Lund. Förlags AB Wiken. 1983. 349pp, inscribed in Chinese by Gu Cheng to Professor John Minford and his wife Rachel May front free endpaper, in original card slipcase showing wear at corners, stiff card boards with dustjacket, overall good. Text in Chinese and Swedish. 27 x 15cm. Gu Cheng (1956..... 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

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

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

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

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

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): 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

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

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