Peh Chen (15 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Secret of the League by Ernest Bramah Mild crunching at the top and bottom of the spine. Fading on the red color of the spine. Spine cracked, book slightly loose. First Edition Thus. Previous title was "What Might Have Been". This was a source of inspiration for George Orwell's 1984. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in orange cloth with black titles, cloth marked and sunned at spine page edges a little foxed and pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 224 pages, 12 illustrations by Harold W. Hailstone, foreword by Ernest Bramah. Purports to be a Chinese view of London in the 1920's, actually written by an English author (who also wrote a book about Mah Jong) under a pseudonym. Highly amusing.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Bumping. Content is aged toned. Previous owner name to ffep. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harold W. Hailstone(Illustrator) Ernest Bramah(Foreword) (illustrator). First Edition. Honourable And Peculiar Ways by Peh Der Chen Bumping at top and bottom of the spine. With a foreword by Ernest Bramah. BOOK.

orig. cloth binding 8° with dustjacket (good condition) 224 p. S. (the dustjacket is damaged).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Kai Lung: Six by Ernest Bramah LTD #21/250 Bright, clean boards. Unmarked textblock. Lightly tanned pages. Not price-clipped. In protective mylar. Minor shelfwear, Some sort of patterend discoloration to back cover. Limited edition. #21 of 250 total copies. Cloth. Pictorial jacket. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harold H Hailstone (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah Limited double signed A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Mild soiling to spine cloth. Tanning to endpapers and minor foxing to fore and bottom text block edges. Author's gift inscription to his wife on title page. Author's signature to limitation page. A fragile jacket with flaps and spine detached. In clear protective cover. Title page dated 1923. This edition is limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author. "Entirely new edition", Introduction, May 1923. Gray boards with quarter bound beige linen; gilt and black stamped label to spine; fore and bottom text block edges rough trimmed. 299 pp. Stories about the Chinese storyteller Kai Lung. BOOK.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Harold W. Hailstone (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this interesting perspective on life in England, in the scarce dust wrapper and signed by the author. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The first edition of the work in the scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. With twelve illustrations by Harold W. Hailstone. Collated complete. Hailstone was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who served as an official war artist. A humourous book of Chinese impression of England, with a foreword by Ernest Bramah, author of the Max Carrados series. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in lovely condition with just minor shelf wear to the extremities. Dust wrapper is smart with evidence of worming resulting in loss. Handling marks to the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with marginal age toning and the odd spot. Offsetting to endpapers. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

First Edition. Harold W. Hailstone dustjacket art and illustrations. "First book of Chinese impressions of England; it is instructive as well as amusing to see ourselves through Oriental eyes". Forward by Ernest Bramah, author of the famous Max Carrados mystery novels. Includes chapters on Hollywood's characterization of the Chinese, Boxing, Motor Cars, Hunting, Night Clubs and English Law. Fabulous stylized illustrations by Hailstone. Near Fine, contemporary bookplate, in Very Good plus dustjacket, modest darkening to spine, mild shelf wear.