Weale Putnam Bertram Lenox Simpson (36 results)

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Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Presumed second printing (no direct statement as such but first published by Dodd, Mead in March 1907). i-vii, [1], 1-447 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Red cloth lightly rubbed and soiled; gilt lettering to spine and front board remains bright; bumping to spine ends and board corners. Deckle fore-edge and bottom edge; some leaves retain uncut fore-edges. Six-line ink inscription dated January 1, 1911 to Waco, Texas attorney Oscar L. Stribling [Oscar Lee Stribling] (1865-1926) from prominent Waco grocer and banker Edward Rotan (1844-1932). A few spots of foxing and minor soiling to interior leaves which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. Bertram Simpson (under his pen name B.L. Putnam Weale) relays events of the 1900 siege of the International Legations in Beijing during the Qing Empire Boxer Rebellion.…

Presumed second printing (no direct statement as such by first published by Dodd, Mead in March 1907). i-vii, [1], 1-447 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Red cloth lightly rubbed and soiled; gilt lettering to spine and front board remains bright; bumping to spine ends and board corners. Deckle fore-edge and bottom edge; some leaves retain uncut fore-edges. Six-line ink inscription dated January 1, 1911 to Waco, Texas attorney Oscar L. Stribling [Oscar Lee Stribling] (1865-1926) from prominent Waco grocer and banker Edward Rotan (1844-1932). A few spots of foxing and minor soiling to interior leaves which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. Bertram Simpson (under his pen name B.L. Putnam Weale) relays events of the 1900 siege of the International Legations in Beijing during the Qing Empire Boxer Rebellion.…

8°, gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen. Condition: Befriedigend. 379 S. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Kopfschnitt angegraut, Papier gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig, sonst gut erhalten. Weinroter Leinenband mit Goldprägung, Exlibris Tulip Hill, Schutzumschlag fehlt. No shipping to other EU countries due to the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which entered into force on August 12, 2026. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. None. First Edition. 401pp; No DJ, gray cloth boards with yellow titling to front & spine, minor staining to boards, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Scarce, vintage novel of China and its customs. Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930), was a British author who was in China during the Boxer Rebellion and during the siege of the legations.…

Hardbound. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Putnam Weale [Simpson's pen name] was a prolific British journalist, novelist and political commentator who resided in China for over three decades. As a political advisor to the China, his works attracted a readership at the highest levels of the Chinese government. The present book comprises five of Weale's papers previously published in a contemporary journal, all of which focus on the troubled history of relations between China and Japan, the then-present situation between the two nations and the high prospects of future conflict - a prediction that later developments proved to be prescient. Ex-lib including usual marks, with sticker on front cover; spine worn, EPs tanned with front EP missing a small piece of top corner, front hinge cracked but still holding well. Internal pages clean and unmarked. [xi], 248 pp., detailed notes in appendix, 2 maps (1 fold-out), index. Size: 21 x 14 cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No DJ.

Hardbound. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Putnam Weale [Simpson's pen name] was a prolific British journalist, novelist and political commentator who resided in China for over three decades. As a political advisor to the China, his works attracted a readership at the highest levels of the Chinese government. The present book comprises five of Weale's papers previously published in a contemporary journal, all of which focus on the troubled history of relations between China and Japan, the then-present situation between the two nations and the high prospects of future conflict - a prediction that later developments proved to be prescient. Ex-lib with usual marks; binding sound; EPs tanned with former owner's name on FFEP. Rear FEP present but pasted down. Interior pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. [xi], 248 pp., 2 maps (1 fold-out), index. Size: 21 x 14 cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First China Edition, published by Kelly and Walsh in Shanghai. The book was originally published in London in 1900. Octavo, pp vii, 447. Bound in brown cloth covered hard boards and with the original dust jacket. Letters written by Bertram Lennox Simpson of his experiences in Peking during the Siege of the Legations, using the pseudonym Bertram Weale. Simpson was a controversial figure among the British colonial service in China, and was eventually assassinated by Chinese political agents in Tientsin in 1930. Peter Fleming wrote, and not in a flattering manner, about Simpson in his 1959 book, "The Siege of Peking", and a previous owner has pasted a photocopy of half a page from Fleming's book to a blank prelim page here and also transcribed Fleming's criticism, in pencil, at the end of the foreword. The book is in Near Fine condition, with light browning to the endpapers. The jacket is chipped to the head of the spine and has some general wear, grades Good.…

Later edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 447, [1]; photo-reproductive frontispiece and one map; red cloth gilt; boards rubbed and cocked, endpapers refreshed, text clean and sound with a couple old dog ear creases, good. Weale was a prolific author on China who was present during the western powers' siege of Peking to retake it from the Boxers. He was deeply critical of the West's actions during the rebellion, and his Indiscreet letters has been identified by later scholars as not a collection of primary documents but an invention by Weale produced after the events to attack "supine British diplomatic leadership" (Bickers, Britain in China).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 552 pp with 33 B&W plates and a large foldout map of Manchuria at end of text. Text is clean and tight, library markings from the Rochester Theological Seminary in text and their bookplate on front pastedown. Deckle-edged pages , gilt on top edge. Red cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are lightly bumped at extremities, library markings on lower spine. The book covers the author's journey thru Manchuria in 1903 and is sub-titled " with an historical sketch entitled Prologue to the Crisis." Gives a complete account of the Manchurian frontiers from the earliest days to the growth and final meeting of the Russian and Chinese Empires in the Amur river region.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xv, 312. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Slight rubbing at spine and faint scuffing to covers, otherwise sound, very good with clean text.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. xx, 564pp., index, photos (all plates present), folding map. Spine faded, bumping, particularly to back corner, some edgewear, but binding sound, many pages uncut. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Folio. unpaginated pp40 plus sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and surroundings from photographs by Donald Mennie, with an introduction by Putnam Weale and descriptive notes by S. Couling. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original dark blue silk binding with gilt titles to spine and front board in protective sleeve in fair/good condition with cracking and loss to top & tail and edges of boards. Inside foxing throughout , borders of plates affected, the tipped in plates themselves in excellent condition. A nice copy of a scarce book. Donald Mennie (illustrator).…

Contemporary private half leather binding with decorative endpapers, title gilt on spine, a very good copy. / With personal manuscript dedication by the author, signing as Putnam Weale, Peking Xmas 1929. Please see description or ask for photos.

Octavo, original decorated blue cloth, front cover stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Eight stories set mostly in the Far East, exploring various cultural conflicts. "He gives us the atmosphere of the Far East, which he knows as few Anglo-Saxons know it, and yet he preserves his detachment of spirit as Loti and Lafcadio Hearn do not. He pictures its strangeness, its insidious charm, and its dangers. The book should not be missed by those who are not afraid of a shudder or two, and who care for stories of artistic vitality." - New York Times, 3 July 1909. Mild foxing to edges of text block, endpapers a bit tanned, a tight, bright, near fine copy. (#114739).…

1st Edition. 404pp + 31 + [3] publisher's catalogues. original paper wrappers chipped with tape repairs on spine, corners bumped. Good copy. At first glance this novel may appear unremarkable, however it is of considerable interest in the 20th century history of Chinese-European relations as it includes (on page 26) what is believed to be the earliest published reference to the infamous sign in Shanghai's Public Garden which purportedly stated "Dogs and Chinese not Admitted". The sign has now been conclusively shown not to have stated this, however references to the racist wording still appear to this day and the reporting of its existence has caused, and continues to cause, a great deal of ill feeling. Reginald Johnston, former tutor to Pu Yi the last emperor of China, wrote in a 1927 pamphlet issued by the Tianjin British Committee of Information that the anti-Chinese wording "it is a kind of slander which takes a lot of killing, and survives even the most authoritative denials". (Shanghai's Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted" Sign: Legend, History and Contemporary Symbol - Robert A. Bickers and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. The China Quarterly No 142. June 1995). Putnam Weale was the name under which Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877- 1930) wrote many books about China. Born in England Bertam Simpson followed his father into the Chinese Maritime Customs Service leaving the service in 1901. He wrote a great deal about China in the years that followed and became deeply involved in Chinese politics. He was murdered in 1930 and it seems quite likely that his murder was of a political nature, though neither motive nor killer was ever found.…

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. Includes maps. Some maps have color. Occasional footnotes. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. Wear at toem and bottom of spine. Bottom of spine stained.

8vo. xii, 310 pp. Frontisp., 1 map. Brick-red pictorial cloth, black lettering & illust. front cover, & spine (minor edgewear, scuffing, some rubbing, occasional interior foxing), still VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep., from the library of David G. Kohl (1946-2025), former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School, musician, artist, and historian. Fifth edition of ostensibly what claims to be an eye-witness account of the Boxer Rebellion while the author was in China during the siege of the legations, and later became Brigade interpreter for the British Expeditionary Force. The semi-notorious author was dismissed from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, perhaps from the looting, and questionable behavior mentioned in his book (including taking over a Manchu home filled with women), Simpson (1877-1930) later worked as a Daily Telegraph correspondent in the Far East, but later was killed after taking control of customs in Tianjin for Yan Xishan. See: Lanxin Xiang, The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study (2003); Jacqueline Young, Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse and Charles Welsh Mason, Victorian Newsletter, Vol. 114, (Fall, 2008).…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); lavender cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark yellow on spine and front cover; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8], 401pp. A few faint streaks along topstain, else Fine, with numerous pages uncut. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly shelfworn, with a few short tears; Near Fine. Novel of life in China and its customs by the British author, formerly a Brigade Interpreter for the British Expeditionary Force who lived in China during the Boxer Rebellion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. China Edition. Spine sun, edgewear, endpapers foxed, light text tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First edition printed in China of this observer's detailing of the siege and sack of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, written by a British national who was born in China and spent his life in various government and media jobs. This copy has a fascinating association. The oldest owner's signature is "Hilda Macdonald" about whom I can find no information. The second signature is that of Howard E Kohn II, best known as the producer of the noir film "Hidden Fear". The final ownership marking is the stamp "Samuel Bronston Productions Ltd." Samuel Bronston produced the 1963 epic "55 Days at Peking" about the Boxer Rebellion siege of the foreign legations at Beijing. This "China Edition" of Indiscreet Letters may have been a reference work used in the movie's writing and filming. This first China edition of a first-person account providing insight into a key 20th-century political moment in China has a fascinating association by being used by the production company of the American movie on that subject. ; vii, 447 pages.…

A nice copy of the First Edition of this scarce novel by the controversial Shanghai born British freelance journalist & commentator on Chinese affairs best known for his memoir of the Boxer Rebellion & Siege of the Peking Legations published as "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" 1907. He was directly involved in the warlord era which led to his assasination in Tientsin in 1930. Crown 8vo.viii.312pps.32pp.publishers catalogue dated September 1911clean and sound but with the usual foxing. No ownership marks.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1910 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: 363 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: 363.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 330.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 330.