John Rabe Erwin Wickert (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st American edition.

1st ed. With B&W illus. The story of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, by a member of the Nazi party. Binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. y Very Good. y First Thus. London: Little Brown and Company (UK), 1999. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Account of the heroic actions of a solitary German who refused to leave the Chinese capital as the Japanese army advanced, recorded in the diary he wrote nightly. English translation by John E Woods. 294pp with notes, illustrated with black and white photographs to the text. Maps to endpapers, gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine, minor marking to top edges and tiny nick to one fore-edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations, map endpapers. Fine in fine DJ. 294 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

SOFTCOVER. In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe, who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show a bad example to his Chinese workers. Sending his wife and family to safety, he watched in horror as the Japanese began to wipe out the population. Hastily contacting the tiny remaining community of foreigners - fewer than 20 people - and using the flimsy authority of a pact Hitler had made with the Japanese, Rabe spent months safeguarding and providing refuge for thousands of Chinese, often interposing himself physically between the executioners and their victims. 1999. A trade paperback copy in fine. unmarked and unread condition. ---length:- '23.4'width:- '15.3'units:- Centimeters.…

Octavo softcover (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 cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Maps as front and rear end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

Octavo softcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

294 pp, b&w photographic and line illustrations, fine copy in pictorial, limp wrappers.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, map end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 294 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Minimal dust marking to the closed page edges. Very near Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper with rubs and chips, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0316648078 CHINA & CHINESE HISTORY.…

443 S. Mit Textabb. sowie 1 Plan u. 1 Karte auf den Vorsätzen. Original-Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Gutes Exemplar. Gewicht (Gramm): 650.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

OPp., gebundene Ausgabe, SU. Condition: Gut. 443 S. : Ill. SU. etwas berieben, Buch leicht schief gelegen, ansonsten gut erh. ISBN: 9783421050984 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 670.