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New York: Praeger, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Second edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover browned at edges, spine browned, spine twist. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Frederick a. Praeger, Inc, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good minus Hardcover, reprint, no dustwrapper. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, worn along bottom of front cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

NY.: Frederick A. Praeger., (1954).. Beige buckram.. Light cover soil along extremities, light marginalia in pencil: about VG+/Fair dj.. 8vo. Numerous illustrations on coated stock + maps & 2 fold-outs following the text..

The Cresset Press, 1950. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:

Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Very good+. Barrie & Jenkins, c1935, 1978 printing. 624pp., index, black and white illustrations, one fold-out plate, map. 8vo. Small sticker "shadow" upper edge of first page, else fine unread hardcover in Very Good+ d/j with minor edgewear.

Hardcover. 624p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Spine slightly cockeyed and endpapers lightly tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has some light edgewear, light dampstains on the reverse side, and a small closed tear. Contains a small foldout map in back, plus numerous black and white illustrations. Text in English, but publication information in Chinese. Published ca. 1960; the preface is dated 1953.

The Cresset Press, London, 1958. Reprint, orig. published 1935.. Hardcover. Good. Cloth, out of print, 621 pages, ink underlining between pages 552-580, otherwise very good with very good dust jacket.

London: The Cresset Press, 1954. Reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo, xviii, 621 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine gray with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Moderate plus wear and soiling exteriorly with minor edge wear. Boards have sunned and minor frays to head/tail edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges with several instances of notations interiorly and tiny chip to head edge to half title and frontispiece. Slight offsetting to few first/last pages. Illustrated. Reprinted. 1370707. FP New Rockville Stock.

London: The Cresset Press, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Reprint, 1954, hardcover with beige cloth boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 621pp., illustrated in b&w including fold out map and illustration at rear. Book VG with mild flair to front board, binding tight, front endpapers off-set and signed by previous owner, otherwise text clean and unmarked, with faint foxing to top edge of text block. DJ VG+ with toning, mild edgewear.

London: The Cresset Library, 1986. xx, 624pp, index, bw ills, maps. Or card covers. Light stain to margin of first couple of pages, bump at top front of spine. Originally published in 1935. Syntheseis of Chinese cultural history showing the development of culture, religion, literature and art in China from pre-history to the later 19th century. These developments are set against an outline history of political and social events and emphasizes the importance of China's early contacts with the Roman orient and Middle East.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Very Good. 8vo.

appleton-century, 1938 hardback book in very good condition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: The Cresset Press, (1954). Reprint.. Royal 8vo. xx + 621 pp. 20 plates; frontis. Profusely illus in text from drawings and maps; one fold-out. Fold-out plate at rear has two short tears to edge. Grey cloth. Botttom edge rubbed. Small ink name stamp on foredge and top edge. A ve. ry good copy in worn dustwrapper with mylar cover..

Barrie and Jenkins, London, fourth edition, revised, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xviii, [ii], 624 pp, ills, plates. This book, which is intended for the reader who has not made a special study of Chinese culture, traces the history of Chinese civilization from prehistoric times down to the latter part of the nineteenth century. The book is divided into seven parts, each covering a major epoch of Chinese history. While the political and dynastic history is given only in outline, omitting detail and avoiding a plethora of unfamiliar names, cultural and economic conditions are treated more fully. In each part there are chapters on art, literature, and religion treating with special attention the most significant developments of the period under discussion. Economic conditions as recorded in Chinese sources arc given full consideration in separate chapters. A special feature has been made of the contacts between China and foreign countries in ancient and mediaeval times. In these chapters Chinese accounts… Read More

New York: Praeger Publishers. New with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Praeger. 1958. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition w ith clean text, firm binding. .

New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. NEAR-FINE IN VERY GOOD+ DJ WITH ORIGINAL $7.50 PRICE, SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE AND SLIGHT EDGE WEAR. FOLD-OUT MAP AND PRINT PRESENT IN FINE CONDITION. A very nice copy of the scarce first American edition.

UsedGood. Ex-library book. Stated third edition in good condition. Minor wear/discoloration on cover but pages are in great condition!

London: The Cresset Press, 1935. Illustrated with 21 plates, 66 text illustrations and 19 maps, large 8vo, pp xx, 614, fore-edge a little foxed, otherwise a good sound copy internally, cloth very slightly worn, the spine age-toned and with very faint lettering. [From the library of the botanist Desmond Clarke with his pencilled signature and an ink address and date on the front endpaper; there is a fair bit of marginal lining, and some underlining, in the text, in both ink and pencil. The earlier pages have pencilled notes, which have been left as they are of interest.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

New York 1938, Appleton. Green cloth, very good, 615p., 82 b.w. illustrations, 25 b.w. photos, 19 b.w. maps, 1 folding, index, bookplate, top & bottom signatures rubber stamped. Entitled "Short" but nicely detailed, covering feudal China, the first empire, the age of confusion including discussion of Buddhism, Taoism, the T'ang empire and its art, the Sung dynasty & Sung painting, architecture in the Ming Dynasty, China under the Manchus, &c. A masterpiece of scholarship! .