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Hermit of Peking : the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse / Hugh Trevor-Roper.
LIBRA DS734.9.B3 T73 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003.
- Standardized Title:
- Hidden life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944.
- Backhouse, E.
- Sinologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Sinologists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 316 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Manufacture:
- Scranton, Pennsylvania : Printed and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.
- Other Title:
- Hidden life
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
- Contents:
- The wild oats
- The scholar
- The historian
- Between two patrons
- The benefactor-One
- The benefactor-Two
- The secret agent
- The entrepreneur
- The diaries
- The controversy
- The recluse
- Dr. Hoeppli
- The memoirs-One
- The memoirs-Two
- The portrait.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "Published April 20, 1977. Second printing before publication, May 1977."
- First published in Great Britain in 1976 under title: A hidden life: the enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Macmillan London Ltd.
- "This book was set on the Monotype in a type face called Garamond."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- First published in 1976 under title: A hidden life.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is paperback edition.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".
- Potok Collection copy lacks "First America edition" statement.
- ISBN:
- 0394411048 :
- OCLC:
- 2597110
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