FS: Books on China art, culture, related
Rik
The following items are all available for immediate sale. Will sell
separately at prices listed for each item, or as a lot.
LOT PRICE for all items, includes shipping to anywhere in the US (outside
US is higher): $200.00.
See terms below.
Various Artists. MING DYNASTY PAINTINGS OF BIRDS AND FLOWERS. Two sets of
twenty cards, each featuring a different painting. Cards are 5.25" X 7.5"
and come with a "key card" that lists the painting subject and artist.
Each set of twenty is unbound, encased in stiff wraps and suitable for
framing. Condition of both sets is Very Fine. Key cards are printed in
English, but all other identifying information (like date, publisher,
etc.) is in Chinese, and unreadable to me.
Price: $10.00 US for both sets (all forty cards).
Inge Morath, Arthur Miller. CHINESE ENCOUNTERS. Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
New York. 1979 First Printing. Near fine in near fine. 256 pages. DJ has
light soiling and one small tear and is slightly "off center" for the
book. (Flaps are folded a tad wrong.) Pages are clean and bright and
contain many black and white photographs. Interesting description of the
travels of a photographer and theatre artist as they travel through China
in the late 1970s and discuss freedom of expression, liberty, etc. with
artists, theatre folks, and others in the country. Talk of liberation was
frightening at that time. Price: $15.00 US
National Geographic Society. JOURNEY INTO CHINA. Fifth edition. Grand book
with more than 400 photographs, a' la National Geographic. Near fine
hardcover with decorated front cover (golden dragon on red cloth) in a
very good DJ that has some signs of wear and very small chips at flap
folds. Comprehensive view of China in a 9.5" X 11" thick (and heavy!)
book. Price: $16.00 US
Pat Fok. QUIET BEAUTY OF CHINA. Rizzoli New York, 1987 (presumed first
edition). Beautiful book created by this Chinese photographer born in Hong
Kong, educated in Switzerland and England. Her work has been exhibited in
London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Australia. This is an album of colorful
impressions, a distilled vision of China that expresses deep attachment to
her ancestral land. It is the stunning result of ten years of travels.
Fine in Fine.
Price: $25.00 US
edited by Brian Brown. THE WISDOM OF THE ORIENT. Principles of Living that
for Centuries have Guided Man to a Greater Enjoyment of Life. Two volumes
in one book: The Wisdom of the Chinese and The Wisdom of the Hindus. 293
pages. Hardcover in good condition with yellowing pages in a good dust
jacket that shows age and has some missing pieces and a few closed tears.
Binding is tight. 1941, Garden City Publishing. I couldn't find this book
on ABE or Bibliofind.
Price: $10.00 US
John King Fairbank. THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA, fourth edition, enlarged.
Harvard University Press, 1983. Paperback in good condition. Slightly
creased spine and several small creases to front cover. Pages are clean
and bright (all 632 of them!) Price: $5.00 US.
Nien Cheng. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. Grove Press, 1986, Book Club
Edition. Very good with bumped corners in very good DJ. Binding tight,
pages clean and bright. In August 1966, at the beginning of the upheaval
known as the Cultural Revolution, a group of fanatical young Red Guards
invaded and ransacked the comfortable, elegant Shanghai home of the
fifty-one-year-old widow of a former Kuomintang diplomat. A few weeks
later, Nien Cheng was arrested and taken to the number one Detention
house, where she would remain imprisoned in solitary confinement, for
nearly seven years. Life and Death in Shanghai is her own powerful and
inspiring account of those harrowing years and their aftermath.
Price: $6.00 US.
editor Mao Dun, CHINESE LITERATURE, March 1980. A monthly periodical of
Chinese Literature, published in English in Beijing, China. 120 pages,
includes Chinese artwork, both black and white and color plates in
addition to a variety of stories, and notes on Chinese literature and art.
Laid in is an unusual letter from The China Letter, which includes a "Hell
Bank Note" currency for the underworld. The letter explains that the Hell
Bank Note is widely used in traditional Chinese religious practices, as
the currency of the dead for use in the nether world. According to
traditional beliefs, Hell, the other world, or the underworld, is merely a
carbon copy of this world, where everygone goes when they die. (Not to be
confused with the Western concept of Hell). Therefore, money is important
there. etc. Interesting piece, in near mint condition, worth the total
price for the issue alone! Incidentally, the periodical is in near fine
condition, in stiff wraps with a slight corner bump on lower corner of
front cover. Pages are clean and bright.
Price: $10.00 US.
Barbara W. Tuchman. STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA,
1911-45. Bantam Books, paperback. Good condition, creased spine, creased
covers. 794 pages. Includes black and white photographs.With October 8,
1987 New York Times editiorial laid in, entitled "Stand Up For Decency in
Tibet. " Binding is tight, pages all bound in.
Price: $4.00 US.
Yim Lai Kuen, editor. THE GREAT WALL, China National Publications Import &
Export Corporation, First Edition, 1986. Spiral Bound travel book of the
Great Wall and other interesting sites in China. In near mint condition,
printed on stiff glossy paper, printed in both English and Chinese. About
62 unnumbered pages, each with color photographs of various sites
surrounding the Great Wall. Includes a map showing the situation of the
Great Wall within China. Great picture book.
Price: $5.00 US
Gladys Yang and others, translators. ANCIENT CHINESE FABLES. Foreign
Language Press, Beijing, 1983, second printing. 86 pages in stiff wraps in
near fine condition. Uncreased spine and covers, slight soiling to rear
cover. Pages illustrated by Feng Zikai, and clean and crisp. Interesting
tales from Ancient Chinese history.
Price: $5.00 US
Robert van Gulik. THE EMPEROR'S PEARL, A Chinese Detective Story. Charles
Scribner's Sons, c. 1963. I believe it's a first edition: rear of title
page contains "A-6.64[MH]". According to McBride's the A and number
indicates first edition, date of publishing and location. Book is in near
fine condition with illustrated end papers. DJ is sunfaded along spine and
about 1" of top front cover. Some tiny closed tears at flap folds,
otherwise very good++ DJ.
Price: $50.00 US
Mai-mai Sze, THE WAY OF CHINESE PAINTING; ITS IDEAS AND TEHNIQUE with
selections from the Seventeenth Century Mustard Seed Garden Manual of
Painting. Vintage Paperback in very good condition.Uncreased spine, rear
cover has some creasing and slight foxing. Pages 425-430 have a
length-wise wrinkle, other pages are fine. 459 pages total. Based on The
Tao of Painting. The author defines the essence of Chinese painting as a
form of art as well as a way of life, and inher translationof the classic
Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, demonstrates the technique as well
as the spirit of Chinese painting.
Price: $5.00 US.
Jonathan D. Spence. EMPEROR OF CHINA, SELF-PORTRAIT OF K'ANG-HSI. Alfred
A. Knopf, third printing, 1974. Very good in very good price-clipped DJ.
Deep red cover has some minor spotting on it, and some small fraying at
lower front corner. Front end page has inked inscription. Pages are fine
and contain several illustrations throughout. 218 pages, plus index.
Includes a bibliography. Using many passages of K'ang Hsi's own words, the
author creates a vivid portrait of this great ruler. Interesting
reconstruction of history from source materials.
Price: $10.00 US.
MASTERWORKS OF CHINESE JADE IN THE NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM. Published by
the National Palace Museum in 1969, Taipei, China. Beautiful red cloth
cover with gold imprint, covered in a plastic protector and slipcased. 92
pages featuring color plates of absolute masterpieces of Jade held in the
museum's collection, with commentary on each piece in both Chinese and
English. Fine book in Very Good Slipcase which shows some signs of wear.
Price: $25.00 US
Lin Yutang, PEKIN, CITE IMPERIALE, Sept Siecles d'Histoire. Elik Books
Limited, 1961, London. First edition. Printed in French. Gray decorated
cloth over boards in very good++ condition, with previous owner's name
discreetly written in ink on front paste down. Dust Jacket has two small
pieces missing at top (one near spine and one on rear) and has tape across
the top, placed, apparently, to prevent further tears. Despite some slight
wear/rubbing, the DJ is in otherwise very good condition. This book has
119 illustrations with 52 in color. It details seven centuries of art in
Peking. It's a very impressive book, which I was unable to find on ABE,
Interloc, or Bibliofind.
Price: $20.00.
Alumni Association of University of Michigan, CHINA'S CULTURAL TRIANGLE,
1993. Complete tourist's guide to China for a specific tour sponsored by
the University of Michigan in 1993. Includes many helpful hints, shopping,
customs, etc. Three ring binder loaded with pages. Interesting item.
Price $7.00 US.
Fox Butterfield. CHINA, ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA. Bantam Trade Paperback,
May 1983. Very good ++ with uncreased spine and crease along top corner of
rear cover. Covers have light rubbing, signs of wear. Pages are near fine.
This book is acclaimed to be the most vivid portrayl of China and its
people presented to the Western world by a Pulitzer Prizewinning
journalist, and the first New York Times correspondent permitted to live
in Peking since the 1949 revolution.
Price $5.00 US.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, THE MANCHU DRAGON, COSTUMES OF THE CHI'ING
DYNASTY, 1644-1912. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. Exhibition
catalogue, 36 pages in wraps, featuring brightly colored illustrations
throughout. Covers show signs of wear and are creasted near top, as well
as some of the pages. Brilliant colorful designs of costumes and
commentary throughout.
Price: $7.50 US
Ezekiel Schloss, MING-CH'I, Clay Figures Reflecting Life in Ancient China.
The Katonah Gallery, New York, 1975. Exhibition gallery of clay figures.
Cover is wraps. Covers are slightly foxed, rear cover has some light
creasing. Unnumbered pages, contains 100 black and white photographs, each
with commentary on item. Size: 8.5" X 11". Overall condition is very good.
This exhibition brought together many pieces from private collections, as
well as various museum collections.
Price: $15.00 US
Wang Jiaxi and Ma Yue, CHINA'S RARE FLOWERS, Morning Glory Press, Beijing,
1986, First Edition. 80 pages. Cover is stiff wraps, illustrated. Front
cover has light foxing spots. Each odd number page is a color plate of
various Chinese rare flowers. Facing page provides information, in English
about the flower, and displays a color photograph of the flower as well.
Very nice presentation. Overall condition is Very Good.
Price: $10.00 US
TERMS: Lot price for all items is $200.00, postpaid anywhere in the US.
(Outside US shipping will be added on.)
Separate items available at prices shown plus $4.00 for first item and
$1.00 for each addition for shipping anywhere in the US (Outside US
shipping is higher. Email with exact address.)
To reserve email: R...@poboxes.com Reserves held for ten days, FIRM.
Payment is via check or money order.
Returns of items in same condition as sent accepted within ten days.
Thank you for your interest.
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