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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Text in English and Chinese, Hardcover in silk boards with paper title plate and accordian style binding, has light bow to boards, a few small spots of staining and a couple small smudges to boards, and very slight bumps to board corners with a hint of fraying starting to silk, otherwise a solid VG copy with crisp interior.
Seller: Storm Mountain Books, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. [Color Woodblock Illustrated Chinese Subjects] N.p.: n.p., n.d. [ca 1920-1940?]. Hardcover in silk boards with paper title label. Sm. 4to (about 8 x 6 inches) bound accordion format, original silk over boards with paper title label lettered in Chinese in black and red. 22 pages printed one side on hand made paper, with 10 hand colored, block-printed illustrations on silk. Each illustration is bordered with silk in celery-colored brocade, with top and bottom edges edged with orange paper. Text in Chinese and English, being short biographies for each of 10 different characters pictured. In all, a charming example of early 20th c Chinese printing. Very good overall condition, no ownership marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (cw).
Publication Date: 1950
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. New ed. Undated - possibly c.1950. Bound accordion-style, with brown silk-covered boards, paper title label in black & red Chinese characters, text in Chinese & English on yellow hand-made paper; hand-coloured woodblock prints mounted on figured green brocade; thin brown paper edging to all pages. A very nice copy - do ask for further information or digital images if required.