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

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

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

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

New York. Doran. 1921). Maps & tables, illustrations, xxiii + 538pp, index, endpapers foxed, neat inscription front free endpaper. Dark green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on spine faded, head 7 tail of spine and extremities a little rubbed and worn, inner hinges split, text sound and clean. 22 x...... 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, 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

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

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

Macdonald London 1967, 1962. Black and white illustrations, xi + 224pp, index, ownership details of prior owner's front free endpaper, little foxing to first and last leaves and edges, dustjacket little damaged with neat repairs on the reverse, a good hardback copy. Foreign correspondent's experiences in revolutionary China. When referring..... 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

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

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