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Athenum, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Atheneum Publishers, 1966. red boards with black ltrs, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped & worn, edges yellowing, deckled side edges, covers scruffed. Historical fiction and adventure story of China.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. G+/No DJ.

Atheneum Publishers, 1966. red boards with black ltrs, yellow printers ink on top edges, mapped endpapers, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped, edges yellowing, deckled side edges. Historical fiction and adventure story of China.. Unknown Edition. Hardcover. G++/No DJ.

Dell Publishing Co.. MASS MARKET PAPER. 1967. . Poor. 1st Dell printing.

Atheneum Publishers, 1966. red boards with black ltrs, yellowed edges, yellow mapped endpapers, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped, deckled side edges, clean and tight. DJ is yellow with red/black/& green ltrs while nicked and chipped on edges/corners/and head-heel of spine. Historical fiction and adventure story of China.. Book Club. Hardcover. G++/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Atheneum, 1966. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Brown & red covers in a yellow dust jacket. Map end papers. 8vo., 590 pages. Dust jacket price clipped and torn on the edges. 10th printing.

Atheneum, 1966-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Clean book. Some wear. Missing dust jacket.

Atheneum, 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Atheneum, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dell Books 1980. Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

NY: ATHENEUM. TWELFTH PRINTING, UNCLIPPED DJ (6.95), CLEAN COPY. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1967.

Atheneum. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1966. Loose Binding. Hard Cover. (N23) .

Hardcover. Good. 1966 first edition. Worn dustcover Offered by UK charity Langdon, supporting people with disabilities

Name inscribed FLEP, else content appears as unread and unblemished with fing tan/red boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear, in DJ displaying surface/edgewear, as shown, with reinforced & repaired chipping & small tears. A fat, gutsy, commercial historical novel that will most probably sweep the bookstore windows on the strength of its narrative, Tai-Pan is a much better book than Clavell's first, King Rat. It describes the British occupation of Hong Kong in 1841 and an empire built upon opium smuggling. Tai-Pan means "supreme power" and seadog Dirk Struan's Noble House is the supreme money power on the "godrotting" island. Struan's rival is aging, one-eyed Tyler Brock, an opposition which extends nepotically through their grown sons and daughters. Also in the power play are Russians, Americans and several Chinese factions. Brock, the island's second richest operator, wants to be Tai-Pan himself, steal Noble House from Struan, and set up his own sons as supreme… Ler mais

signed by first ownerTai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium .It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!

New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Author's second book, very good+ in fair dust jacket, in archival cover; heavy fading to jacket spine, a few small chips to jacket edges, minor rubbing to board corners else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket bearing a $6.95 price; text is clean and bright; stated first edition; photos on request; 590 pages .