Liu Tsun Yan (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1978. Hardcover. Condition: FINE Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. First Edition. Black boards, silver lettering title. The first time in English translation. Assumed previous owners chinese chop stamp on front page. Seller Inventory # 14M023.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Black boards, 181pp w Selected Bibliography, illustrated with black and tan woodcuts. -- The first time in English translation. Wonderful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blue cloth with blue dust jacket, photos available upon request. Book has very mild rubbing to corners of cover and spine, a small inscription to front endpage, mild toning to edgeblock, and very mild annotating and underlining throughout; dust jacket has mild scuffing to cover, mild rubbing to corners of cover, modest rubbing to top edge of spine, mild rubbing to spine, and mild creasing to spine. otherwise book is in good condition with a bright cover, a solid binding, and now mylar laminated. *Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF / NF. 1st Printing of the 1978 Washington 1st Edition thus, translated, with preface and introduction, by Nathan K. Mao and Liu Ts'un-yan. 1st English translation of novel first published 1947. Book is straight, square, tightly and evenly bound, mildly and uniformly age toned (some light age mottling along top edge) and free of markings, blemishes and gutter creasing. Cover is clean and bright, with gently rubbed and bumped front corners, mild rubbing to lower joints, otherwise sharp corners and joints, straight headcap, tail, spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct gilt stamped lettering. Minor rubbing to corners, joints and head the only discernible flaws, Dust Jacket is unclipped and encased in protective mylar. (Please see Seller images.) ISBN 0151191549. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. PLEASE CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING for additional information, details or photos.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Canberra: Australian National University, 1967, Paperback, 8vo., 20pp. Solid staple binding, no tears, light tanning to wraps, bright unmarked text. Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 20pp. Light blue card. Light toning to cover edges, otherwise excellent. Size: 8vo.

Stapled wrapper, 15x21cm, 23pp. Fair condition. General wear, creases, scuff marks, and stains. ISBN: 0708104053. This item is light and may attract less postage.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Corner clipped from front endpaper. Light Scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's red hardcover cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good dust-jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.The corners of the book are slightly knocked.Not Price clipped and this copy has one neat owner's name to the half title page of Douglas Lancashire.(see below) This copy was acquired from the Impressive private collection of Academic Douglas Lancashire,born and educated in China.His family came to England where he served in the R.A.F during the war.He then lectured on the philosophy of religion in Hong Kong and in 1962 he bacame Foundation Professor of Chinese and Head of the Dept of Asian Languages and Literature at Auckland University in New Zealand.He has written many articles and translated many works into English.Scarce title large 4to 372pp with illustrations First Edition 1st Impression.

173pp, appendices, biblio, index. Ex-Hilles Library, Harvard with their label stamped deacquistioned on the front paste down, embossed stamp on title page and usual other library markings. Contents clean and sound. Deals with the work and ideas of this seventeenth century writer, poet and literary critic.

Stockholm 1965. Pp. 137-163. Soft cover. Reprint from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Bullentin No. 37.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and the book has NO previous names or inscriptions present.Interesting and comprehensive work wriiten in both English and Mandarin of the Author's detailed bibliographical notes on some 130 works of Chinese Popular Fiction which had remained undiscovered on shelves at The British Museum and at The Royal Asiatic Society in London.The work was compiled in the summer of 1957.This scarce copy was acquired from the Impressive private collection of Academic Douglas Lancashire,born and educated in China.His family came to England where he served in the R.A.F during the war.He then lectured on the philosophy of religion in Hong Kong and in 1962 he bacame Foundation Professor of Chinese and Head of the Dept of Asian Languages and Literature at Auckland University in New Zealand.He has written many articles and translated many works into English.4to 375pp First Edition 1st Impression.

Large 8vo. x + 416pp. Frontis. Good in gilt lettered blue cloth, very minor rubbing. US$37.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good in Fair dust jacket. Offsetting to end pages with foxing at textblock edges. Green boards show shelf wear around edges. Dust jacket has foxing, wear around edges with chipping and some loss at top of spine, protected in Brodart cover. Previous owner's stamp on ffep, but no markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 512 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Leiden, 1984. Cloth. x,416 p. With frontispiece. New copy.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 32. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1967 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 32.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 36. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1974 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 36.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth 416 pages, no markings, small ink stain on spine.

Black and white illustrations, endpaper maps, 372pp, cover rear, spine and edges discoloured; closed tear bottom right corner front cover, a good hardback copy in dustjacket. Small quarto.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. (16)375pp. Extensive index. Illustrations. Text in English & Chinese. A very clean & sound, unmarked copy. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years.

First edition, 4to, pp.xv, [1], 375, [1]; 30 plates; near fine copy in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in a very good dust jacket. "Detailed bibliographical notes on some 130 works of Chinese popular fiction which had remained undiscovered on shelves . at The British Museum and at The Royal Asiatic Society in London" (jacket blurb).