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First Emperor, The: China's Terracotta Army


Portal, Jane (Editor)

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.

Record # 32302


Price: $31.00 

 

Folk-Lore of China, The


Dennys, N.B.

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.

Record # 951067


Price: $23.00 

 

Treasures From the Bronz Age of China


Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paperback. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st pbk, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An exhibition from the People's republic of China, Mostly color plates, 192 pgs, light cover rubbing otherwise

Record # 19908


Price: $15.00 

 

Jades From China (The Museum of East Asian Art) (Chinese Text)


Forsyth, Angus, Brian McElney

Hardcover. Bath, England, Museum of East Asian Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover. Chinese text. Tan, embossed cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright, binding tight, spine straight. Beautiful volume published to accompany exhibition at the Museum of east Asian Art in Bath, England on June 11, 1994.

Record # 31839


Price: $50.00 

 

Quest for Eternity, The: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China


Caroselli, Susan L.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover. French flaps, unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition, clean inside and out. Published to accompany traveling exhibition March 22, 1987-April 10, 1988.

Record # 30648


Price: $13.00 

Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei Hearn, Maxwell K.
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Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei


Hearn, Maxwell K.

softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Color photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 468505


Price: $15.00 

 

Fine Chinese Decorative Works of Art, Paintings and Furniture - Including China Trade Paintings - October 12 and 13, 1984 - Sale #5220


Sotheby's

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.

Record # 611115


Price: $38.00 

 

Contemporary Chinese Painting


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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.

Record # 33436


Price: $38.00 

 

China Trade, The - Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects


Crossman, Carl L.

Princeton, Pyne, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white and Color photos and illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. 275 pages.

Record # 201272


Price: $26.00 

 

Treasures of China (2 Vols.)


Wu (Ed.), Ting Sing

Hardcover. Taiwan, International Culture Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two large hardcover volumes. Vol. 1: Calligraphy & painting, oracle bones to 1911. Vol. 2: bronze, jade, ceramics, laquer, sculpture, cave shrines. 232, 125 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Books very good, dust jackets with edgewear. Expect extra charges for international shipping. Text in English and Chinese.

Record # 410575


Price: $88.00 

 

China diary


Spender, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452855


Price: $20.00 

 

China, 5,000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts


Lee, Sherman E. (Editor)

Softcover. Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large oversized volume. Light wear and rubbing to wrappers and slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458957


Price: $50.00 

 

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (The Culture & Civilization of China)


Barnhart, Professor Richard

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1997-10-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464216


Price: $63.00 

 

China - Treasure and Splendors


Congyun, Lei/Yang Yang

Softcover. Montreal, Palais de la Civilisation, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Full color illustrations. Very minimal wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608142


Price: $12.00 

 

Fine Chinese Works of Art, Paintings and Furniture including China Trade Paintings, Chinese Export and Decorative Arts - New York - March 16 and 17, 1984 - Sale Number 5158


Sotheby's

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.

Record # 611813


Price: $63.00 

 

Way of the Brush - Painting Techniques of China and Japan, The


Van Briessen, Fritz

Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612841


Price: $31.00 

 

Early American Pottery and China


Spargo, John

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 393 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket. Stamp on rear fly leaf. Small stains to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809228


Price: $15.00 

 

First Emperor of China - The Geatest Archeological Find of Our Time


Cotterell, Arthur

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 208 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 302201


Price: $15.00 

 

Son of Heaven - Imperial Arts of China by: Thorp, Robert l.

Paperback. Seattle, Son of Heaven Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs of Chinese Paintings, Pottery, Bronze, Jade, Armor, and more. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604365
Price: $12.00 

 

Business History Review: Spring 2005


Harvard Business School

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles on the Bell System 1877-1929, Book-keeping in early 20th century China.

Record # 809323


Price: $12.00 

 

Arts of Asia - March-April 1985


Nguyet, Tuyet

Softcover. Hong Kong, Arts of Asia Publications, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art periodical in color wrappers. Illustrated in color and b&w. Articles on: MOA Museum of Art at Atami, Yokohama Prints, Aesthetics of Tsuba, Tatsuzo Shimaoka Japanese Potter, Miniatures of Japanese Bamboo Art, Betel Leaf Holders. Book and auction reviews, gallery ads, collector's column.

Record # 606449


Price: $12.00 

 

Chinese Export Art: Sale 23 January 2001


Christie's

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages with 308 lots, color photos. An auction catalog featuring Chinese objects of art.

Record # 402292


Price: $18.00 

Costumes from the Forbidden City Priest, Alan
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Costumes from the Forbidden City


Priest, Alan

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an original catalog of an exhibition that was held from early March to early May 1945 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. illustrated throughout with 56 b/w photographic plates depicting fine examples of Imperial and consort robes, as well as numerous details showing the development of wave, cloud, and mountain forms. Clean copy.

Record # 412907


Price: $35.00 

Early Chinese Texts on Painting by: Bush, Susan Shih, Hsio-yen
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Early Chinese Texts on Painting by: Bush, Susan Shih, Hsio-yen

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
Price: $20.00