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Grove Press, Inc., 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, library stamps and markings.. 1923. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. List of books, index, plates in black and white and in color. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Benn, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings.

New York: Grove Press, 1958. xii, 261 [1]p., plus 99 b/w or colored plates with facing captions, colored front., original red cloth, quarto format.

London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; G+; light brown spine with gilt text; first edition; no jacket; cloth exterior shows modest shelf wear; some scruffing to edges and joints; beveled edges; strong boards; tight binding; textblock edges have slight toning due to age; offsetting to fep; frontispiece; slight wrinkles to head fore edge to first few pages; small hole to head fore corners to first few pages; previous owners' names fep; tiny hole to head and tail fore edge to rear endpaper; light foxing inside, mostly to first and last few pages; 49 plates with tissue guards, 6 in color and 43 in monochrome; light damp staining to head edges toward rear pages, impacting some plates; mild defect to gutter between plates 21 and 22; pp 262; arts-Asian [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates].… Read More

New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. reprint. Hardcover in slipcase. 49 b&w plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 262 pages; 1958 Grove Press. Oversize slipcased hardcover snugly bound and fresh in uniformly bright red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. 262 pages of text accompanied by 49 b&w plates with facing page notes. Publisher's black paper covered slipcase is sound and clean bit with some rubbing and mild flaking to paper at lower open corners and a light tear and snag to the cover paper at a top corner. Book is NF in about VG slipcase. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Cloth. Very good but for small stains on spine and front and back covers.

London: Ernest Benn, Limited., 1923. first edition. hardcover. Very good. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles, very light wear, small spot on front cover, but still Very Good. Quarto, xii [2] 3-262 pages followed by section of plates. Color frontispiece: The Ch'Ang-Lo Palace, after Li Ssu-hsun in the British Museum. Six color plates (including frontis.) and 43 plates in half-tone, all with tissue guards. No foxing. A very nice copy. This heavy book will cost more than the standard rate to ship outside of the U.S.

London: Ernest Benn, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 262pp. including index. 49pp. of plates from photographs. Toning to endpapers. Light foxing to top edge. Some light toning to pages. Grey cloth stamped in gold.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Quarto, 260 pages, XLIX plates. In Good condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt text on spine. Boards show rubbing to corners, bending and fraying to spine edges, and mild shelfwear. Textblock has water staining to fore and head edges, light age toning, and previous owner's name on front endpaper. Shelved Front Table. 1371692. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York NY,, 1923. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 5 coloured plates and 44 plates in monochrome (all original captioned tissue guards present); small neat signature on front paste-down, half-title lightly spotted; original chocolate buckram, gilt back, bevelled boards, covers lightly rubbed at extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the centenary trade ticket of Old Corner Book Store, Boston MA on front free endpaper. Published simultaneously with the UK edition.

London: Ernest Benn. Clean very good 1923 hard cover London first edition. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 1923.

Ernest Benn, London., 1923. First edition. Quarto. pp xii, 261. 49 plates, six in colour, all of which have captioned tissue guards. Pink-grey cloth with bevelled edges.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, slightly marked and rubbed, darkened at the spine and with several nicks and a 6 cm closed tear which have been repaired on the reverse.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1923. De Luxe edition. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library with spine label remnant, bookplate, and small embossment on an early page; frontispiece page, tissue guard, and title page are lightly foxed; most pages are quite clean; back section tissue guards are lightly tanned; extra reinforcement of inner hinges; some light spotting on leather boards; average wear to outer spine and cover corners, rubbed down; overall quite nice for age and materials.). Pigskin leather, gilt letters on spine, gilt top edges, 261 text pp. plus 48 plate pages at rear; color plate as frontispiece; hand-made paper. A special edition of this treatment of Chinese painting. Approaches the subject matter in a series of essays defined by dynasties. One color plate appears as the frontispiece; the remaining 4 color plates and 44 BW plates appear at the rear of the volume with numbered tissue guards. This is #23 of only 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist on opening colophon. A rare find indeed.