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. One small lacuna to coating on rear surface; spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock clearly perused but..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Entirely in Chinese. 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..... 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: Harper & Brothers, 1860. No edition statement. 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"); 335pp. Ten engravings including frontis, all present. Publisher's blindstamped red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards scuffed, soiled, and smudged, with cracking down front joint, chipping at spine ends, and bumping to corners. Occasional smudging in..... 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. Covers lightly shelfworn with some faint smudging along..... 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
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. First Edition. Tall quarto (35.5x25.5x2.5cm); 200pp, including glossary, index of artists, and bibliography. Forty-three figures; 101 plates—about a quarter of them in color. Pictorial wrappers in exceptionally heavy card; calligraphic pastedowns and flyleaves in dark goldenrod laid paper. Sewn gatherings. Textblock in heavy..... 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
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N.p.: Privately Printed, 1949, 1953, 1957. First Editions. Japanese Sculpture volume signed and dated by translator Yuko Nonomura on full title. Octavos; 56pp, 94pp; 130pp. Photos throughout. In beige, pink, and red cloth boards with black lettering. Plain brown paper dust jackets over reach, with "Sample Page" stamped at top..... More
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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: 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
Esslingen: Paul Neff Verlag, 1910-1912. First Edition. Two volumes; oversize octavos (26cm.); recent full brown cloth, black paper spine labels lettered in tan; xiii,[3],350; xxi,[1],500pp.; color frontispiece, thirty-six color plates, half-tone illus. throughout text. Front hinge of Vol. I a bit loose, else a Very Good or better set in..... More
New York: Hacker Art Books, Inc., 1973. Reprint Edition, Vol IV only of seven-volume set. Octavo (28.5x23x2cm); x + 240pp, including bibliography. Orange cloth with black, gray, and gold stamping. Ex-lib.—but with no internal library markings, only call number label at spine foot. Minimal shelfwear; spine label noted above;..... More
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pages. Signed by author to William Safire on half title page with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / In friendship and / admiration. / Richard Bernstein / 11/15/85[?]" Bernstein's first book helped establish his reputation as an expert on..... More
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition, wrapper issue. Quarto. 360 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Errata slip laid in. Wraps gently worn along edges. Binding sound. A touch of dust soiling along top edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. More
Princeton and New York: Princeton University Art Museum and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Quarto (31x24x3.5cm); xx + 451pp, including bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 487 images, including 35 color plates and 79 in B&W. Illustrated dustjacket. Black cloth boards stamped in blind on front panel, in..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; xxiv + 336pp, including bibliography and index. A map, calligraphic reproduction, or historical novel illustration opens each chapter. White dust jacket of laid paper with blue and black lettering and cover illustration. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1959 but 1961]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],202pp.; illus. General edge wear, jacket spine panel lightly toned, unobtrusive tape repair to verso of rear panel, very slight spine lean, else a Very Good copy overall. The second..... More