Alan Ayling Duncan Mackintosh (61 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Poetry. This book is in fine condition. The edges show some wear. The cover in worn and is torn on the bottom edge. This is a collection of Chinese lyrics mainly from Sung Dynasty poets who made this verse-form lastingly popular with the Chinese. The traditional theme is nostalgia and separation. These are early thirteenth century pieces. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, fading, small repair and creasing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Trade Paperback. Good to Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy except for address labels on front endpaper and title page, with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers, slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

xxii, 272p. hardcover, very good in edgeworn dustjacket. A collection of poems going back to the Tang dynasty, with original text and translation.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hsuan, Ch'eng; Wu, Fei Ch'eng (illustrator). 94pp. Softcover, VG, index, b&w illustrations, calligraphy, Includes: The opening fold, The screen unfolds, The latest fold, Collection of Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-tung,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very good condition + hard cover. Square spine, sharp corners, and is internally clean and NOT marked. The dust jacket, now enclosed in a removable mylar sleeve is price clipped at lower inside flap, but is otherwise complete. Very minor fading at spine of dust jacket. 254 pages. Translated from the Chinese by Duncan Mackintosh; Foreword by F. T. Cheng; Calligraphy by Lee Yim and on the illustrations by Chang Chien Ying; Illustrations by Fei Ch'eng Wu. SHIPS from Eugene, Oregon, USA. INTERNATIONAL orders will pay actual postage, not quoted postage. Loc: Asian poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Fei Ch'eng Wu (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 254 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Edges slightly dust-stained; bookplate to front pastedown. Dustwrapper has some general minor shelfwear; also price-clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good Minus. 94pp. The original chinese text with English translation. Pictorial card covers with a tear of 3 cm to the rear card cover from the tail of the spine. Slight soiling and light shelf wear to the card covers. Internally clean and fresh. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Judy Ling Wong (illustrator). 1st Edition. Collection of fifteen Peking Nursery Rhymes translated by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Illustrations by Judy Ling Wong. Printed at The Whittington Press on cream paper with black lettering and orange drawings and decorations. Thread bound within orange outer covers. Sun fading to edges of covers which overhang the 24pp booklet inside. Shelf wear and a few tiny chips to top and lower cover edges. Small creases to top and tail of spine and also to corners of covers. Inside pages in fine condition. Now protected in an archival envelope.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fei Ch'eng-wu (illustrator). 1st Edition. Undamaged scarlet boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt. Unclipped peach coloured jacket lettered in black and white has a 5 mm chip to rear top edge and a few marks, especially to rear white panel. Internally trace of old pencil price to ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Folding Screen, A. Book.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Printing has some mild general wear, along with occasional underlining or marginalia. The previous owner's name is inscribed on the first page in upper-left corner, along with the year (1966). Original dust jacket is present, though in poor condition. It is torn and worn; colors are faded; and there is staining.

Copy number '125' of an edition limited to 200 copies signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Printed by John & Rosalind Randle at Whittington Court on Columbian Press no. 1275, made in 1848. The type is 12 pt Caslon and the paper is English Hand Made from St Cuthbert's Mill, Wookey Hole. Bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd in cloth supplied by Warner and Sons, endpapers specially marbled by The Compton Press, top edge gilt, printed paper label to spine. Quarto, 295 x 200, pp. [viii] 96, with calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsüan and seven illustrations by Fei Ch'eng Wu, including the frontispiece. A book in Near Fine condition, housed in an original Very Good blue paper covered board slipcase. Butcher, 9.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. vii, 94 plus colophon. Number 191 of a limited edition of 200 copies handset in Caslon printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper and signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh on the colophon. Top edges gilt, others uncut. 20 x 29.5 cm. Original full Chinese patterned cloth, preserved in original blue board slip case (with a few slight scuff marks). The Whittington Press has, since 1971, been printing books by letterpress, & have been printing books of exquisite quality and casting its own type as one of only a handful of Monotype shops still working, with one of the largest collections of matrices (and that is what makes it unique). WorldCat locates 73 copies in institutional libraries out of a total of 200 copies produced, leaving fewer than 120 odd copies in private hands. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ch'eng Hsuan; Fei Ch'eng Wu (illustrator). First edition. An exceptionally lovely copy of this signed Limited Edition collection of Chinese verses, translated into English and illustrated throughout. Number one-hundred and twenty of two-hundred copies produced, signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Ayling rendered the poems into verso, from Mackintosh's English language translation.Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan.A wonderful collection of Chinese poetry and verse, arranges into sections covering the T'ang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Sung Dynasty, Southern Sung Dynasty, and the Ch'ing Dynasty.Beautifully bound in Chinese patterned cloth, and housed in the original slip case. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper covered slip case. Externally, fine. Slip case in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio, 33.2*21*19.3cm, wt: 9kg. Original translator's manuscripts produced between 1960s and 1970s by Duncan Robert Mackintosh, bound up in 6 folio volumes: 1. Chinese Tz'u Translations [Vol. II]. 2. Drum Story & Nursery Rhymes.3. Translation Notes Vol. III and Others [I. Translation Notes (for Vol. III) "A Folding Screen". II. Translation Notes of Tz'u Unversified by Alan Ayling]. 4. Po Chu I: The Song of a Guitar; The Song of Endless Sorrow. 5. Translations of Chinese Tz'u of Mao Tze-tung for "A Folding Screen" (Printed Privately by The Whittington Press); Made with the Aid of T'ung Ping-Cheng and of Nien Ch'eng [see her letters in back flap] as Handed over to Alan Ayling for Rendering into English Verse. 6. Translations of "A Collection of Chinese Tz'u" Made with the Aid of C. K. Lam and Cheng Hsi as Handed over to Alan Ayling for Rendering into English Verse. The volumes are interleaved with extensive notes on language and line by line translation of the verses, with letters between the translator and his Chinese speaking correspondents bound in. Bookplates of Duncan Robert Mackintosh on front endpapers. Mackintosh was a distinguished translator of Chinese verses, who frequently worked with Ayling to put the English version into its final form. This shows the development and the taking shape of the translations in detail, and could well yield insights for future work on Chinese/English translation, as well as its intrinsic interest as an unusual literary archive. Photos available upon request. Signed by Illustrator(s).