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Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Sarah Sisco (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Trade. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Sarah Sisco (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0939246112.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Standard. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN. …

290 p 24 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica con solapas. Estado de conservación: Muy bien.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Poor. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Fair. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: Gut. Orignale cloth with gold embossing (Hardcover) (xiv), 383 p. With frontispiece of the Princess and twenty-one illustrations made from photographs. Very good condition. Only light traces of time. Inside, however, it is clean, tidy and beautiful. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 770.

paperback. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in yellow, printed endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Published simultaneously with Dodd Mead's US edition.…

Pp. (xiv), 383. With frontispiece of the Princess and twenty-one illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine end lightly rubbed. Early reprint of the first edition (1911). An interesting account of Empress Dowager Cixi and her life at the Palace. The author was educated in France and exposed to Western cultures, served as the Empress Dowager's lady-in-waiting and interpreter. This book was published just before the fall of the Qing dynasty.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

New York [1932], Dodd. Green cloth, end paper illustrations, very solid, 322p., 6 b. w. illustrations by S. Pinkus, gold stamped decorations,15 22.5 cm.,clean, & bright, spine a bit faded, solid, contents pristine.*FIRST EDITION 4th PRINTING* . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY RESOURCE BY A CHINESE LADY IN WAITING . . . TO OTHE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS CIXI . . . * * FIRST EDITION * * . * KOWTOW: A traditional Chinese gesture of deep respect where one kneels and bows so low that their head touches the ground. In Chinese culture, it is the highest sign of reverence. The word comes from the Chinese KOUTOU, is a combination of the verb Kou ("to knock") and the noun Tou ("head.") . *** Some chapter titles: Memories of Sha-Ssu. The Solemn Courtyard, Foreign Devil-Doll, Through the teakwood panels, Those terrible Manchus, Green broadcloth, Yamen walls, War clouds, Audience with Prince Kung, Legation opening, China's great statesmen, On to Paris and others. . * This is a primary account of the author's life. It also contains her fascinating insights to many famous people, including Sun Yat Sen, Isadora Duncan, Elizabeth Queen, the German Minister to Japan, President Loubet of France and several others, whom she met or observed at the Chinese court. . * Essentially the personal reminiscences of the author's life as a lady in waiting to the last Empress of China T'zu His of China. A very fascinating primary insight into real life in the Chinese court. . *** PRINCESS DER LING [De Ling 1885-1944]: She was a member of an old Chinese royal family and first lady in waiting to China's Last Dowager Empress Cixi [aka.: T'zu-Hsi/Tzu Hsi, or Hsiao-ch'en.] . She authored eight best-selling books about her life in the Chinese Royal court, and accounts and stories about China. She was married to an American, T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photo-copy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This is loosely laid inside the book. . Her other titles also include insights to her life in the Palace as well as other fascinating perspectives on China and her life & travels in China. . *** CONDITION: Generic: This copy is bound in the original Jade-green pictorial cloth, with gold-stamped pictorial cover and spine titles. The books is very clean and solid, with very little wear, contents are pristine, no issues. . As usual for a book nearly 100 years old there is a touch of minor signs of wear, edge & corner mild rubbing and the like. Any specific issues are pointed out in the listing of each individual copy. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . From WIKIPEDIA: . "Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, a victim of the hallucinogenic effects of too much publicity, much of it prompted by Der Ling herself, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures -that of China and the West but among many different worlds: social, religious, moral, political. Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, her life as Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed -the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century." . -wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling . * Visit our website where other titles are available with photos. . *.…

Zustand: Like New. Used - Like New. Chinese edition. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

London, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., sans date, (1934) in-8 de 288 pp., reliure de l'éditeur de pleine percaline violette, titre doré sur le dos et le 1er plat, jaquette de papier violet illustrée d'un motif d'encensoir doré (assez bien conservée), tête violette, rousseurs sur les tranches, sinon bel exemplaire. Ed. orig. joliment illustrée par Bertha LUMN de 6 compositions en couleurs hors-texte dont le frontispice, et de dessins en noir dans le texte.…

New York [1929], Dodd. Green cloth, end paper illustions very solid, 322p., 6 b. w. illustrations by S. Pinkus, gold stamped decorations,15 22.5 cm., clean, bright & solid copy, bit of spine hinge & corner rubbing. * * FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY RESOURCE BY A CHINESE LADY IN WAITING . . . TO OTHE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS CIXI . . . * * FIRST EDITION * * . * KOWTOW: A traditional Chinese gesture of deep respect where one kneels and bows so low that their head touches the ground. In Chinese culture, it is the highest sign of reverence. The word comes from the Chinese KOUTOU, is a combination of the verb Kou ("to knock") and the noun Tou ("head.") . *** Some chapter titles: Memories of Sha-Ssu. The Solemn Courtyard, Foreign Devil-Doll, Through the teakwood panels, Those terrible Manchus, Green broadcloth, Yamen walls, War clouds, Audience with Prince Kung, Legation opening, China's great statesmen, On to Paris and others. . * This is a primary account of the author's life. It also contains her fascinating insights to many famous people, including Sun Yat Sen, Isadora Duncan, Elizabeth Queen, the German Minister to Japan, President Loubet of France and several others, whom she met or observed at the Chinese court. . * Essentially the personal reminiscences of the author's life as a lady in waiting to the last Empress of China T'zu His of China. A very fascinating primary insight into real life in the Chinese court. . *** PRINCESS DER LING [De Ling 1885-1944]: She was a member of an old Chinese royal family and first lady in waiting to China's Last Dowager Empress Cixi [aka.: T'zu-Hsi/Tzu Hsi, or Hsiao-ch'en.] . She authored eight best-selling books about her life in the Chinese Royal court, and accounts and stories about China. She was married to an American, T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photo-copy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This is loosely laid inside the book. . Her other titles also include insights to her life in the Palace as well as other fascinating perspectives on China and her life & travels in China. . *** CONDITION: Generic: This copy is bound in the original Jade-green pictorial cloth, with gold-stamped pictorial cover and spine titles. The books is very clean and solid, with very little wear, contents are pristine, no issues. . As usual for a book nearly 100 years old there is a touch of minor signs of wear, edge & corner mild rubbing and the like. Any specific issues are pointed out in the listing of each individual copy. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . From WIKIPEDIA: . "Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, a victim of the hallucinogenic effects of too much publicity, much of it prompted by Der Ling herself, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures -that of China and the West but among many different worlds: social, religious, moral, political. Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, her life as Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed -the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century." . -wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling . * Visit our website where other titles are available with photos. . *.…

New York [1929], Dodd. Green cloth, end paper illustrations, very solid, 322p., 6 b. w. illustrations by S. Pinkus, gold stamped decorations,15 22.5 cm., clean, bright & solid copy, bit of spine hinge & corner rubbing. * * FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY RESOURCE BY A CHINESE LADY IN WAITING . . . TO OTHE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS CIXI . . . * * FIRST EDITION * * . * KOWTOW: A traditional Chinese gesture of deep respect where one kneels and bows so low that their head touches the ground. In Chinese culture, it is the highest sign of reverence. The word comes from the Chinese KOUTOU, is a combination of the verb Kou ("to knock") and the noun Tou ("head.") . *** Some chapter titles: Memories of Sha-Ssu. The Solemn Courtyard, Foreign Devil-Doll, Through the teakwood panels, Those terrible Manchus, Green broadcloth, Yamen walls, War clouds, Audience with Prince Kung, Legation opening, China's great statesmen, On to Paris and others. . * This is a primary account of the author's life. It also contains her fascinating insights to many famous people, including Sun Yat Sen, Isadora Duncan, Elizabeth Queen, the German Minister to Japan, President Loubet of France and several others, whom she met or observed at the Chinese court. . * Essentially the personal reminiscences of the author's life as a lady in waiting to the last Empress of China T'zu His of China. A very fascinating primary insight into real life in the Chinese court. . *** PRINCESS DER LING [De Ling 1885-1944]: She was a member of an old Chinese royal family and first lady in waiting to China's Last Dowager Empress Cixi [aka.: T'zu-Hsi/Tzu Hsi, or Hsiao-ch'en.] . She authored eight best-selling books about her life in the Chinese Royal court, and accounts and stories about China. She was married to an American, T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photo-copy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This is loosely laid inside the book. . Her other titles also include insights to her life in the Palace as well as other fascinating perspectives on China and her life & travels in China. . *** CONDITION: Generic: This copy is bound in the original Jade-green pictorial cloth, with gold-stamped pictorial cover and spine titles. The books is very clean and solid, with very little wear, contents are pristine, no issues. . As usual for a book nearly 100 years old there is a touch of minor signs of wear, edge & corner mild rubbing and the like. Any specific issues are pointed out in the listing of each individual copy. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . From WIKIPEDIA: . "Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, a victim of the hallucinogenic effects of too much publicity, much of it prompted by Der Ling herself, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures -that of China and the West but among many different worlds: social, religious, moral, political. Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, her life as Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed -the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century." . -wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling . * Visit our website where other titles are available with photos. . *.…

New York 1929, Dodd. Yellow cloth, 347p., 22 b. w. photos, brilliant, clean & bright copy,a couple of fox spots on 2p., else contents brilliantly clean,no other issues, 14.5 x 21.5 cm., exceptionallly clean copy. * * SECOND EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY ACCOUONT OF PRINCES DER LING . . . FIRST LADY IN WAITING TO THE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA . . . The title of this book reflects the nickname "The Old Buddha" for the Last Dowager Empress, Tzu Hsi, who was known as a strong ruler who put down many rebellions. . * Essentially the personal reminiscences of the author's life as a lady in waiting to the last Empress of China T'zu His of China. A very fascinating primary insight into real life in the Chinese court. . * Princess Der Ling [Dé Líng 1885-1944] was a member of an old Chinese royal family and first lady in waiting to China's Last Dowager Empress Cixi [aka.: T'zu-Hsi/Tzu Hsi, or Hsiao-ch'en] and write of eight best-selling books about China. She was married to an American T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photocopy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This will be laid in the book. . * FROM WIKIPEDIA: "Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, a victim of the hallucinogenic effects of too much publicity, much of it prompted by Der Ling herself, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures -that of China and the West -but among many different worlds: social, religious, moral, political. Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, her life as Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed -the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century." . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** Other books by Der Ling are found on our website. . *** REFERENCE: . en-wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling *. …