Alan Priest Foreword (4 results)

PB. Condition: good, wraps (softcover). 36pp Reprinted from the "Gazette Des Beaux-Arts" September 1943 and February 1945 issues. These two articles written by Miss Lindsay Hughes constitute an important landmark in the study of Chinese textiles. Here for the first time is presented a body of material which can be dated with some accuracy. The prince was buried in 1738, and the mass of material cannot be later than that date.". B&W illustrations (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Poor. single page cut out, covers have heavy wear and creasing with a few short edge tears, ink writing on front, corners bumped, stapled binding tight, pencil underlining on one pages, 36 pages + 9 bw plates + one missing plate, one of 3000 catalogs of an exhibit of Chinese robes from the court Size: 8 x 11.25.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "Catalogue of an Exhibition of Imperial Robes and Textiles of the Chinese Court." First edition. 11" x 8". 3 page foreword by Allan Priest; 2 page introduction by Marjorie W. Sirich. Listing with brief text of 184 items. Frontispiece and 20 b/w illustrations. Original stiff yellow wrappers stamped in red and black. Very good. 32 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Cover design by Edmund M. Kopietz.…

Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated [pp. 24]. 8vo., measuring 10" x 7.5". Illustrated stapled card covers featuring an image of "Tiger" by Kao Wêng to the front cover. Copyright page states: "All the paintings in the Exhibition are Lent by Miss Chang." Provides for a brief introductory message by Alan Priest (Curator of Far Eastern Art), an introductory note by Hu Shih (Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Dean of the College of Letters of the National University of Peking, and formerly Chinese Ambassador to the United States) followed by a written reproduction of a lecture given by Kao Wêng at Linagan University. Also includes a concise biography of Wêng by various contributors. Replete with black and white photographs, facsimiles of the paintings comprising the exhibition. Lightest edgewear, scattered foxing confined to the margins of the title page otherwise the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Scarce.…