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1955UYUYFAM00jknPocket Books 1955. Very Good. Yuyang Lin. Famous Chinese Short Stories. New York: Pocket Books 1955. 3000pp. 16mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Edges bumped and corners worn. Pocket Books paperback books
1334178n. p.: n. publ n. d. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 348; G/G-; green/white spine with black text; dust jacket shows slight shelf wear to exterior; few chips to exterior; mylar wrap; cloth shows clean exterior; strong boards; text block exterior edges have slight foxing; minor ink to ffep; frontispiece; illustrated; modest tone to interior; good binding. 1334178. FP New Rockville Stock. n. publ hardcover books
1939219052New York 1939. Bust portrait of the author. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. approximately 13-7/8 x 11 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in ink giving the name of the sitter the date of the session and the reference to negative and print "X - 9 - 17". Bust portrait of the author. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. approximately 13-7/8 x 11 inches. unknown books
19611336463n.p.: n.publ 1961. Hardcover. 10mo; G/G-; pp 494; beige spine with black and red text; first edition; dust jacket has some modest shelf wear to exterior; few chips to edges; cloth has slightly sunned spine; sturdy boards; text block edges have slight toning to exterior; mild shadow toning to endpapers; partial cracking to front hinge at ffeps; tight binding; illustrated with some Chinese text. 1336463. FP New Rockville Stock. n.publ hardcover 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
1937140941118New York: John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock 1937. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing; limited issue. Copy number 9 of a limited 500 signed by Lin Yutang. Specially bound in publisher's original buckram cloth stamped in red over red leather spine decorated in gilt with gilt-lettered title label; top edges gilt and with red ribbon marker; in publisher's original red paper-covered card slipcase with bronze paper title label on front panel printed in red black and white. Near Fine with some darkening and light edge wear to leather spine in a Near Fine slipcase with light rubbing and wear and light darkening. One of the influential Chinese author inventor philosopher and linguist's best-selling work. John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock unknown books
1936183179Shanghai China: The Commercial Press 1936. Hardcover. VG-/VG- both volumes are clean with tight binding previous owner's name on front end pages light age toning. dust jackets have light scuffing and fading. Two volumes bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front covers and spines; tan dust jackets with black lettering. First series: x 299 pp. The second series is x 258 pp. "These essays represent selections from the 'Little critic' which was first started on June 16 1930 and has ever since remained a constant feature of The China Critic." -Preface. The Commercial Press hardcover books
193840907NY: Modern Library 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. 290pp. "H" stamp on front free endpaper else a very good hardback in a price clipped rubbed and edgeworn jacket that has a small sticker emoval scar at the top of the front flap. <br/><br/> Modern Library hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
F18A-01694Grosset & Dunlap. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Grosset & Dunlap 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
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
20049015711Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2004. paperback. Near fine condition. 31st edition <br/><br/> Lippincott Williams & Wilkins paperback books