Anyang, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition hard cover with dust jacket. DJ shows some wear/tear, mostly around the edges, but is in good shape considering its age. Binding is tight and pages are free from writing/markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Paperback Edition. (1968) 124 pp. Original black and yellow wraps, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ modest edge wear. Light foxing to edges of text block and front endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates and figures.

1st edition. 8vo. [xx] + 304pp. Colour and b/w. illustrations, maps, diagrams. Original gilt lettered black boards with gilt device to upper board and spine. ISBN 0712908048 US$12.

marbled tan & brown 1/2 cloth 8vo. fine cond. a bit darkened with age & spine a bit faded. old ink name on f. flyl. first edition. first printing. collectible copy. xvii+123p. map.biblio. index. 9 figures. 50 b&w plates. ancient history. prehistory. ancient religion. archaeology. ancient china. shang dynasty. chinese bronze age. art history. antiques.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has mild sunning to the book with light fading to the spine, a touch of offsetting to the covers, and faint toning to the page edges, and slight bumps to spine ends and cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy in a price-clipped Good+ dust jacket, which has a light stain to tail of spine that spreads to covers, strong sunning to the spine with offsets to the covers, bumps with short tears to spine ends and corners, and edgewear with some short creased tears to the covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover in black cloth with red top edge stain, has a mild skew to the binding, very slight bumps to spine ends, and a touch of rubbing to the covers, otherwise a solid VG+ copy in a Near VG dust jacket, which has an approx. 3" split to middle of front fold with a thin internal tape repair, slight bumps to spine ends and corners, a touch of edgewear with some rubbing to covers, and faint sunning to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Chilton Books, 1966. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in silver. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, and small nicks. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 182 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. Mostly in Chinese.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Hardback Edition. 245 x 165mm. pp. 304. English text. First hardback edition of 'Anyang' by Li Chi. This volume is a chronicle of the discovery, excavation, and reconstruction of the ancient capital of the Shang Dynasty. Colour and black and white illustrations, including numerous photographs, plans and diagrams. Bound in original black boards. Housed in black pictorial dust jacket. Some foxing to fore-edge of text block and some fading to top edge. Dust jacket has 1cm closed tear to bottom edge, a 5mm closed tear to top edge, and a few small chips. Binding strong. No ownership inscription or underlining. Not price-clipped. See images.

Oln. 1. Auflage. Oln., Kopffarbschnitt, XI, 304 S., silberner Rücken und Deckelprägung recto, 8° (gutes, textsauberes Exemplar). With a foreword by Millard B. Rogers and the author, notes, appendix, bibliography and index, maps, illustrations, also in colour. Sprache: engl., chin. ca. 1500 Gramm. Buch.

Cloth. First edition. vii, 148 pp., 83 leaves of plates. Illus. with 2 tipped-in color and 3 b/w plates (A-E), 79 b/w plates (16 unnumbered, + plus 63 numbered). Folio. Zhongguo kao gu bao gao ji; 2. Archaeologia Sinica: Number Two. Pt. 1. A classified and descriptive account with a corpus of all the main types. A very good copy, boards soiled, wear at one corner, some darkening at the edges.

8vo. pp. 112. illus. (most colour). wrs. First Edition. Exhibition Catalogue.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Ex-library, first edition. Folio. 332pp. + 21 plates. Yellow buckram boards with black lettering on the spine. The work is the second part of vol.1 of the first run of the Archaeologia Sinica series, published by the Academia Sinica, in Taiwan. This volume details the discovery and excavation process used by Li Chi and his team at the famous Shang dynasty archaeological site near Anyang, in Henan province. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous charts, topographic and stratographic maps of the site, and figures shedding light on the physical nature of the site. The volume also includes a section of 21 plates of b/w photographic reproductions on glossy paper, acting as a visual record of the excavation work, methods used and natural surroundings. Text in Chinese. Includes an English-language title page. Binding with some light scratches and smudges to the covers, with some minor rubbing to the corners. Interior with sine light smudges and water stains to the titles pages. Library bookplate at the interior front cover. Binding and interior in very good condition. *(??) Li Ji or Li Chi (1896-1979), was a prominent Chinese archaeologist, who is considered to be the founder of modern Chinese archaeology. He conducted important work in proving the historical foundations of the Shang Dynasty, and was later the first director of the Archaeology department at the Academica Sinica and the National Taiwan University.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio size hardbound volume in pale green gold embossed boards. Boards tight with almost no wear but sticker residue to bottom of spine area. Ex library from famous museum. One bookplate otherwise end papers good and not split. 279 pages some folding and 10 plates to rear. Some wrinkling to pages in rear at bottom. Scarce.

Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding with dust jacket in slip case, [7], 51, 180, 46 pages, very many colour plates, numerous illustrations in the text, very good condition. Text in Chinese only. From the library of Tibetologist Andreas Gruschke (without ownership mark). Very uncommon. Heavy book, additional shipping is likely. zh Gewicht in Gramm: 1900.