London. Allen Lane. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 370pp, bibliography, notes, index, dustjacket little creased at foot of spine, very good hardback copy. The great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming..... More
London. Allen Lane. 2008. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 370pp, bibliography, notes, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Details of the event in Hong Kong organised by the Royal Asiatic Society at which this copy was..... More
![Beijing. Olympic City. 北京. 奥运之城. [Beijing. Ao yun zhi cheng]. BEIJING FOREIGN...](/pictures/thumb/172570.jpg?v=1627432221)
北京.[Beijing]. 北京出版社.[Beijing chun ban she]. 2007. 1st edition. Profuse photographic illustrations mainly in colour, 205pp, appendices, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Text in Chinese and English. 31.7 x 30.9cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172570. More
Hong Kong. Oxford University. 1982. Reprint. 7 folding maps & plans (one in colour), 29 black and white photographic plates, xvi + 571pp, appendices, index, hardback, dustjacket, 22 x 15cm, very light browning edges, a good copy. First published in 1919. Bredon spent most of her life in Peking was..... More
Shanghai. Kelly & Walsh. 1922. Second edition revised and enlarged. 6 folding maps & plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 523pp, appendices, index, delightfully bound in bright orange silk covered boards, final folding map trifle browned on margins with some separation at folds in one or two places..... More
Belmont. Thomson. 2002. Second Edition. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 200, index, bibliography, glossary, prior owner's name partially blocked out with black marker on fore edge. rubbed on extremities, slight creasing upper cover, a good secondhand copy. Contents include: The Meeting; Half Moon Village; Growing Up; Family..... More
![The Three Wheeled Bicycles of Beijing. 北京的三轮车. [Beijing de san lun che]. THOMAS...](/pictures/thumb/163380.jpg?v=1634613377)
No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa 2010). Photographic illustrations in colour, 61pp, front free endpaper and upper pastedown little rubbed, good. Text in Chinese and English. 16.1 x 24.6cm. Snapshots of life on the streets of Beijing with three wheeled bicycles highlighted. Photographs by Thomas Deighton, Murray..... More
Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1997. Black and white illustrations, biography, ix + 302pp, spine a little faded, a very good paperback copy. This collection of quotations, quips, anecdotes and descriptions conveys the spirit, atmosphere, society, art, and architecture of Beijing from the 14th century to the end of the..... More
New York. Oxford University Press. 1998. Floor plan, pictorial endpapers, colour and black and white illustrations, viii + 88pp, index, selected bibliography, remainder mark lower edge, a little shelf-worn, good hardback copy. 20 x 14cm. Images of Asia series. "Halls of dazzling glory or an 'ill-omened pile of buildings'? A...... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Reprint. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 176pp, portions of dustjacket laid down front free endpaper, spine faded, neat date handwritten on front free endpaper. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two Gentlemen of China. When referring to..... More
London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. [Reprint]. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 175pp, neat signature and date of a prior owner slightly creased front free endpaper, binding patchily faded, upper cover a little marked. Good copy. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two..... More
London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. [Reprint]. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 175pp, carelessly opened pages have left 2 leaves torn at lower corners, binding patchily faded, gilt lettering upper cover, hardback, contents clean and sound. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two..... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Reprint. Colour frontispiece by Chiang Yee, 176pp, good copy in original cloth. Novel by the author of Brave New China, Portrait of a Chinese Lady and Two Gentlemen of China. When referring to this item please quote stockid 140164. More
Beijing. Panda Books. 1982. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 141pp, 12mo, a good copy in paperback. These folk-tales by Jin Shoushen, an old manchu gentleman living in Beijing, were based on the tales told by generations of Beijing story-tellers. First published by the Beijing Publishing House in 1957. When..... More
London. Elek. 1961. Essay on the Art of Peking by Peter C. Swann. Maps, diagrams, colour and black and white illustrations, 227pp, appendices, bibliographical guide, index, endpapers and edges trifle browned, , dustjacket worn and chipped, good hardback copy otherwise. The history and art of Peking. When referring to this..... More
Beijing: Foreign Language and Teaching Press. 2008. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 255pp, introduction in Chinese, very good paperback copy with French flaps. Peking Revisited：Introductory Chapters include: ;In a Peking Garden: How the Court Came back to Peking; Official and Rank Distinctions; Imperial Funeral; Pekingese Dogs and..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1983. Black and white line illustrations, xxii + 239pp + 252pp, index, errata, endpapers slightly foxed, good hardback copy. Volumes I & II of The Adventures of Wu are an entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking, China. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Macdonald. 1962. Black and white illustrations, xi + 224pp, index, little foxing to first & last leaves, dustjacket extremities slightly worn, a good hardback copy. Foreign correspondent's experiences in revolutionary China. When referring to this item please quote stockid 155995. More
San Diego. Thunder Bay Press. 2007. Black and white historical images face modern colour photographic images of the same view, 144pp, index, very good copy in dustjacket. 25 x 28cm. Explore the unique city of Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. Regarded as a political, educational, and..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1979. ix + 129pp, very good hardback in worn dustjacket. Biography. When referring to this item please quote stockid 151619. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1989. Plan, black and white photographic illustrations, 364pp, dustjacket and endpaper glue remnants from when they were stuck together, dustjacket cover patchily sunned, ex-library copy. Winner of The Joseph Levenson Prize, AAS this book was described by John K. Fairbank in The China Quarterly as..... More
Peking. China Booksellers, Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition. Map of Peking, numerous black & white photographicplates and black & white head and tail pieces. xviii + 135pp and errata. Red cloth covered boards decorated and lettered in black, a tiny minor dent to spine edge and endpapers browned, otherwise an extremely..... More
Beijing. Beijing Yanshan Publishing House. 1990. Maps, plans, profuse colour photographic illustrations, 181pp, list of museums in Beijing, a brief Beijing chronology, front free endpaper creased, chop at foot of titlepage, very good copy in slightly worn dustjacket. Text in English and Chinese. Art and architecture from Beijing from the..... More
United Kingdom. British Museum Press. 2005. 78 pages, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, index, notes, paperback, very good copy. The Forbidden City is located in the heart of Beijing/Peking. It has been the focus of authority in imperial China for over six centuries. A city within a city..... More
Beijing: Foreign Language Press. 2001. First edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 223pp, editor's note, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Contents include: Houses in the City; Signs and Signboards; The Missing Couplet; Passion for Paintings. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 168427). More
