ISBN: 9780882250229 - forbidden city (wonders of man) (25 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. no dust jacket. 1st Printing 1972. Brown cloth boards with gilt design on the front cover and spine. The cover shows minor wear with a small stain on the front. The binding is tight and pages are clean without inscriptions or markings. No dust jacket present.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Forbidden City (Wonders of Man) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Printed endpapers. Profusely illustrated. 172 pages. 4to, pictorially gilt stamped brown cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Newsweek, 1972. Near-fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung; Einriss bis 1 cm. Traces the history of the imperial Chinese city, focusing on the rulers who have contributed to its grandeur since the thirteenth century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards are brown, with a gilt illustration on the front and gilt lettering on the spine. There are minimal bumps and scuffs, if any. Pages are clean, with black and white / coloured detailed pictorial illustrations. The pages are in a near fine condition. The jacket is in a very good condition with some very slight colour discolouration, but very minimal if any other issues. This is a readers digest book. The overall condition of this book is very good/near fine. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Heavy Book, might require extra postage.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages; Physical description: 5-172p. : ill. (some col), facsims., col maps, plans, ports. (some col) ; 30cm. Subjects: Forbidden City (Beijing, China) -- Imperial Palace, Peking. Palaces -- China -- Beijing -- History. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages; Physical description: 5-172p. : ill. (some col), facsims., col maps, plans, ports. (some col) ; 30cm. Subjects: Forbidden City (Beijing, China) -- Imperial Palace, Peking. Palaces -- China -- Beijing -- History. 2 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: The Reader's Digest Association Limited, in association with Newsweek, New York, 1972. (Wonders of Man). First edition. 172p. Over 150 illustrations, many in colour. A very good copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 172pp. With nearly 150 illustrations, many in colour, this account describes China's Forbidden City which only became accessible to all Chinese citizens after the 1911 revolution. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 11.5 x 9 inches.…

Zustand: Good. Light scuffs & scratches to jacket, wear to edges & faded spine. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Hardcover wit. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDHistory: Very good hardcover creased and nicked with dust jacket. clean pages, tips bumped.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Traces the history of the imperial Chinese city, focusing on the rulers who have contributed to its grandeur since the thirteenth century. Large; Heavy; DJ. 172 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 172 pages. dj faded, plastic cover cracked and brokenTraces the history of the imperial Chinese city, focusing on the rulers who h ave contributed to its grandeur since the thirteenth century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Readers Digest UK Edition in assocaition with Newsweek with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 23 x 29.5 cm.; 1.2 kg.; 172 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches, is faded on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior with signs of wear. Good readable/working copy.; The Cloistered Splendour of the Forbidden City has intrigued and baffled Western visitors to Peking since the days of the illustrious Ming dynasty. Built by Emperor Yung Lo during the first decades of the seventeenth century, this labyrinthine complex of audience halls, servants' quarters, royal apartments, and interconnecting courtyards served the highly specialised needs of China's emperors and their enormous retinues for three centuries. The first imperial residence on the site of the Forbidden City was built in 1274 by Kublai Khan, the barbarian conqueror whose armies overran Asia and Europe. His palace was levelled by the conquering Ming less than a century after it had been built, but during those decades its magnificence was recorded in Marco Polo's extraordinary memoirs. Beautiful as Kublai's palace was, it was no match for the Ming palace that replaced it. Riding on slim columns of brilliantly lacquered wood, the golden roofs of the Forbidden City lifted gracefully bowed eaves above the sere North China plain. Here China's last emperors, the Ch'ing, or Manchus, lived in medieval luxury, cut off from their subjects and from the encroaching nineteenth-century world. Intractable, despotic, and intensely xenophobic, the Manchus clung to outmoded tradition in the face of continuing pressure from reform-minded citizens and trade-hungry Westerners. The result of their folly was a series of military humiliations that soon reduced the Chinese to vassalage in their own land-and led, perhaps inevitably, to the cataclysmic revolution of 1911. Only then were the gates of the once-forbidden palace opened to every Chinese citizen. The Forbidden City has remained a popular tourist attraction, one that was on President Nixon's itinerary during his visit to China early in 1972. Nearly 150 illustrations-a third in full colour-supplement and enhance this detailed history of imperial Peking and its fabled palace complex. Delicately tinted scrolls, vibrantly coloured pottery, handsome manuscript illuminations, numerous modern photographs, and a number of specially commissioned diagrams, maps, and charts complement the text. A special section, The Forbidden City in Literature, assembles excerpts from the works of Marco Polo, Nikos Kazantzakis, Simone de Beauvoir, and P'u-yi, China's last emperor. A reference section-including a chronology, guides to the Great Wall and other Chinese monuments, and a bibliography-concludes the volume.…

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.