Whitfield Grayling (9 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1762943434. 11/12/2025 10:30:34 AM.

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paperback. Condition: Good. Ex owner markings on prelim pages.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Textblock very clean and tight; Covers lightly edge and corner worn and rubbed; Light surface soiling, front and back. 289p., including index. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780719553530.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 51 pp staple bound in card covers, covers a little marked and spotted , pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 289pp, chronology, notes, index, very good paperback copy. "If China had not been there, wrote Lord Dunsany, this land of dragons, peachtrees, peonies and plum blossoms, with its ages and ages of culture, slowly storing its dreams in green jade, is just the land that poets would have invented. China has indeed been invented many times, in the astonishment of visitors and the dreams of poets; but because of its historical and geographical vastness it accommodates all the inventions as truths. For centuries the elite of China's civil service was a class of scholar-gentlemen who gained preferment through education in China's literary classics. In consequence it has one of the world's richest literatures. Its dramatic landscapes and populous cosmopolitan cities invited the wonderment of visitors as various as Marco Polo, Lord Macartney and Noel Coward; but some of the sharpest as well as the most lyrical observations come from the calligraphy brushes of its own writers. In this book a gallimaufry of missionaries, travellers, exiles, literary tourists and bibulous native poets offers a variety of perspectives on what the eighth-century poet-painter Wang Wei called the magical land. We see rickshaw coolies fighting over Harold Acton, William Empsom absentmindedly fleeing an invading army, the drunken poet Li Bo fishing for the moon in a pond, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden at an ambassador's garden party trying to ignore the most undiplomatic sounds of approaching gunfire, Mao Zedong up a tree threatening suicide, and Bo Ya smashing his legendary zither because his only discriminating listener has died." (Publisher's description.).