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London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1938 Hardcover. First edition "The strange and delicate charm that we find in old Chinese ARt looks out at us from this gallery of the portraits of Chinese laides, famous in two thousand years of the history of their country . Some of them were wives, some courtesans, some empresses, but they were all women who had power and knew how to wield it". Rust [orange-brown] cloth with gold gilt spine lettering, 332 pages, illustrated [in black-and-white from Chinese originals], sources, index. Very good with fore-edge foxing in very good jacket some toning to the spine which is worn at the ends, partial sticker/ghost to the upper right corner of the front panel clphE

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. The author writes in her Introduction: "As a great admirer of Chinese women I have endeavoured to piece together in this book the details of the lives of a few outstanding personages." No publishing date is listed. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. No shelfwear. 8 plates of women displaying their fashion. Sources and Index at end. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages .

John Lane, London 1938, 1st, hb, no dw, 8vo, 332pp, illust, vg. Hardcover.

London: John Lane, 1938. 8vo, pp. 332. Illustrated. A nice copy in little worn dj. The lives of ten Chinese women of history: some wives, some courtesans, some empresses, but all powerful.

John Lane,. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. Jacket flap laid in, nice copy ; 332 pages .

London: The Bodley Head, 1938. Hardcover. 332p., illustrated with scattered b&w reproductions, hardbound in openweave pumpkin-pie- orange cloth gilt and dustjacket; top edge tinted, untrimmed edges, a beautiful production in near-fine condition (dj is very faintly handled with a touch of dust).

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 332pp. Foxing on first and last few leaves, else near fine in a bit soiled else near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author.