Shen of the Sea. Chinese Stories for Children.
Hamilton. Reprint. 1969. Striking black and white illustrations, 221pp, remainder mark lower edge, slightly faded dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 3320. More
Hamilton. Reprint. 1969. Striking black and white illustrations, 221pp, remainder mark lower edge, slightly faded dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 3320. More
Hamilton. Reprint. 1969. Striking black and white illustrations, 221pp, remainder mark lower edge, slightly faded dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176417. More
Philadelphia. The Westminster Press. 1926. Black & white frontispiece; 4 full page black and white photographic illustrations. Upper margin of frontispiece and title page show a small stain from a paper clip. Original blue watered silk cloth stamped in white with b/w pagoda photograph laid down on the front cover..... More
Hong Kong. Heinemann Asia. 1979. Colour line illustrations, 211pp, dustjacket lightly faded on spine, a very good hardback copy. Favourite children's stories from Northeast Asia particularly China and Taiwan, as well as Southeast Asia When referring to this item please quote stockid 178986. More
New York. Morrow. 1989. 917pp, upper edge trifle foxed, dustjacket little worn and faded, otherwise a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168675. More
New York. Morrow. 1993. 640pp, upper edge trifle foxed, a very good hardback copy in like dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168674. More
Burwood, Sydney: The F. J. Thwaites Publishing Co., ( 1937.). 294pp, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, cloth a little stained and lightly sunned on the spine, still a sound secondhand copy in original red cloth boards. South Australian author Charles Cooper, a veteran of Gallipoli, wrote for The Bulletin..... More
London. Oriental Translation Fund. 1829. 1st thus. 2 volumes. Volume I: black & white frontispiece "Fac-simile of the Title-Page to Haoukewchuen, or the Fortunate Union". A further page with borders decorated and printed in blue announce: Oriental Translation Fund Instituted 1828 under the patronage of His Most Gracious Majesty George..... More
香港.[Hong Kong]. 存真印書館.[Cun zhen yin shu guan]. 1966. 1st Edition. 159pp, contents little browned, spine little faded. Good in card covers. Selections of from the newspaper column 長短錄 [The Long and the Short] of People's Daily. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. When referring to this..... More
[北京].[Beijing]. 人民日报出版社.[Ren min ren bao chu ban she]. 1980. Inscribed to Professor Ryckmans by Timothy Cheek, 199pp. Some patchy browning paperback covers. Good copy. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173853. More
New Delhi. Anmol Publications. 1999. First Edition. xii + 123pp, bibliography, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168692. More
香港.[Hong Kong]. 學林書店.[Xue lin shu dian]. No date circa 1970s. 149pp, occasional very light foxing covers, very good, paperback. Text in traditional Chinese. 17.3 x 12.4cm. Includes seven one-act plays written by Ding Xilin, Chinese play writer and physician. When referring to this item please quote stockid 169708... More
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Centre for Chinese Studies. 1980. First Edition. xxiv + 162pp, index, notes, appendices, glossary, spine and adjacent covers slightly browned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168693. More
北京.[Beijing]. 人民文学出版社. [Ren min wen xue chu ban she]. 1981. 571pp, very light wear and soiling paperback covers. Richard Rigby's signature and chop on title page. Good copy. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173848... More
New York. Norton. (circa 2008). 416pp, hardback in dustjacket, very good, Novel based on the life of Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang. It aims to stay true to the broad strokes of Madame Pan's life as depicted in the few sources available but for the most part the characters, events and..... More
New York. Dutton. 1967. 222pp, little foxing and neat pencilled notes on endpapers, edges little foxed, dustjacket trifle shelf worn and browned, remainder mark lower edge, a sound secondhand hardback copy. . "Li Chi represents a curious aspect of Chinese Communist culture. Everyone who has lived in Communist China agrees..... More
济南.[Jinan]. 山东画报出版社.[Shandong hua bao chu ban she]. 2002. Illustrated with reproductions of the European 19th century prints in black and white, 89pp, tipped in plate, minor wears on covers, otherwise very good hardback copy. Text in Chinese. 21.1 x 19.4cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170543... More
London. Collins. 1942. 288pp. Endpapers trifle browned, dustjacket somewhat worn with little loss at head and tail of spine, mended on reverse by a prior owner, overall a good copy. Sequel to Fedorova's The Family this novel is set in war-torn Tientsin in 1938. When referring to this item please..... More
London. Collins. 1942. Reprint. 316pp. Endpapers little browned, dustjacket trifle worn with spine sunned, upper cover lightly marked in pencil, overall a good copy. Story of a White Russian family set against the background of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1958. Translation. Illustrations, 132pp, index, paperback, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180763. More
West Lafayette. Perdue University Press. 2004. ix + 229pp, index, appendices, glossary, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168704. More
(Beijing): 作家出版社 Zuojia Chubanshe, 1956. 3 volumes. 640pp; 452pp; 647pp Volumes uniformly bound in attractive modern dark blue cloth with original wrappers bound in with the exception of the lower wrapper of volume I. All volumes titled on spine in silver Chinese characters. Foxed and browned throughout. This trilogy is..... More
北京.[Beijing]. 人民文学出版社. [Ren min wen xue chu ban she]. 1984. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 232pp, paperback. Covers a trifle worn, good copy. From the library of Professor Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) 李克曼. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173845. More
G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1916. 1st edition. Coloured frontispiece by Modest Stein, with tissue guard. vi + 447pp plus 4 pages of bookseller adverts. Small closed tear last blank. Original yellow cloth covered boards lettered and decorated in black, hinges starting but still sound, cloth slightly marked and a prior..... More
Shanghai. Commercial Press. 1933. xv + 207pp, endpapers browned, bookseller's label and Chinese stamp upper pastedown, cloth covered boards clean and bright, spine a little faded, overall very good. Interesting association copy from the library of author and Sinophile Rewi Alley. Poetry is in Chinese characters and English text. When..... More