Chen Ming, Signed (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on half title page. (art, paintings).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stout, Virginia Hollinger; Chen Chao-ming (illustrator). Second Edition. First book for adults by this Newbery-award-winning author, a collection of vignettes representing 10 characters who might be found in 20th-century China: scholar, merchant, tailor, coolie, postman, beggar, clerk, woman, child, & foreigner. Each is illustrated with full-page portraits drawn by Virginia Hollinger Stout, complemented in the margins with the delicate calligraphy of Chen Chao-ming. SIGNED by BOTH the author & calligrapher in multiple gift inscriptions in front matter. In 267 pages, including list of Chinese words in rear. Orig. published in 1938, this is the Second Edition (nd). Octavo (6.75" x 9.25") with black cloth over boards, stamped with gilt calligraphy to front/gilt lettering inside red title box to spine, is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean & bright, red topstain unfaded, binding strong & straight, pages mildly tanned but completely unmarked. The price-clipped DJ is VG- (minus), with modest rubbing & creasing to extremities, a few very short, unclosed tears, 1/2" missing chip from head of spine; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Original brown cloth stamped in gold. Signed by the artist.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. ; Signed by artist. ; 1.5 x 12 x 11.3 Inches; 271 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover. Quarto, [179] pages; VG; bound purple Chinese silk binding, stamped in gold, silk decorated with decorated with both swastikas and sauwastikas, tied binding; housed in publisher's worn cardboard box, with broken ties, cracking, and tape repairs; upper fore corner of front board toned, with edges lightly toned; Printed on double leaves; Inscribed by Kate Kerby on the ffep; shelved case 11. 1365005. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.