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Verlag: Hutchinson, 1950
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1950. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Green with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Verlag: Hutchinson and Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1950
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 176 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, frontispiece partially detached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to edges. Water stain to front board. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Water staining to both panels. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.
Verlag: Davies, 1948
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1948. 398 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Verlag: Hutchinson, 1950
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 176 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild bleach spotting, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.
Verlag: Davies, 1948
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Good. 1948. First Edition. 398 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Light foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. Slightly more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends.
Verlag: London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1934, 1934
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe Signiert
First edition, signed limited issue, number 19 of 100 copies only signed, stamped, and numbered by the author and printed on handmade paper. Premiered in 1934, Hsiung's adaptation of this classic Chinese play was a London and New York sensation, running for 1,000 nights in the West End and earning him the admiration of Bernard Shaw. Copies are scarce in this condition with the original jacket. Lady Precious Stream narrates the traditional Chinese story Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui, in which the beautiful and aristocratic Wang falls in love with Xue, a humble gardener. Set in the Tang dynasty, it is a classic examination of the overlap and tension between romance and social strictures. Lascelles Abercrombie's preface makes clear the power of Hsiung's adaptation: "I am not likely to forget the first time I read it. That July afternoon was enchanted, and so abides in my memory. But the enchanter was Mr. Hsiung" (p. vii). "If any person could be considered to represent twentieth-century China, from the overthrow of the Manchu Qing dynasty through to the establishment of the People's Republic, from long-gowned tradition to Western-suited modernity, from Classical Chinese to the vernacular, it is Shih-I Hsiung" (Wood, p. 1). Loosely inserted is the publisher's prospectus, on which a near-contemporary owner has commented, "a delicious book!" Frances Wood, "Introduction" in Zheng Da, Deh-I Hsiung & Yimin Foo, Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman, 2020. Octavo. Original grey boards, cream cloth backstrip, printed paper spine label, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece tipped onto grey card, 2 similar plates and another plate, all by Hsu Pei-Hung; illustrations in text by Chiang Yee. Backstrip and jacket spine slightly toned, unclipped: a fine copy in like jacket.
Verlag: London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1936
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Third edition. With a preface by Lascelles Abercrombie. Small 8vo (7.5 x 5.25 ins); pp xx + [168] + [2]; Tipped in coloured frontispiece. Publisher's buff cloth with Chinese symbols to front board and spine, also title lettering. A VG copy, front endpaper neatly excised, next endpaper with large Chinese symbols. Book.