Arthur Waley Preface (16 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Alex Tsao (Cover Designer) (illustrator). 1st Harper Torchbks Ed. 1959. 212 pp. Slightly worn cover on binding edge. Tightyly bound copy with minimal external use. Clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine. Bright and attractive trade paperback. Nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Stated First Harper Tourchbook Edition (First Thus). Includes Index. Pictorial Wraps With White Titling On The Front And Spine. The Book Has Underlining Throughout. Minor Wear With Crease To The Front Corner. Former Owner's Signature On The Ffep.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9789359448954,226pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition (from Great Britain sheets). Bookplate to the rear pastedown endpaper, a strip of tanning to the endsheets, tiny drip of stain to the fore-edge pages, else very good in yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration; in a very good dust jacket with a mildly tanned spine, tiny bits of chipping to the spine ends, and modest shelf wear. Jacket design by Derek Hill. Published in England by The Golden Cockerel Press in a small limitation, these four stories were originally published towards the end of the Ming Dynasty and according to Dr. Waley superior in every way to similar stories in the Decameron.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, in a near fine slip-case. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Chinese poetry ; Translations into English. English poetry Translations, Chinese. 3 Kg.

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, in a near fine slip-case. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Chinese poetry ; Translations into English. English poetry Translations, Chinese. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. B Chinese lit. This first edition, is very good, no dj. Tight himges, clean bright pages. Red spine, faded gilt title, light hand and tip wear.

Hardcover. Condition: G-. First Edition. Stated first edition. 8vo in publisher's cloth. xxvii, 371 pp. G-. Edge wear to boards with corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Surface tear to cover along spine edge. Front hinge is loose with a split along the top three inches of the gutter at the title page. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. Spine is cocked. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xx + 343pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, index, A classic in the literature on Bali; the first full & connected account of the dances & dance-dramas so important to the lives of the Balinese. Originally published in 1938.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very Good tan cloth with moderate foxing at pagination edges & endpapers. In a Very Good tan dust jacket lettered in red with just a hint of light staining. A handsome copy Inscribed at half-title page "To Jim Wood affectionately con un abraco de Alberto" Laid in is a handwritten card slip addressed "Dear Jim, Alberto was going to give you this early book - but you didn't come to supper, you wicked old recluse. Yrs. Christopher" A unique volume as such. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stUSedn; 8vo natural grain Wood veneer over illus boards with red cloth spine, black spine titles; Corners bumped & rubbed, gilt on spine sl faded, Ded & name on fnt fly; ow VG/ndj: xxvii, 371pp. A condensed one volume trans of Chinese erotic classic: "Hung Lou Meng" aka Story of the Stone; A popular novel written in, and set in, the 18th century (Qing dynasty) about conflicts undermining a sizable household, their rise and fall, contrasted alongside their loyalties to, and their plots against, one another, a microcosm that often mirrors most other extended families of premodern times. Scarce.