Christopher Levenson Herbert Franke (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 46 stories originally written in Chinese, then translated to German, then English. .feats of knights and heroes, love vs duty, unusual or erotic situations, miraculous and ghostly events, Chinese life and thought from the Han dynasties, to the Ming dynasty, to more modern periods. See images for contents. Wraps are worn, creased; interior pages are intact without writing or tears but there is a faint dampstain along outer textblock which extends onto some interior pages but well away from text. 393+ pages, 7 1/4" x 4 1/2".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 391pp. First edition. Translated by Christopher Levenson from Bauer's and Franke's German version of the original Chinese. Bound in full brown cloth with green topstain. VG/VG-. Very minor bowing to the boards, some faint splash marks to fore-edge of textblock. Unclipped "$7.50" jacket bears shallow chips at crown of spine and front panel, which also has a 1/4" closed tear. Light soiling and browning to rear panel and flaps.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. (SOLD) (illustrator). First Edition. Gift quality copy, textblock is bright and tight, black end papers. Teal top page edges. Shelf bumped head and foot of spine. 391pp., including list of sources and index. This edition from Wolfgang Bauer's and Herbert Franke's German version of the original Chinese. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Edited by Wolfgang Bauer and Herbert Franke. Translated by Christopher Levenson. Introduction by Herbert Franke. Octavo. 391pp. Binding a trifle cocked, about fine in price-clipped, very good dust jacket with general wear and soil, the spine and rear panel a bit tanned, and a tiny hole in the cover panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Edited by Wolfgang Bauer and Herbert Franke. A tear on the rear board else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and edgewear.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, hardback with D/W. 391 pp with b/w illustrations. 46 novellas ranging over two millennia. Dustwrapper Good with minor chipping to folds, price clipped. One small tear fixed by taping by previous owner. Overall VG/G. (Shelf 200) ISBN: none.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). An English translation of these Chinese novellas spanning two millennia, in an unclipped dust wrapper. This work contains forty-six novellas spanning some two millennia, arranged chronologically.Edited and translated into German by Wolfgang Bauer and Herbert Franke, before being translated into English by Christopher Levenson.With an illustrated title page, as well as a few half page illustrations.An important collection of Chinese literature. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a little bump to the tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is slightly worn to the edges, with the occasional mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.