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Theroux, Paul KOWLOON TONG Boston, MA Houghton Mifflin Company 1997 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo 243 pp, quarterbound w/red papercovered boards w/red cloth spine w/gilt lettering, dj red w/gilt-black-wht spine w/gilt dragon on front & photo of author on the back. Neville Mullard & his mother, Betty, consider Hong Kong as part of Britain.He runs the family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule is about to end, Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business. Price: 12.32 USD
Theroux, Paul RIDING THE IRON ROOSTER by Train Through China New York, NY G.P. Putnam's Sons 1988 6th Printing Hard Cover Good Fair-good Remainder 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo Map Endpapers 480 pp, quarterbound w/brown papercovered boards w/black cloth spine w/gilt lettering, dj wht-blu-grn w/black lettering w/pictorial front and spine w/photo of author on back of dj, endpaper maps. Author joined a tour that made its way by rail f/London to Mongolia, stopping at Paris, Warsaw & in the Soviet Union. Then from Inner Mongolia to Peking & Shanghai, author rode trains & discovered that China is changing, but in other ways it is still as ancient as its ruins. red remainder mark top edge, light stain top of fore edge, some wrinkling & small chips to dj top edge. Price: 7.86 USD
