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Published by Herbert Jenkins, 1963
Seller: El Pinarillo Books, Morden, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear to book and clipped dustwrapper. Both bright. Very good overall. Book.
Published by London: Herbert Jenkins, 1963
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition. Tall 8vo turq cloth black titles to spine, dj pclipt ow VG/vgdj:xiv+236pp, with 8 coloured plates and 40 black and white illustrations by author. Maps on endpapers;The author is a Chinese artist, resident in France, who provides an illustrated summary of Chinese history with an emphasis on the "sages and saints, philosophers and poets, potters and painters" as well as the more conventional characters of Chinese history. ; eight of his paintings and forty of his black and white drawings illustrate a cavalcade of five thousand years of Chinese history.