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2014147937Seoul Korea: Gallery Skape 2014. Softcover. VG. Color pictorial wraps French flaps 54 pp. color illus. Text is in English Korean and Chinese. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition featuring paintings by Chinese artist Zhang Yingnan b. 1981. With essays by Somi Sim and Vincent Lin. Catalogue lists 35 works and many if not all are pictured here. Includes chronology. Thought provoking! Scarce. Gallery Skape paperback books
SKU1032167Pathway Publishers. Hardcover. Good. B00113Q3V0 Red cloth boards are clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor wear. Pathway Publishers hardcover books
1997USOUMOR00DGPathway 1997. Fine. Souliere Lin Illustrator. More Busy Times. Aylmer Ontario: Pathway 1997. 288pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with very light bumping to corners. Pathway hardcover books
1972148888Hong Kong: Kwong Ming Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. <br/><br/>In early 20th century China a worker accidentally kills his boss in a fight. He flees to Thailand with his friends where they are forced to fight in an underground fighting ring. <br/><br/>14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and occasional light foxing. Kwong Ming Film unknown books
2013407146Milan: Charta / Asia Society 2013. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 136 pages. 91 color illustrations. Pictorial boards. "One of only a few internationally recognized female artists from China Lin Tianmiao born 1961 is known for her innovative use of thread and embroidery as both medium and subject matter in her sculptures photographs videos and installations. When visiting China after having lived in New York for most of her life Tianmiao was reminded of the time spent in her childhood helping her mother sew clothes for the family. Prompted by this memory the artist created a practice she calls "thread winding" where she winds silk or cotton thread around an object until it is completely covered and eventually transformed. Bound Unbound which accompanies the artist's exhibition at the Asia Society in New York surveys for the first time the past 20 years of Tianmiao's work including an interview with the artist and essays by leading scholars in Chinese contemporary art Melissa Chiu and Guo Xiaoyan" the publisher. <br/><br/> Charta / Asia Society hardcover books
1974196892San Francisco: San Francisco State University Journalism Dept 1974. Magazine. 72p. 8x10.75 inches articles photos cartoons very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Articles on Ferlinghetti the SF Zoo Left of the Left - a view of the SLA etc. San Francisco State University, Journalism Dept unknown books
1947173559Zurich: Amstutz Herdig & Co 1947. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. VG-. Oversized brown cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering with two ivory clasps. 12 pages. Eight facsimile reproductions in color. "The orignials of these pictures are painted on paper and silk in the water-colour technique customary only in China. They form part of The Lin Shih-Lu Collection at Foochow and are reproduced with the permission of their owner all except No. 8 appearing for the first time. The Chinse title was written by Professor Lin Chun: 'From the Shih-Lu Collection.' The red stamp on the third page is the stamp of the Lin family of Foochow: 'The Descendants of The Yin House.' This book was awarded a prize at the 1944 Swiss Book Exhibitino for the Artistic Excellence of its Production." Amstutz, Herdig & Co hardcover books
20049015711Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2004. paperback. Near fine condition. 31st edition <br/><br/> Lippincott Williams & Wilkins paperback books
1993259739Shandong province: Shandong xinwen chuban ju 1993. 21p. staplebound wraps very good. Illustrated in color and black and white. One of 200 copies printed. Bilingual text. Published in the year the artist immigrated to the United States; she became the director and instructor of the Asian Arts Studio. Shandong xinwen chuban ju unknown books
2014151286Taichung Taiwan: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 2014. Softcover. VG. Yellow and color illus. wraps French flaps 96 pp. 58 color plates. Text is in Chinese and English. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition of colorful paintings depicting scenes of nature and/or silence by Taiwanese artist Wang Shou-Ying b. 1934. With an essay by Lin Wen-Hai. 58 stunning examples of his artwork. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
F18A-01694Grosset & Dunlap. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
201271135NY:: Scholastic Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2012. Hardcover. 9780545298872 . First printing. SIGNED and dated by Henry Winkler on the title page in the year of publication. Publisher's promotional bookmark laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Scholastic Press, hardcover books
1967137473New York: Avalon Books 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. Light hearted space opera about amoeba-like shape-shifting creatures from Saturn who plan to take control of a planetoid in the asteroid belt which is really the technologically advanced space ship of an ancient alien race and destroy Earth using its super weapons. A sequel to DESTINY'S ORBIT 1961. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some mild rubbing. #137473 Avalon Books unknown books
2015151415Taichung Taiwan: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 2015. Softcover. VG. Gold and white and color illus. wraps French flaps 64 pp. color illus. The majority of the text is in Chinese with art titles and the main essay also in English. Issued in conjunction with a 2015-2016 exhibition of self-portraits rendered by a variety of Asian artists. With essays by Li-Chuan Emily Wu and Sih-Yu Lin. Interesting. Scarce. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
2013138506Taiwan: Taibei Shi 2013. Softbound. VG small corner bumps. Blue wraps with color illustration 306 pp. profusely illustrated many color plates. Catalogue for a major solo retrospective exhibition organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum offering a comprehensive study of Hsin-yueh Lin's artistic thought and works. Lin's assiduous efforts with both brush and pen have profoundly influenced several different periods of Taiwanese modern art. For half a century he has built up a copious significant collection of paintings and publications. From a body of 260 paintings both oil and watercolor 140 works or sets of works were selected for inclusion in the exhibition produced from the mid-1960s up to 2012. Taibei Shi paperback books
197234879Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1972. First American Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers with French flaps; 81pp. Cover wraps slightly rolled at margins else a clean Near Fine copy. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
2017169052Taipei: Tapei Fine Arts Museum 2017. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 2 through May 22 2016. Text in English and Chinese. Prefaces by Ping Lin and Manray Hsu. Text by Hong-Jong Lin. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and with some inserts. A fine copy in wrappers and with mylar dust jacket. An interesting production. Uncommon. Tapei Fine Arts Museum unknown books
2010102301New York: James Cohan Gallery Shanghai 2010. Softbound. VG. In Chinese and English. Tan printed wraps. 79 pp. many color plates. Published on the occasion of his second exhibition at James Cohan Gallery's New York location the catalogue presents a collection of Ji's works from 2006 to the present along with a collage of varying sources of inspiration that he as collected: blog posts poems ancient ghost stories and excerpts of news articles. - from the introduction. James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai unknown books
195949648Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company 1959. Third printing. Hardcover. Very good-/Good. The Personal Account of a Distinguished PhilosopherÕs Spiritual Pilgrimage Back to Christianity. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company 1959. Third printing. 254 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Scattered light pencil markings some yellowing of front flap less to back flap. Small tear & wear to top back of dj else a clean solid copy. Very good-/Good. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
1983024122New York: Greenwich House 1983. 227p. 119 illus. of which 52 in color dj quarto format. Greenwich House unknown books
1961007041New York: Crown Publishers 1961. With an essay on the art of Peking by Peter C. Swann. 227p. colored and b/w illus. quarto format original cloth. Crown Publishers unknown books
1972049006Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong 1972. lxvi 1720p. original burgundy dloch thick quarto format. Chinese University of Hong Kong unknown books
197246549Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1972. Thick 4to pp. lxvi 1720; text in triple column light wear to extremities else very good in original black cloth-backed red boards with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. <br/><br/> The Chinese University of Hong Kong hardcover books
2311917New York: John Day Company 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Spine and boards soiled page ridges faintly foxed ink name on FFE. 1939 Hard Cover. 815 pp. "A tale of rich Chinese families living in 'interesting times'. Written by Lin Yutang who played a major role in representing Chinese culture to the western reader in the 20th century. John Day Company hardcover books
193926218Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh 1939. Special Authorized Edition. Thick octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth in red printed dust jacket; 14815pp. Jacket a touch worn at spine crown spine a shade faded; inoffensive bubbling to rear cover cloth some dust-soiling to extremties else A Very Good or better copy. Contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown. "Special Authorized China Edition" - upper jacket panel. Epic novel set in China between 1900 and 1938 beginning with the Boxer Uprising and covering the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 the Warlord Era 1916-1928 the rise of communism and the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War and subsequently World War II. First published the same year in the United States four years after Yutang left China in 1935. In preparation for writing a work of fiction set in China but written in the English language Yutang prepared himself by translating into English passages from the 18th-century Chinese literary masterpiece Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber. Kelly & Walsh unknown books