Taipei: Office of Military History, 1970. Octavo; 381 pp. Maps at back, some folding. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Photostatic copy of the text published in Moscow in 1964. Boards are square with light edgewear, along with some small spots of staining along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series LXXXIX, 1977. Octavo (23.5x15.5x2.5cm); xxxviii + 580pp, including general index and indexes for Greek, Sanskrit and Pali terminology. Twenty-three B&W images. Coated card covers with photograph on front. Near Fine. One small lacuna to coating on rear surface; spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock clearly..... More
![Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China [Signed]. Bao, Sansan,...](/pictures/thumb/5904.jpg?v=1578421773)
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 213 pages. Signed by Bette Lord on half title with inscription, "To Bob and Janice / Curry, / I shall always / remember you for / making my happiest / day into a perfect / one. / Affectionately, / Bette..... More
Taipei: Cathay Art Museum, 1979. First Edition (both volumes). Folio (each 39x27x2.5cm); leaves of heavy daolin paper; specifics below for textblocks and illustrations. In both Chinese and English. Chinese text is vertical throughout, reading top to bottom and right to left. Both volumes are bound bi-directionally. For Western readers..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1968. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo. 253 pages. Black and white photographs. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket over green boards with black lettering. Jacket is worn along edges with a couple small nicks and some general..... More
Paris and Brussels: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire / G. Van Oest, Éditeurs, 1914. First Edition. Quarto (35x27x4cm); 98pp + 47 tipped-in plates printed obverse only, with all tissue guards in place; all guards have imprinted captions; reproductions in sepia, with the exception of the full-color frontispiece. Almost wholly in..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; 173pp. Clear vinyl dust jacket with green printed inner flaps. Book in half green and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few smudges, along with some chipping to color at top of inner flap, but no..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper with rice paper..... More
London: Duckworth, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 176 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure and light general scuffing. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Pages unmarked. Includes selections from Pien Chih-Lin, Lin Keng..... More
Hong Kong: Hua Hsia Publications, 1972. First Thus. Updated homage re-issue of initial 1966 edition. Folio (39x28cm); 523pp. Over 2000 photographs (conservatively estimated) in color and B&W. Six panoramas on three fold-outs that extend to over 1.25m in length, with landscape, monument, and architectural vistas. All text bilingually presented in..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Art History Research Society, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's tan decorative paper-covered boards; [2],390pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Corners gently tapped, else Near Fine condition. More
New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010. First Edition (published simultaneously in soft- and hardcover). Quarto (30.5x23x2cm); xviii + 342pp, including lenders list, chronology, bibliography, and index. Five pp. of maps; 355 photographs in color and B&W with 10 additional full-page full-color frontispieces..... More
Taipei, TW: Chang Foundation, 1990. First Edition. Quarto. 190 pages. Color photographs throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Red boards stamped in gilt. Red cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. Faint shelfwear along bottom edge of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is gently worn along edges..... More
Washington, D.C. and Cambridge: Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Harvard University Press, 1990. Folio. --Vol IIA: 36x29x2cm; 208pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index; 180 numbered figures; many additional documentary images and maps; honey-brown leatherette with gilt spine stamping. --Vol IIB: 36x29x4cm; (continuous pagination from Vol IIA) pp 209-776;..... More
Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); xii + 153pp, including artist biographies, orthographical and phonological appendices, and bibliography. The 281 catalogued items are accompanied by approximately the same number of photographs, most in color. Illustrated card wraps. Some slight signs of age to..... More
![Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China [Signed]. Jonathan Hay](/pictures/thumb/8839.jpg?v=1614807314)
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. Signed by Hay without inscription on title page. Quarto. 412 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with a few surface scratches and rubbing to..... More
Washington, D.C. and Boulder: Freer Gallery of Art and Weatherhill, Inc. (Shambhala), 2003. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x2cm); xx + 203pp, including maps, seals, chronology, and bilingual glossary, bibliography, concordance, with index. Exhibition catalog with multiple images of 33 exhibited items throughout, many additional images in color and B&W. Principally in..... More
London: A & J Speelman, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (32x25.5x2cm); 123pp. Full-page and close-detail full-color photographs of 55 precious objects, or sets of objects, as part of an A&J Speelman celebratory exhibition. Two gatefold spreads: one of lacquer tables; the other of eight erotic plaques in ivory. Photographic dust..... More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x5cm); lii, including intro., chronology, and bibliography + 605pp, including 10pp of artists' signature seals and index. Thirty-seven reproductions on 31 plates; three in color; all present. Plates are printed on solid tissue stock, itself tipped onto leaves of laid..... More
![Text in Chinese] Yixing Zisha / Yixing Purple Clay Ware. Liang Baiquan](/pictures/thumb/8849.jpg?v=1614714841)
Beijing: China Cultural Relics Coordination Centre, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto; publisher's leatherette in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in gilt; 382pp.; color photographs throughout, publisher's cancel mounted to colophon. Extremities a bit rubbed and wrinkled from handling, corners gently bumped, a few faint surface scratches, old price sticker..... More
Taipei: Taiwan Commercial Press Co., Ltd., 1992. First Edition. Folio (outer case shell: 38.5x29x8cm; inner case shell: 37.5x27x6.5cm; volumes: 36x27cm); Vol I x + 281pp, Vol II v + pp282-528. Catalog of 152 items, depicted in 500 color and 200+ B&W photographs; 1 extensive fold-out in each volume. Entirely in..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],265pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good or better overall. The collected A.W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts for 1998, issued as the Bollingen Series Vol. XXXV. More
New York: Tibet House US with Overlook Duckworth, 2009. Quarto (30.5x23.5x3cm); xiv + 299pp, including bibliography and index. Color photographs throughout by John Bigelow Taylor. Photographic dust jacket. Bright coral red linen with gilt stamping on spine and front panel. Jacket nearly as new with only one small scrape..... More
New York: Department of Asian Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Tall octavo. 367 pages + glossary. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges of wraps with some faint general rubbing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Taipei, Taiwan: Artist Publishing Co., 1990. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial glossy card wrappers; [6],138pp.; illus. throughout, many printed in color. Wrappers a bit creased, with a solid bump at bottom corner running throughout, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Exhibition catalog to accompany an art show..... More