Presentation Commentary Joseph Vedlich (5 results)
Language: English
Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crescent Books 1979
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- First Edition
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, U.S.A.Arnold M. Herr
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st English-language edition. Quarto. Color illustrations. Condition: light wear & soiling to DJ; else near fine in very good DJ. 124 pages.
Language: English
Published by NY. 1979. Crescent Books / Crown Publishing / Liber SA / Editions Minerva 1979
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tan hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. tiny scratch on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1" tear at spine top, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean c…opy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first english edition. first printing (letter "a" in letter line). ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. color decorative endpapers. 124p. glossy pages throughout. every page illustrated in full glossy color. art history. chinese history. painting. philosophy. chinese literature. poetry. ~This book contains reproductions, with commentaries, of plates from a treatise of Chinese painting first published in 1619 and which always been considered as a classic in China. These plates have often been reproduced in the West, but very rarely in color; the color transparencies used in our edition were made specially for us by the British Museum. In addition the book contains some outstandingly beautiful plates from the Kaempfer Series, a famous collection of ancient Chinese lithographic masterpieces, also provided by the British Museum, as well as the complete reproduction of a work entitled Perfect Harmony (Musee Guimet des Arts d'Orient, Paris), which has never been reproduced before. Most of the plates include a short poem in Chinese characters, for which a translation is of course provided. The reproductions are accompanied by quotations from Confucius, Meng T'Seu, etc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Color illustrations throughout. Translated by Peter J. Tallon. First printing thus. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
Language: English
Published by Liber 1979
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Add to basketBrown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 124 pp, send e-mail for details.NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATES! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12".
More imagesThe Ten Bamboo Studio: A Chinese Masterpiece [VINTAGE 1979] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Vedlich, Joseph (presentation and commentary); Tallon, Peter J. (translation)
Language: English
Published by Crescent Books, New York 1979
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition gold cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction Presentation by Joseph Vedlich; Acknowledgments; Selected classical Chinese texts from The Great Study, The Con…stant Middle, and Conversations between Confucius and his Disciples; and Plates from the Kaempfer Series and Perfect Harmony: Selected Texts from Meng - T' seu. Translated by Peter J. Tallon. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of plates from a treatise of Chinese painting first published in 1619, plus color front and rear endpapers. All pages are sown into the binding (not glued). All pages are in as new condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition. (see photographs). Printed in Italy. "First English Edition" and first printing per the copyright page. "This book contains reproductions, with commentaries, of plates from a treatise of Chinese painting first published in 1619 and which always been considered as a classic in China. These plates have often been reproduced in the West, but very rarely in color; the color transparencies used in our edition were made specially for us by the British Museum." -- from the inner front jacket flap. Productions Liber SA (book design) (illustrator).
