Introduction Shih (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. Light Blue Cloth with titles in yellow on spine and front board. Corners slightly bumped. Light foxing throughout.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 10.00x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 10.00x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

[0-88884-446-8] 1980. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 131pp. 4to. Stiff card covers. Billingual gallery catalogue created for the exhibition which celebrated the National Gallery of Canada's one hundred years of connection with Canadian contemporary art. Related ephemera laid in.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 312 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). Chinese pirate ediion, printed and bound in Taiwan; Upper coutside corner of ffep is torn out; Rear free endpaper has a dime-sized hole in the center from hot wax? Textblock overall is clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner rubbed; Dust jacket, in mylar, edge and corner worn and rubbed. 298p., including extensive glossary and index. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" Tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Previous owner's name on front endpaper; light rubbing to board corners; else a clean, solid hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($2.75) and presents well under fresh archival mylar despite several small chips along the panel edges and corner folds. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in attractive jacket. 306pp.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ivory canvas cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered blue back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. 1 of 1500 copies. Contains (xxxix), 173 pp bilingual text. A small rodent has gnawed away to the bottom corner of the front board, in dust wrapper with similar gnawing to the paper, not price clipped, HK$25. Dust wrapper protected. SIGNED by John Cairncross to the front free end paper 'To Keith Abercrombie (author of 'A History of Sperlonga') as a fellow enthusiast and a contributor to my preface | John Cairncross - 20th November 1967.' Member of the P.B.F.A. CHINA & CHINESE HISTORY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. xlvi, 298pp. Book.

Softcover. Tall quarto, unpaginated. In Good plus condition. Spine is exposed textblock with green thread stitching. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities, moderate soiling and damp staining along front cover, severe sunning to front cover and mild sunning along head edge of rear cover. Text block mildly age toned, has mild bending wear to fore corners, and moderate water warping to pastedowns (interior unaffected). Shelved in locked annex - Q+F. 1395505. FP New Rockville Stock.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. 2ème Édition. Paris 1978. 1 Volume/1. Broché cousu. Sans la jaquette. Format 20 x 12,5 cm ( 720 gr ). ------- 740 pages + 5 figures et 2 cartes Hors-Texte en cahier central.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Comes in slip case. Very small rips to dustjacket, which is now in protective brodart cover; inside front flap of dustjacket is slightly frayed. Interior is unmarked and like new. Not ex-library; from private collection.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover book First Edition in FINE / as NEW condition; dust jacket has a short tear and "scrunch" on the top edge of jacket rear, otherwise is very clean and unmarked; slipcase is VG++ with very light rubbing and soil.

First edition of White's fine photographic study of the monuments of Shanghai. Folio, original royal blue embroidered silk pictorial boards, illustrated with seventy mounted color and monochrome photographic plates of the celebrated monuments of China's Northern Capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes by Herbert C. White, Art Director of Signed of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Hu Shih, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's box. Very rare in such fine condition. Herbert C. White (1896-1962) arrived in China in 1922, together with his twin brother James H. White (1896-1954). They opened a language school in Beijing. Attracted by Chinese landscapes and civilization, they used their vacations to travel around the country and took large numbers of photographs. This album is a selection of photographs of the city gates and walls, the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, and the temples and monasteries of Beijing. It presents a realistic view of the city's appearance during the early Republican era. From the preface: "For a long time there has been a recognized need for an album on historic Peking that would embody a representative set of all the important monuments of the capital. The very fact that so many of the ancient landmarks . are being torn from their foundations and ruthlessly destroyed, makes an album of this kind not only interesting as an art volume, but a work of immeasurable value to China and to the world, as an authentic record of picturesque Peking.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First edition. Elephant Folio. 154 (1)pp. Original Royal Blue brocade, with lettering, imagery and decorative frame woven into covers; housed in custom-made black cloth slipcase. Frontispiece. Historiated initials at acknowledgments, introduction and preface, historiated initials and endpiece drawings on text pages. Comprising Seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and Its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih. Printed in b/w collotype. Working as missionaries for eight years the White brothers Herbert Clarence and John Henry took more than four thousand photographs of the city, establishing schools to train young Chinese men and women in employable skills. "Students were taught to print and hand-color their photographs in oil. after 1930 the brothers relocated themselves and their publishing concern to ST. Helena, California. The sepia photos in this volume, each highlighted by a decorative border and captioned simply in Chinese only, are described extensively on facing pages in English. The "northern capital" of the subtitle is Bejing, referencing the shift of 1927, when the Republicans moved the seat of government to Nanjing (southern capital"). It was returned to Bejing in 1937, ending the so-called "Nanjing Decade." This decade roughly corresponds to the period when the White brothers lived in Bejing and photographed a truly beautifuland now irreparably alteredincarnation of the city that is known today almost solely through old photographs such as theirs." Parr & Lundgren, The Chinese Photobook, pages 44-47. An exceptional copy of this intricate photographic homage to the Forbidden City. Slipcase near perfect. Spine lightly cocked and light scuffing with some very light foxing on endpapers and foredge.