My Twenty-Five Years in China
John B. Powell
1945
The Macmillan Company
First Edition
8vo
Description:
First edition of John B. Powell’s My Twenty-Five Years in China, published in New York by The Macmillan Company in 1945. The memoir of an American journalist who arrived in Shanghai in 1917 to work for Millard’s Review, later bought it and renamed it the China Weekly Review, and edited it for two decades until Pearl Harbor. Powell’s opposition to Japanese expansion in China was consistent and bitter and carried on at great personal risk, and the book is a first-hand account of the Chinese Republic.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Grey cloth. Binding is firm and contents are clean. Boards are clean with minor rubbing to spine ends.
My Twenty-Five Years in China
John B. Powell
1945
The Macmillan Company
First Edition
8vo
Description:
First edition of John B. Powell’s My Twenty-Five Years in China, published in New York by The Macmillan Company in 1945. The memoir of an American journalist who arrived in Shanghai in 1917 to work for Millard’s Review, later bought it and renamed it the China Weekly Review, and edited it for two decades until Pearl Harbor. Powell’s opposition to Japanese expansion in China was consistent and bitter and carried on at great personal risk, and the book is a first-hand account of the Chinese Republic.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Grey cloth. Binding is firm and contents are clean. Boards are clean with minor rubbing to spine ends.
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