Leys Simon Ryckmans Pierre (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First TMP Ed. January 2006. An 111 page work that includes in this volume the author's essay, Prosper. On the title page there is a library stamp and a date stamp. I find no other indications that this was a library book. In 1629, the ship Batavia was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the western coast of the Australian continent. Interest in this episode was revived in 1963 when a diver found the wreck. This is the story! There is some light browning on the edge of the top and outer pages. Page 6 has a light dogear or fold on the upper outer corner. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. Dj is not price-clipped! Number line in the work reads as follows: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Some light browning where some goo gone was used. All in all, a quite presentable copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed. …

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed and creased, toning inside covers); pp. [vi (last blank)], 106 (last blank). A very good copy.

Condition: New.

. In-8 br. Traduction, texte en français. Citations et textes en chinois. E.O.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977. Hardcover, 261 pp. 1st printing in English. This book was originally published in French in 1971. The Belgian author settled and taught in Australia and was an expert on Chinese art and culture. He grasped early on that the 'Cultural Revolution' of Chairman Mao was neither a revolution nor cultural in nature. Fine condition with evenly age-toned pages. Uncommon. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. TOS006439; Confucius; Leys, Simon[a/k/a Ryckmans, Pierre] (translator) The Analects of Confucius (CHINESE HISTORY, ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. 8vo gray cloth over red cloth bds, VG/vgdj:130pp. Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy and the Author. Napoleon escapes from exile ret urns to France via waterloo battlefield becomes a melon magnate deploying his genius to organize street vendors in Paris in 1821; dies in bed holding hands with a vision of the sun of Austerlitz rising above the sea. A good read if you are a Nappy buff. Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 - 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970.…