Munich: Prestel, 2011. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 219pp.; photographic illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Minute shelf wear and very faint soil to jacket extremities, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. More
[Paris]: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1970. First Edition. Tall, narrow octavo (24cm.); publisher's decorative white card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 270pp.; Chinese text printed in red throughout, text in English and French printed in black. Light wear and dustiness, faint spine crease, else Very Good and sound. More
![Item #31762 Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World [Inscribed and Signed by Munroe]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31762.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738003130)
[New York]: Guggenheim, [2017]. First Edition, First Printing. Large quarto; publisher's grey pictorial paper-covered boards; 324pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to board margins, textblock a bit cockled from exposure to damp, else a Very Good, sound example. Inscribed and signed by co-author and curator Alexandra Murnoe to title page..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Board of Foreign Missions / Reformed Church in the United States, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 157 pp. 30 photographic plates, including frontispiece; black and white map, complete. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges and spine ends mildly nudged. Binding is sound and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, grey-green topstain, in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; 205pp.; photographic illus. throughout, some in color. Moderate shelf wear to jacket and board margins, light dust-soil, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Generously-illustrated examination of stoneware from the Chinese..... More
Octagonal collapsible tabletop candle screen composed of white cloth over stiff card stock to which is mounted to each folding panel a 3-D cloth, silk, and hand-colored paper rendering of the Eight Immortals, accompanied by a separate octagonal card paper base. Cloth slightly foxed at extremities, perished tape repair visible..... More
New York: Continuum, 1997. First English-Language Edition. Octavo. 568pp. Charts and graphs throughout. Printed dust jacket; black boards stamped in silver. Rubbing and light scuffing to dust jacket. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. More
![Item #27830 Christianity in the Oriental Mind [Signed and Inscribed]. Dr. Su Jan Lee](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27830.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698170689)
Taipei, Taiwan: Published by Yen Hsung Printing Company, 1967. First Edition. Signed by Dr. Lee with gift inscription on full title, with Lee's business card laid in at front. Octavo. 204 pp. Printed dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt and red. Dust jacket worn along edges; general rubbing; chip..... 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 Arts Centre, 2010. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); 245pp. Boards bound in silky red cloth with mounted lenticular illustration; charcoal endsheets. Photographs throughout. Boards bumped lightly at spine ends and corners; binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. A Near Fine copy of this exhibition catalog..... 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
Seattle: Between Dreams Press, 1992. Limited First Edition of 150 copies. Side-stapled chapbook (19.7cm); blue paper wraps with mounted woodcut by Dan Heitkamp; [32]pp. Front cover a bit rippled at top edge with some toning along spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked. First collection by the Chinese Misty..... More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 155pp. Black and white photographs and sheet music. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges; corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. A couple stains to top edge; interior unmarked. A Very Good or better..... More
Paris: Victor Lecou, n.d. [ca. 1845]. Presumed First Edition. Folio (34.5cm); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover elaborately stamped in gilt within blind rules, small gilt vignette to rear cover, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers; twenty (20) leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates facing explanatory text printed on versos only. Light wear..... 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
New York: University Press of America, Inc., 1998. Octavo. 223pp. Black boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Bumping and light wear to edges and spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. 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
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
![Item #33120 Tales and Parables of Old China [Limited Edition]. Lin Yutang, Goodman Loy, trans](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750082132)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California / Random House, 1943. Limited Edition of 550 copies. Staple bound self-wrappers (24 cm); unpaginated. Black and red printing throughout with a black illustration at sixth page. Extremities bumped and rubbed with toning at spine margin, light soiling, and minor bumped tear to..... More
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Linwood Company, 1940. Octavo (24cm); publisher's red photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; [12],16pp.; illus. throughout including halftone photographs, thirty-four (34) fabric samples mounted to early leaves, advertisement for Pei Yang Ginseng Co. of Shanghai, China, printed on rear wrapper. Some rubbing and tiny chips to wrapper margins, else..... 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
Washington, DC / Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Stanford University Press, [1998]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xxii,404pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, light finger soil to final leaves, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Forms part of..... More
Tokyo: Sophia University, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (27 cm); 139pp. Boards in oatmeal cloth and decorative paper with green and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in teal jacket with price intact. Jacket generally scuffed and soiled with minor wear to extremities. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Previous..... More