Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Slight edge fading to boards and spine. Otherwise clean inside and out. From dust jacket front flap: "In this exquisite memoir, novelist Guanlong Cao sketches the tale of growing up in Shanghai during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution."
Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Rivers Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Spring Books, 1st Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 186 pages. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Red ribbon bookmark attached at spine. Some light tanning from age to edges. Dust jacket has some agewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. With the founding of the Peking Academy of Fine Arts in 1919, a most fruitful and original period of painting began in China, which today shows no sign of diminishing in power and inventiveness.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, May 5, 1992, Book: Very Good, 601 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to edges and covers of pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st U.S.A., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In nearly new condition. In this ground-breaking biography, Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumenal obstacles to change China.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story the most important woman in Chinese history; who ruled for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight fading to dust jacket spine. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Black fabric covers. Author photo glued to page opposite title page and original cover from dust jacket partially glued to title page. Spine slightly cocked. Mostly clean inside with a touch of foxing to endpapers and edges. Original owner inscription on front endpaper dated 1955, and personalized ink stamp on top edge. In very good shape considering age.
Hardcover. London, China Inland Mission, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 511 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light wear and soil to dust jacket with small chunks missing from edges of spine.. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing to textblock edges. Previous owners inscription to A clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 814 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Biography of China's ruthless leader, Mao.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 3rd printing, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 814 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. illustrated with a few plates in b&w. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New London NH, Tiffin Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Insight into China, its history, and the heart, mind and family life of devoted Christian physician. Mild rubbing to boards. Faint soiling to rear panel. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 5th pr., 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages, 16 b&w plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, front cover label with photo illustration. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise very good. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st English, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Translated by Geoffrey Sutton. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Green endpapers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in pen on front flyleaf. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light tanning and a few drops of soil to edges. Pages clean. In great shape. This book covers Mazeaud's mountaineering memories up to and covering the unfortunate and tragic 1971 Everest Expedition.
Hardcover. Sendai, Japan, Tohoku Gakuin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white photos and one color photo. A couple of closed tears on front dust jacket cover and minor edge wear on dust jacket covers, in general. Dust jacket protected by clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1979-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 129 pages. Faint foxing to top edge and upper edges of flaps. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."
Hardcover. New York, M.E. Sharpe, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Captivating autobiography by a Tibetan educator and former political prisoner. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. With black-and-white photography throughout. Unmarked and scarce. A tight copy.
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