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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 9971491184. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Dragon Book. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Browning and a small ink mark to spine of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Here is the very soul of China reflected in all its varying moods and phases. This book is a veritable treasure-chest of gems from Chinese literature. Now gay, now serious, now witty and now poetical, it touches on every conceivable subject and aspect of Chinese life. Whatever the new China, whose destiny is now being worked out, may be like, The Dragon Book will be a lasting memorial to the civilization of a great people which endured throughout the centuries. The many illustrations thoughout the text are taken from old Chinese books dating back to the seventeenth century. Illustrations. 367 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Black and white line text illustrations, xii + 377pp, indices, bibliography, name and date front free endpaper, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper, light foxing edges and front endpapers, mark upper cover, minor repairs to worn dustjacket. Contents clean and sound. "Weaving with threads of travellers' tales and extracts from the literature and the folklore of the countries concerned, (the author) has produced a colourful tapestry of the life, culture and thought of the East and the South Seas." Publisher's description.…