The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
by WILHELM, RICHARD (Trans & Explained by) & JUNG, C G (European Commentary)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
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About This Item
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957. Octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt chinese characters/lettering to front board, frontispiece, ix + 151pp, illus, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, sm patch of paper residue to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep, light foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, v heavy closed tearing & loss to base of covers & spine, moderate to heavy discolouration to spine, moderate soiling, price clipped)
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- Title
- The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
- Author
- WILHELM, RICHARD (Trans & Explained by) & JUNG, C G (European Commentary)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957
- Keywords
- ancient Chinese wisdom China philosophy
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Closed Tearing
- Closed tear indicates a torn page in which no material has been lost. A closed tear can be pressed back into place or sometimes...
- Spine
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- G+
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...