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.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog. 278 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Sotheby's auction catalog Sale #5220 - October 12 and 13, 1984. Illustrated with primarily black & white photographs, some color, and one full color fold-out. Crease at top right edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Includes Sale Results list. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press/British Museum Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, extremely good condition. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 9/13/07-4/6/08. The tomb of the first emperor of China, which the Terracotta Warriors protect, has become the most important ongoing excavation in China and possibly the world.
Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom Inc., 1st reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Compilation of articles from the China Review. "The Folk-Lore of China, and its Affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic Races", was originally published in 1876. Light foxing to bottom page block. Otherwise, an unmarked, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Hong Kong , John Warner Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout, with two pages of b&w maps. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Gilt titles on spine. Faint odor, foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hard cover with dust jacket in near fine state. 161 illustrations, 55 plates in full color, 244 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index.
New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, b & w illustrations by Kurt Wiese, very clean, tight copy, slight age-tanning to end papers, chipping and small taped tears to dust jacket.