A String Of Chinese Peach-Stones

London.: Charles H. Kelly.. 1895.. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard, lacks the second coloured plate. Numerous black and white facsimiles of Chinese art and penmanship throughout. Name of prior owner dated 1925 Chefoo and a tipped in letter to her - handwritten by J.L. Smith of the H.B.M Consulate Chefoo on the rear of the frontis. Rebacked in quarter leather presumably… Read more about this item

London: Charles H. Kelly. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Hinges not tight. Endpapers, first and last few pages darkened. Small open tear to top right corner of front free endpaper. Former owner's name on front free endpaper which has also bled through to the half title page; Black boards with gilt lettering and gilt design. Numerous b&w … Read more about this item

London: Charles H. Kelly. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Gutters split at hinge.; xv, [1], 479, [3 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 colour plate. Numerous in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and Chinese characters on spine. No illustration to boards. Page dimensions: 216 x 147mm. The colour plate is… Read more about this item

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1895, hardcover with gilt stamped black cloth boards, octavo, 479pp., frontispiece and one other illustration in color, otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild rubbing and edgewear to boards, handsome gilt titles and decorations to boards, binding just tender with inner hinges cracked, previous owner's… Read more about this item

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1895. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing Large octav hardback Dark slate blue cloth pictorial gilt spine titles xvi + 480 pages Many illustrations tiny amount of foxing at end papers otherwise Very Good condition No inscriptions. About village life in China… Read more about this item

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1895. Hardcover. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight without dust jacket as published.. Reprinted by Gale Research, Detroit, 1974. 479pp.

Singapore. Graham Brash., 1988.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 479pp. b/w ills. Nice copy. Twenty-four stories picked up along the highways and byways of central China between 1849 and 1867.

Gale Group, 1974-06. Hardcover. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

New.