Gray Basil Arthur Waley (3 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. J.B.Vincent (photos) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Quarto hc, gray cloth, 83pp plus color & b/w plates, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with touches of edge wear, bright spine titles, bookplate, foxing to endpapers, Very Good.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. No jacket. As is. Cover has light wear on edges, spine and back. Spine is cracked, with all pages other than page for image 20 secure (creased on bottom edge, tucked into book). Foxing on front and back endpaper, but inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Gray cloth with crimson title block and gilt letters on spine, 86 text pp. plus 70 color and BW plate pages at rear. Based on the photographs taken by John B. Vincent in 1948. Addresses 70 views, with annotations first and then illustrations. The opening narrative covers the organization of the Tun-Huang Buddhist community, the stylistic development of painting, the landscape elements, the Sui and T'ang caves, the paradise paintings, the Lotus Sutra, technique, and more. G+ (No dj; ex-art library with label marks and little writing on covers, a ding to open edge and a bumped corner; bookplates; otherwise only generally aged overall.).