Britton Roswell (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no jacket.

reprint of a 1933 book ed. hardback near very good condition in blue cloth with moderate wear and no dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Blue cloth in glassine wrapper. 151 pp., plus 24 plates. A descriptive and historical survey of the Chinese periodical press in the 1800s, examining indigenous newspaper and gazettes and the introduction of Western journalism and its reception and effects on indigenous papers. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy toning and staining to the glassine, with minor soiling and wrinkling. Glassine scuffed along the extremities. Text block toned, with offsetting to the endpapers and remains of a bookstore label on the last endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Languae: English. The pages of this copy have a few scattered pencil marks and a prior owner's name penned at the title page, otherwise clean; binding square and tight. The blue cloth hard cover is faded at the spine, has an upward lift at the top front corner, and bears a wrinkle in the cloth at the top of the rear joint but is otherwise clean and sound. 151pp. w/index + 24 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 192 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Reprint edition. Some discoloration of 1st & last blank pages, owner's name (William A. Lyell) on 1st blank page, minor underlining on pages 1, 2, 4 & 8 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 151 pp + plates Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy order.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Mimeograph copy for classroom use at U. of Washington, in fastener binder. Copied from out of print text from Princeton University, 1940. "This book contains fifty inscriptions from the Shang dynasty, an ancient Chinese civilization. These inscriptions provide valuable insights into the culture, history, and divination practices of that era." Rare.

Black and white plates, vi + 151pp + 24pp, bibliography, indices, closed tears now repaired title and half title pages, endpapers browned, a good copy. "This is a sketch of the Chinese press during the time when the modern journalism began and the indigenous periodical press expired." (Preface).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4 preliminary leaves, 132 plates, 1 leaf : 30 cm. Printed on double leaves folded in Chinese style. Title and preface also in Chinese. Contains some of the "sketch-plates" from the author's unpublished work Bone inscriptions. cf. Pref "Distribution of the collection: Royal Scottish museum, Edinburgh, Scotland . 760 pieces . Acquired from Couling in 1909. Carnegie museum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. . 438 pieces . Acquired from Chalfant in 1909. British museum, London . 485 pieces . Acquired from Couling 1911. Field museum of natural history, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. . 4 pieces . Acquired from Chalfant in 1913"--4th prelim. leaf.

Taipei 1966, ch'eng-Wen. Blue cloth, excellent in clear dust jacket, 187p., bibliography, 24 b.w. plates, like NEW UNUSED copy, exact reprint of Shanghai 1933 edition, 15 x 21 cm. OBSCURE ITEM . *** **** *** . . . LONG OUT-OF-PRINT, SELDOM FOUND IN ANY EDITION . . * This work covers the indigenous newspapers and gazettes,with an introduction of Western journalism, Chinese reactions to the alien press. Want T'ao and the Hong Kong Newspapers, al- ien periodicals in the Treaty ports, the Shun Pao & other Shanghai Papers, general newspaper developments, Liang Ch'i- Ch'ao and the reform press. Authority and the New Press. The Revolutionary Press, the new and the old. With a very useful index of periodicals, and persons related. Quite RARE work. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is an excellent example, like NEW, UNUSED, contents very clean, with original clear dust jacket as issued. . *.