Buy this book on-line Poncins, Gontran De : From a Chinese CityDoubleday & Company, Garden City, 1957
Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 256 pages, well illustrated, cloth, DJ, very good. Stated first edition. From the dust jacket: "In Cholon, Indo-China, on a peaceful spring evening in 1955, Gontran de Poncins was enjoying his dinner as usual in a native sidewalk restaurant. 'All at once something broke. Though I had not heard a single shot, I saw the mob surge toward me, fleeing from the boulevard, not so much running as lifted by fear, lifted by the wind of the bullets. ' This was the beginning of a civil war - and the end of a civilization. " FR4-1; 256 pages, Very Good in Good dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Poncins, Gontran De : From a Chinese City. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, incunabula, first editions, out-of-print books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |