Arthur Waley Foreword (14 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. clean used copy sunning to pages ,no markings/stains or stickers. fast shipping with tracking number.

Soft Cover. Condition: vg-. Mass market paperback WP-5. 89pp including index; white cover is a bit discolored, soiled; b/w il on front cover. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ is faded, discolored, and worn along the top edge. Bookcover and endpages have some minor foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket, from a private home collection. 1st printing with full number line (1st edition). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good+. Unclipped DJ has light rubbing, faint sunning to spine. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the hard cover edition in a very good (not price-clipped) dust-jacket. Faint underlining in pencil on approx. two dozen pages, else unmarked ;the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Boston/Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1992. A New, Unread copy. This is a facsimile edition of the work originally published in London by John Murray in 1950. First Facsimile Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover,Cloth,Gilt Stamping. New/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Prometheus Books edition. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1992. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. A clean, square, tight copy. Cover has bump to one corner [but NO pages are affected]. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with about 100 photos and line drawings. Introduction by Wolfram Eberhard. The first book in English to fully explore this 1000 year-old Chinese custom, LOTUS LOVERS examines the origins of the practice; efforts by missionaries and others to extinguish it; the peculiar sexual fascination that the tiny foot, and the resultant "Willow Walk" held for many Chinese men; the physiological effects of foot binding; etc. Includes interviews with women whose feet were bound in childhood, and their firsthand accounts of the suffering it caused. Also has translations from Chinese erotic literature extolling the beauty of the "Golden Lotus" -- a poetic metaphor for the tiny bound foot. This is the first Prometheus printing, with complete number row (54321) on the copyright page, but it is actually a reprint of a book originally published in 1966. Contains a Foreword and ten chapters, e.g. Origin and Presence; Emancipation Movements; Lotus Lovers; Wondrousness of the Lotus; Secret Chronicle of the Lotus Interest; Reckless and Cruel Treatment of the Drunken Lotus; The Tiny Foot in Truth and Fiction; Painful History of the Lotus Hooks; Ladies of the Bound-Foot Era; etc. + Two appendices. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black leatherette, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Footbinding for women in China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length.". First Prometheus Books edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 352pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. 352pp, b/w illustrations. Book.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good used hardback copy in slightly shelfworn dustjacket. 210pp, foldout map at rear. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Hardcover; 8vo; 352 pages. Red/pink cloth hardcovers with black titles on spine. Lightly rubbed edges. Bright and clean interior, tightly-bound. In a red and white jacket, illustration on front. Heavily sunned spine. Fairly rubbed. In a mylar jacket. VG+/VG-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition hard cover in good condition, with a clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. General shelf and handling wear, including notable shelfwear to dust jacket; heavy tanning, chipping and wear. Spine head and foot worn away, small open tears present, chips and nicks elsewhere. Some colour loss. Boards are lightly bowed, with spine head and foot worn and chipped, minor split to front hinge at spine point. Pageblock tanned and foxed, this leading into pastedowns and endpapers, with a fold-out map at rear also tanned. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Illustrated by Harley, Mary Jane (illustrator). First Asian Edition. "The first complete history in a Western language of a custom which seems utterly barbarous to the West, but which persisted for a thousand years in China." - dust jacket. "A history of probably the most singular way in which women made themselves attractive to men. Has much of the esoteric-erotic fascination of the convention." - Virginia Kirkus' Service. 352 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. Illustrated endpapers. Contents clean, tight and unmarked in original peach cloth. Moderate foxing to edges. Very heavy wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An uncommon issue of this disturbing but fascinating study.; Dust Jacket; Sm 4to.