Robert Wen Fong Rorex (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good beige HB in like slipcase. The story is taken from a fourteenth-century handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Intro, commentary, and translation of poems by robert a. Rorex and Wen Fong. Spine slightly faded, minor shelfwear, small ink scribble edge. Oversize. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A used book with light rubbing to cloth boards. Slipcase has moderate rubbing and shelf wear. Binding square and tight. Photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Slipcase shows shelf wear. Cover and edges shows minor shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. New York, 1974; yellow cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; illustrated slip case with edge and corner wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; not paginated. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations (some colour); 25 x 28 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards & slipcase. Profusely illustrated. *** The text of the poems on the scroll reproduced here is by Liu Shang; the paintings are by an unknown artist. Size: 4to.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First Printing. Book has no writing or marking. Slipcase has light rubs to edges else fine.

tan, red & black oblong decorative (wider than tall with chinese calligraphy) cloth hardbound folio. very large ("coffee table" size book), int'l or priority shipping will cost extra). in slipcase (open ended box). very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. slipcase in fine cond. tiny bit of rubbing at corners, not torn, stained, soiled or beat up. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap). decorative frontis. approximately 81 unnumbered pages. every page illustrated. many full color full page illustrations of the vintage paintings (one large foldout). reproduction of the original chinese manuscript with english translation. notes. & acknowledgments. art history. painting. chinese literature. ancient history. chinese history. hsiung~nu. han dynasty. wen chi's captivity in mongolia and her return to china. folklore. liu shang.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Pub by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, presumed 1st Edition Thus. Near-square format. NOT exLib. As-New cond. hardcover w/ Near As-New pict slipcase. Yellow cloth over bds w/ black & red dec & lettering on cover & spine. Book is complete, intact & unmarked. Illustrated in color & b&w. Very light wear to lower edge of slipcase. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover, in slipcase; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Slipcase shows fading, shelf wear, and slight chipping at the edges. ASIN: B0015772SU.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Near fine in a very good (sun fading) illustrated slipcase. B0015772SU.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear) illustrated slipcase. B0015772SU.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. WITH SLIPCASE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi is a 1974 publication by Robert A. Rorex and Wen Fong, featuring a 14th-century Chinese handscroll housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The scroll illustrates the life of Cai Wenji (also known as Wen Chi), a Han Dynasty poet who was captured by nomadic tribes and later ransomed. The book includes translations of Liu Shang s poems and reproductions of the scroll s paintings, providing insight into Chinese art and culture during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Bound in yellow cloth. Colour and black and white illustrations. Near fine and housed in very good, rubbed slipcase.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good / no dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text and Images. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

First Edition. Fine in Near fine slipcase, light wear to case.

First edition. First printing of this descriptive monograph about the history and content of an important Chinese handscroll acquired by the Met in 1973. 10'' x 10.75''. Original yellow cloth boards with red and black titles. Illustrated in color and black and white, with one fold-out. Unpaginated. Small gift inscription to front pastedown, dated 1974. In original black-and-white pictorial slipcase. Slipcase with light edgewear, a bit of toning. Binding with scattered faint foxing, light toning and rubbing to spine. Interior sharp and bright. Very good plus in very good plus slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 25.5x28cm. First edition. Unpaginated (92pp) with large-scale colour illustrations, one of which folding, and numerous other illustrations. Hardback / hard cover: sand-yellow cloth titled in black & red at backstrip and in black between reproductions of red seals on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. VERY GOOD+ copy in pictorial slipcase in FAIR condition only - holding firmly, but rubbed, heavily grazed, and partly faded.

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Small spots on yellow cloth cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Light wear to slipcase. 10 7/8"w x 10"h. 3.

1 volume unpaged, colored and b/w illus., original gold cloth in the original stiff printed slipcase, oblong quarto format.

First Edition. Hard cover. 4to. Bright artwork throughout. As NEW condition. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in boards; with a Very Good slipcase. Edgewear to slipcase. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Yellow Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Reproduction of a Chinese handscroll of poems and drawings telling the story of the abduction of Lady Wen-Chi to Inner Mongolia and her return to her own people years later, leaving behind her husband and children. Unpageinated. 84 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, one fold-out drawing. Orange endpapers. Top board illustrated with red characters, black lettering. Minimal spotting to top edges, otherwise very good plus copy with no inscriptions. Cased in good slipcase with slight rubbing to corners. Size: 10" Tall x 11" Wide. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Approx 80pp/illus in b&w and color. Spine dull. Wen-chi was abducted from her scholar-statesman father's home (Ts'ai Yung) in present-day Honan, about 195 A.D. She was taken by the Hsiung-nu (basically, the Huns) into Inner Mongolia and was made the wife of the Commander-in-Chief of one of the nomad's wings. Clean.

Condition: Very Good. Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute The Story of Lady Wen-Chi A Fourteenth-century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ROREX, A Robert & FONG, Wen The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, hardback with printed boards and pictorial slipcase, VG/vg, boards yellow/black with red motifs to front board, red end papers, illustrated throughout from stunning photographs of the original hand scroll depicting a series of narative paintings, unpag Boards clean and firm, two small marks to spine strip, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright Slipcase clean and firm, no impact marks, rubs and abrasions to corners Lovely copy ART, CHINESE, PAINTINGS AND POEMS, HANDSCROLL, LADY WEN-CHI, STORY OF ABDUCTION, RETURNING HOME, NARRATIVE PAINTINGS 46808 ART/CHINESE £1650 unpag.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near Fine condition in slipcase. A beautiful copy of this work.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1974 edition. 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. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 92 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. 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. Pages: 92.