The Civilizations of the East: India by Rene Grousset - 1931

Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. B000P1BPZS 2nd printing 1941 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. Illustrated. Stand-alone volume IV in the series. . Very Good.

Cooper Square Pub, 1967-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

New York: Knopf, 1931. hardcover. very good. Illus. 8vo, black cloth. New York: Knopf, 1931. Very good<br/><br/>

Cooper Square Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight & bright condition but lacks a dust jacket as published. 363pp.

Knopf., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Spine faded else very good plus condition with text clean & binding sound.. 341pp., illus.

GROUSSET, Rene. THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE EAST: INDIA. New York: Knopf, 1931. 8vo. Cloth. (viii), 404, (2) pages. First English language edition. Being Volume II of The Civilizations of the East series. Very good.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. the boards are edge worn and sunned on the spine. ex-library copy with stamps, inscriptions and scarring. some occasional library markings. a bit marked. sound binding. fairly good copy. may require extra postage outside South Africa. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hamish Hamilton 1931. (Hardcover) 404pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black cloth with red titles on the spine and gilt decorations and title on the front cover. Top edge gilt, photographs, illustrations. The dust jacket has two minor chips to the back panel, is price-clipped on bothflaps and the covers are lightly splayed. "This is the most authoritative and complete history of Asiatic arts that has ever been written. The keynote of the entire book is development. Rene Grousset, of the Musee Guimet, traces clearly and skilfully the main lines of the evolution of Eastern art, showing exactly where and how the different tributaries, religious or national, came in to change its course". Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips. (History--Asia, Art History, Cultural Studies, Eastern Art, Eastern Religions, History--Asia).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1935, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) 363pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black cloth with red titles to the spine and gilt decoration to the cover and spine. Top edge gilt, notes, photographs. A large triangular piece missing from the bottom edge of the dust jacket back panel. "The author traces the formation and development of the Chinese aesthetic ideal in pottery, ceramics, painting, and sculpture from prehistoric to modern times. Each school of art is regarded in the light of its historical setting, and shown in relationship to the philosophy, religion, politics, and social culture of its day". Publisher series: Civilizations of the East 3 . Identified on cover as: China. Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips. Locale: Central Asia; China. (Art History, Art History).

Alfred A. Knopf New York 1941. Second English Printing 4 vols. v1 404pp v2 404pp v3 363pp v4 301pp ex libris (pockets and cancellation stamps) very good (sl rubbed, corners sl bruised, minor wear to spine heads and feet, minor bumps to upper and lower board edges, gilt upper edged pages), illust.