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199719910Niwot: Roberts Rinehart Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 1570981507 . 89 duotone photo postcards from America circa 1907 to 1920. First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Roberts Rinehart Publishers hardcover books
1994162535Taibei 1994. 83p. mostly photographs text in Chinese and English very good in wraps inscribed by the artist in Chinese next to her photo on the page facing the table of contents. Collection of colorful and often three-dimensional works of art formed from dyed and carved leather. unknown books
1994140267Hong Kong: Eastern Renaissance Pictures 1994. Vintage Hong Kong film poster for the 1994 film. <br/><br/>Chow Yun-fat plays a Chinese American CIA operative tasked with escorting a Chinese national treasure to the US. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches. A small tear to the margin else Near Fine. Eastern Renaissance Pictures unknown books
199610791012 double leaf pages. Honolulu: Manoa Press 1996. 12 double leaf pages with 1 folding leaf of the original Chinese text. Rust colored handmade paper cover with paper label on front. Includes a printed announcement for the book with a handwritten note from the author. Fine as issued. § Numbered 31 of 52 copies. This is a translation of a page from the T’ang Ch’i Shuo Strange Stories from the T’ang Dynasty. Manoa Press unknown books
1972148872Taiwan: Hua Hsia Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for Hong Kong release of the 1972 Taiwanese film here under the title "Deadly Fists." With an English language synopsis on one side. <br/><br/>A young woman is sent by her father to discover the secret of a martial artist's fighting style but falls in love with him instead. Meanwhile another woman seeks the same man to enact revenge for killing her father. <br/><br/>10.75 x 7.75 inches. About Fine. Hua Hsia Film unknown books
1922176272London: John Lane 1922. Hardcover. Good chipping and wear to spine overall shelfwear to boards corners bumped age tanning to pages but pages are clear. Black boards with gilt lettering and color illustration on front cover black and gold illustrated end pages 35 1 pages plates 1 color mounted. Translated from the French by James A. Graham. With illustrations from paintings sketches and crayon drawings by Alexandre Jacovleff. Discusses various aspects of the Chinese theatre. John Lane hardcover books
1992007515Oxford England: Oxford University Press 1992. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. viii 151 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear and one tiny tear; protected in archival mylar. Contains 140 illustrations in color. China Chinese Nature Photographs Photography. Oxford University Press Hardcover books
1968167259New York: Frank Caro Gallery 1968. Paperback. G. Covers are tanned more heavily near spine. Light creasing on front cover. Red writing from previous owner inside front cover otherwise clean and tight throughout. Cream stapled wraps with black lettering color illustrations. 29 pp. BW frontispiece and 9 BW 10 color plates. Cover title: Recent Paintings by Chang Dai-Chien. Catalogue for an exhibition held at Frank Caro Gallery October 5-26 1968; S.H. Mori Gallery in Chicago November 2-23 1968; and Alberts-Langdon Gallery in Boston November 30-December 14 1968. A Note on Chang Dai-chien written by Lin Yutang; Introduction to Exhibition of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien written by Wen Fong. Also contains a biography. This catalogue lists names and dimensions of 56 works of which 20 are shown one on cover. This is a beautiful rare catalogue of this prodigious Chinese artist published around his 70th birthday. Frank Caro Gallery paperback books
196737132Hong Kong: Published by The East Society Printed by Sing Cheong Printing Co. Ltd 1967. 1st edition. Wrappers with printed dust jacket. Clear malleable plastic dust jacket protector publisher's. Spine lightly sunned. Prior owner name stamp to t.p. top magin otherwise a VG - Nr Fine copy. Unpaginated. Text in One 2-panel color image otherwise all images black & white. 11-1/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>"Chang Dai-chien was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua traditionalist painter by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Further Chang is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century. . and it is suggested that many notable collections of Chinese art contains a forgery by the master painter" Wiki. "This book which represents the epitome of Chang Dai-chien's achievements since 1944 contains one hundred and thirty reproductions of his landscapes human figures plants flowers birds animals and fish in both the elaborate and the hsieh yi styles. The pictures are arranged in chronological order to enable the reader to see more clearly how the master after having already attained in his middle age a dizzy height in Chinese art continued on to reach even greater heights." Foreword. While well represented institutionally the work somewhat uncommon in the trade. Published by The East Society, Printed by Sing Cheong Printing Co. Ltd unknown books
