Description: Please note we do not work weekends. All offers, questions, or concerns may not be answered untilMonday. Please understand this means you may need to resubmit your offer Sunday evening. Thank you forsupporting our libraries and have a great weekend. This is News Is My Job A Correspondent in War-Torn China by Edna Lee Booker published in 1940. It is a first printing and research Indicates it is a possible first edition. Red cloth cover, black printing on spine. It is ex-library with all the usual library stamps on spine and end sheets. One of the first women journalists in China, Edna Lee Booker arrived in 1922 and threw herself into the story, snagging a number of exclusive interviews with warlords and also with Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung. She worked on the Shanghai newspaper China Press, and was also the Shanghai stringer for the International News Service, InterNews. Her book was a bestseller on publication in 1940 and was hugely influential in strengthening American support for the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek. All proceeds benefit the Libraries of Pima County. Please review all photos. This listing has beendonated. Please note that the listing is for what you see in the listing. We photograph all of it so youknow what you are purchasing. The sale of the item(s) benefits Friends of the Pima Library (501c3non-profit).
Price: 42 USD
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Subject: Chinese History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1940
Language: English
Special Attributes: Ex-Library, Illustrated
Author: Edna Lee Booker
Region: China
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Historical
