Waley Arthur Introduction (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

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.

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

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+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket, from a private home collection. 1st printing with full number line (1st edition). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good+. Unclipped DJ has light rubbing, faint sunning to spine. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. First Edition Thus; Third Printing. Xxii + [870] pp. Cover shows wear. Binding is tight & square. Pages are white, notation free, as new. Introduction is by Arthur Waley.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 892 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Very good hardcover, without dust jacket (possibly issued without), from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight and sturdy, but slightly cocked; small area of previous sale sticker residue to front blue cloth board, else very good; silver titling remains bright and bold. Interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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

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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover in slip case. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Slip case is torn, with bottom edge lacking. Some foxing. Pages unmarked. From the private library of Anton Vishio Sr., scholar and mentor, who for 45 years taught Latin and Classical Greek at The Gilman School in Baltimore. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The Real Tripitaka And Other Pieces Arthur Waley introduction - 1952 HCDJ 1st edition published by Macmillan The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India and after his return to China. In addition the book contains an account of a Japanese pilgrim's visit to China in the ninth century, which describes the Wu-t'ai Shan, China's great place of Pilgrimage, and an eye-witness's account of the great persecution of Buddhism in 842-845 A.D. "some jacket wear and tear, clean and tight, generally very good" BBDJ.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 863pp. Two volumes in a slipcase. Both books are nearly like new. The only marking is a previous owner's name and date ("6-11-40") on the first blank page of both volumes. The top page edges are colored red, and the open edges are not trimmed. There is no browning of the pages or spotting or any other deterioration. The original glassine dust jackets are present; Volume 1's wrapper is nearly perfect, but Volume 2's wrapper is missing a section at the top front (see pictures). The slipcase has a 1.5" split at the top front open corner; the other corners show tiny amounts of rubbing wear; and the rear open edge has two tiny barely-noticeable dents. This item is heavy and large and may require additional postage outside the U.S. 2 vol. (65528).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bound in pale tan cloth with black printing on spines. Some light grubbiness and foxing to boards, especially along edges of boards and in the gutters of the joints. Internally endpapers sound and text clean. A novel of 16th century China. Volume 1: xxii + 427 pages; Volume 2: vi + 428-863 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint, Bodley Head 1942. Thick Royal 8vo. 852pp. Internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind. Bound in green lettered and illustrated beige wide weave linen cloth, gently bumped to lower corner, housed and protected in original green dustwrapper chipped to edges and with short tear to lower corner. Translated as The Golden Lotus, this is a Chinese novel of manners from the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, and 100 chapters long. 'The explicit depiction of sexuality garnered the novel a notoriety akin to Lady Chatterley's Lover and Lolita in the West, but critics such as the translator David Tod Roy see a firm moral structure which exacts retribution for the sexual libertinism of the central characters.' Authorship is unknown, but British orientalist Arthur Waley, who wrote the Introduction here, suggested that the strongest candidate as author was Xu Wei, a renowned painter and member of the "realistic" Gong'an school of letters. This Edition, with Chinese characters in green to upper, is increasingly uncommon.

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st UK Edition Thus, Bodley Head 1939. Thick Royal 8vo. 852pp. Internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, offset browning limited to endpapers not intruding. Bound in green lettered and illustrated dusted beige wide weave linen cloth, gently rolled to corners and with light surface loss with fraying 1 long to spine. Translated as The Golden Lotus, this is a Chinese novel of manners from the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, and 100 chapters long. The explicit depiction of sexuality garnered the novel a notoriety akin to Lady Chatterleys Lover and Lolita in the West, but critics such as the translator David Tod Roy see a firm moral structure which exacts retribution for the sexual libertinism of the central characters. Authorship is unknown, but British orientalist Arthur Waley, who wrote the Introduction here, suggested that the strongest candidate as author was Xu Wei, a renowned painter and member of the realistic Gongan school of letters. This Edition, with Chinese characters in green to upper, is increasingly uncommon.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Previous owner's name on front endpaper; light rubbing to board corners; else a clean, solid hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($2.75) and presents well under fresh archival mylar despite several small chips along the panel edges and corner folds. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in attractive jacket. 306pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition NAP. G. P. Putnam 1940 First Edition NAP Good/ Volume One ONLY. Waley, Arthur (introduction). Light wear to light to moderately soled cloth. NO DUST JACKET. Lightly tanned spine with black and gold text block and lettering. Solid structure. 427 pages.

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. Illustrated by Harley, Mary Jane (illustrator). 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.

First edition. Part of The Broadway Travellers Series. 8vo., original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Spine very slightly sunned, A little occasional spotting, small booklabel, otherwise a very good copy.