Westerly. A Quarterly Review. Contemporary China Issue.
Nedlands. University of Western Australia. September1981. Black and white illustrations, 127pp, wrappers. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140780). More
Nedlands. University of Western Australia. September1981. Black and white illustrations, 127pp, wrappers. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140780). More
香港. (Hong Kong). 香港朝陽出版社.[Xianggang zhao yang chu ban she]. 1973. Black and white portrait of the author front free endpaper, 110pp, in paperback, as new. Text in traditional Chinese. 18.4 x 13cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169279). More
London. Jonathan Cape. 1971. Reprint. xi + 299pp, front free endpaper signed by previous owner, dustjacket rubbed and foxed on reverse, now protected, overall a good copy. Novel set in China. When referring to this item please quote stockid 143861. More
London. Methuen. 1949. Second edition. 392pp, some light foxing, dustjacket torn with a little loss, still a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 168634). More
New York. John Day. 1956. 1st Edition. 346pp, prior owner's signature upper and lower leaves, endpapers browned pages, red cloth boards rubbed on extremities, otherwise a good copy. This fictionalised account of the life of Tzu Hsi (also known as Ci-xi) is the story of the last Empress in China..... More
London. Pan Books. 1963. 191pp, tape damage upper and lower endpapers, margins of leaves browned, prior owner's signature on front free endpaper, extremities a little rubbed, sound paperback copy. 18 x 11cm. "It was a face not beautiful but passionate and good. One would say, here is a quick-tempered woman..... More
Rutland, Vermont. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. First edition. Duotone frontispiece with bold monotone line illustrations throughout 98pp, lower cover bottom edge and spine little faded with some foxing upper edge of leaves, prior owner's name half-title, slightly faded covers, some marking upper fore-edge, a good hardback copy. 23 x...... More
London. Cape. 1987. 189pp, some light browning, Review copy with review stamp on front free endpaper marked out in a black marker. Dustjacket,. Fiction set in Szechuan during the 1920s it tells a story of an expedition in search of the rare and reclusive Giant Panda. When referring to this..... More
Edinburgh. Edinburgh U.P., 1973. x + 466pp, dustjacket little torn and patchily faded, neat signature upper edge of dustjacket. The purpose of this book is to introduce the English reader to two contiguous realms of Chinese literature, fiction in the colloquial language and the drama, ranging from the 13th century..... More
Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1957. Black and white photographic illustrations, 85pp,light rubbing and bumps on extremities, good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171603. More
Peiping. Yu Lien Press. 1935. Second Edition. Map, 3 black and white plates, 62pp, pictorial paper covered boards with maroon cloth spine. Spine a little worn, boards a little faded in places, very good copy. Text in English with a preface in Chinese. Published to raise funds for the Tsunhua..... More
Sydney. Angus & Robertson. 1953. Endpaper maps, xvii + 320pp, brown stain in gutter of first 25 leaves, still a good secondhand copy in lightly worn red cloth covers. Novel, by well known Australian authors, set in the 19 years following the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, it..... 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
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]. 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
New York. Norton. (circa2008). 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 placed..... 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
(Beijing). 文學古籍刊行社 Wen Xue Gu Ji Kan Xing She, 1955. 2 volumes. Volume 1. 790 pg. Volume 2. 830 page. Hardback. Some wear to extremities but otherwise a good sound and clean copy. In comparison with Feng's other works, "Gu Jin Tan Gai" is less literary but rather it is characterized..... 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
上海.[Shanghai]. 上海人民美術出版社.[Shanghai ren min mei shu chuban she]. (circa2014). 100 black and white illustrations accompanied by a short text left/right section of each page, small chips lower cover, light creasing upper cover, otherwise very good in wrappers. Text in Chinese. 10.4 x 14.2cm. When referring to this item please quote..... 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. Original yellow cloth covered boards lettered and decorated in black, cloth slightly marked and a prior owner name on the front free endpaper, corners bumped but..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1982. 333 pp (Vol 1) and 380 pp (Vol 2), text in Chinese, with English and French annotations, paperback, covers patchily faded and lifting, spine faded, edges rubbed, a good secondhand copy. Anthology of literary writing by various writers, in the Chinese Language Library series. English/French..... More
Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. 1996. 251pp, spine a little faded, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "In this, his highly accomplished first novel, John Fraser, the award-winning journalist and author, has penned a lively and satirical tale of politics and human fallibility in communist China and the capitalist West." -..... More
天津.[Tianjin]. 天津人民美術出版社.[Tianjin ren min mei shu chu ban she]. 2005. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Black and white illustrations, reproduced from the Qing illustrated edition of Chinese classic fiction "Dream of The Red Chamber", 132pp, very good in paperback. Text in traditional Chinese. 28.5 x. 18.4cm. Originally illustrated by Qing paintier..... More
臺北.[Taipei]. 聯經出版事業公司.[Lian jing chu ban shi ye gong si]. 2001. [Reprint]. 554pp, appendix, very good paperback copy. Text in traditional Chinese. Famous Chinese novelist, 高行健 [Gao Xingjian] (1940-) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. The novel was first published in 1990. This copy is the 11th printing..... More