Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. White boards, orange cloth spine, silver lettering. Pictorial dust jacket. Record # 803506
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd Pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some mild discoloration, but are otherwise in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book collects important Chinese writings about painting, from the earliest examples through the fourteenth century, allowing us to look at the art of this rich era as it was seen and understood in the artists' own times. Clean copy. Record # 34123
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt lettering. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Very good color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 40244
Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, The University of Michigan Press, 2nd Pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book applies new critical methods to medieval works in the genre known as Music Bureau poetry (or yuefu shi), stripping away layers of ossified conventional reading to expose the genre's vital core. Author's inscription to the previous owner was written on a post-it note on the title page. Inscription reads: "The acknowledgments are perhaps worth a look--the rest is downhill. Yours, Joseph R. Allen. Clean copy. Record # 34238
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, b & w and color photos, part of The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques, prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 800834
Softcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 2nd Pr., 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 783 pages, soft cover. Covers have edge wear and rubbing, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is primarily a study of the administrative apparatus which helped the emperors to assure obedience and forestall rebellions, but it is also an extended study of Chinese society in the nineteenth century. Clean copy. Record # 34480
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801167
Hardcover. US, Little, Brown, 1st, 2002-01-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462702
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468357
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Overall, a tight clean copy. Record # 458925
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