Shanghai. The Commercial Press Limited. 1930. Sepia-toned photo illustrations. Original burgundy cloth covered boards lettered in ink. 279pp. 22 x 13.5cm. Endpapers browned, some neat pencil annotations on the finals. Rear hinge split but holding some light discolouration to lower boards but a very good clean copy. A fictional tale..... 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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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