Waley Arthur Introduction By (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy of the first one-volume hard cover edition, lacking a dust-jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the hard cover edition in a very good (not price-clipped) dust-jacket. Faint underlining in pencil on approx. two dozen pages, else unmarked ;the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.…

Wraps. Condition: Good+. Second Impression. Bottom corner creased to about the first dozen or so pages, else textblock is clean and tight; Usual shelf soiling to all page edges; Several reading creases down the spine, creased corners, surface scuffed covers, usual edge wear. 861p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B000J1CXW8 Hardback. First edition of single volume of 1940 two-volume original. No dustjacket; bound in red boards with black lettering on spine. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight browning and dustsoiling throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature. …

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Single volume edition. 863pp. Gutter cracked before title, edges lightly rubbed, very good in a very good dustwrapper with tears and chips on spine ends and corners, spine sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Anglais.Sans date,reprint circa 1980.No D.J.166 p.Poids 450 gr.Format 21,5 x 15,5 cm.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First English Edition Scarce title Two previous owners name and addresses to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Small mark to bottom edge. Paper punch hole to top edge of front cover. Browning to spine of cloth. Beige cloth with green lettering. No date. With an Introduction by Arthur Waley. This English translation by Bernard Miall from the abridged version by Franz Kuhn (Insel-Verlag, Leipzig) first published in 1939. The following, pieced together from various sources, is the legend of how the Chin P'ing Mei came to be written: In the middle of the sixteenth century A.D. a humble official named Wang Yu happened to be the owner of a very important picture, the Going Up River by Chang Tse-tuan of the Sung dynasty. it was important not only as a work of art but also as a historical document, for it portrayed the splenours of K' aifent Fu, the Northern Sung capital, previous to its destruction in A.D. 1127 by the Kin Tartars. The picture was voered by a wicked and tyrannical offical named Yen Sung, who made every effort to secure it. For a long time Wang Yu held out; but the wicked Yen Sung having finally become all-powerful in the Government was able to threaten Wang with the complete ruin of himself and his family, and at last Wang saw no alternative but to consent. 852 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Asian Edition. "The first complete history in a Western language of a custom which seems utterly barbarous to the West, but which persisted for a thousand years in China." - dust jacket. "A history of probably the most singular way in which women made themselves attractive to men. Has much of the esoteric-erotic fascination of the convention." - Virginia Kirkus' Service. 352 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. Illustrated endpapers. Contents clean, tight and unmarked in original peach cloth. Moderate foxing to edges. Very heavy wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An uncommon issue of this disturbing but fascinating study.; Dust Jacket; Sm 4to. Illustrated by Harley, Mary Jane (illustrator).…