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Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1924
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. brown cloth, 1st US ed.(1924), 304 pages. Spine darkened & lettering rubbed, extremities bumped & lightly worn, owners name inside, minor foxing scattered within; text clean / unmarked.
1924. Asia. Houghton Mifflin Co., 304p., good ex-library cloth, two pages with illustrations are detached but present.
Published by Grant Richards., London, 1923., 1923
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
8vo. hardcover. 304pp. b/w plates. Good, some foxing, tear on front pastedown & endpaper.
Published by Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1924, 1924
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book First Edition
Condition: near fine. 1st Edition. 304pp. Octavo. Brown textured cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to ends of spine and corners. B/W illustrations through out including frontis. Clean tight text block save for some soiling to top and bottom outer edges of text block. Long outer edge of text block untrimmed. A nice copy. near fine A beautiful exploration of the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia complete with many beautiful photographs and illustrations.
Published by Grant Richards., London, 1923
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 304pp, 65 illustrations from drawings/photographs by the author. Usual treatments, rubbed and worn, spotting, all plates present, good reading only. 950g.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston & New York, 1924
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Brown topstains. Black and white plates throughout [all present]. Spine slightly darkened. Light shelfwear to outer corners and head and heel of spine panel. One signature just starting; binding remains sound.
London 1924, Richards. Red cloth, very good, 304p., map, plan, 65 drawings by the author and from photographs. A pop- ular description of Angkor Wat, artistic aspects of the very famous stone sculptures & carvings. S C A R C E The author's primary notes of observation of the famous tem- ples. On the way to Angkor, expectations, the province of Siem-Reap, the great lake, the modern Cambodians living in siem-reap town. The legend of Kambu Svayambhuva, founder of Cambodia, sketch of Khmer history from the first to the 12th century A.D. Angkor-Thom: the moat, gates, walls of the town & the five giants of the Balustrade. Ruined cap[ital, the forest. Bayon its mystery of the fane Brahmanism, legend of Genii, builders of Angkor, plan & significance of the temple its myth of Brahma Chaturmukha. The bas-reliefs of the Bayon & their merits, artistic & ethnographical, the ancient Chams possible interpretation of the carvings. Significance of the towers of Four-Faces. The Baphuon, an example of religous iconoclasm. The great square of Angkor-Thom, the elephants' terrace, imperial palace, symbols and dreams. Memoirs of Tcheou-Ta-Kouan. The towers of the rope dancers. Other monu- ments in Angkor-Thom, the ambassadors' palace, the Leprous King's statue, Great Buddha of Tep-Pranam, Prah Palilay. Out side Angkor-Thom, old Khmer bridge, sanctuaries of Prasat Bat Chum and Prasat Kravanh. Long elephant ride to Bakong & Loleik. Phnom Bakeng extensive panorama, Khmer stone decora- tion, the Devatas, religon & evolution &c.