condition. Colour map of China showing the Long March of the Red Army to the front endpaper, and a colour map of Northwest China to the rear endpaper. Front hinge is cracked so front board feels a little loose. Pages are clean but a little sunned. Condition: very good. 474 pages, 24 x 16 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 299.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-12-27T18:49:43.000Z
Shipping Cost: 39.5 GBP
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Binding: Cloth
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Region: Asia
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: EDGAR SNOW
Publisher: Random House
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Year Printed: 1938
Original/Facsimile: Original
