Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking: as recorded in the Yen-chin Sui-shih-chi
by Tun Li-Ch'en : translated and annotated by Derk Bodde:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clunes, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 1968 second printing of second edition with minor corrections 1000 copies ( first edition Peiping 1936). hard cover, dust jacket, red cloth, 147pp with index, bibliography, appendices, endpaper diagrams, 2 tipped in colour plates-( the gate gods : frontispieces), colour and black and white plates, one folding, other black and white line drawings throughout, small tear to top spine edge of dust jacket, jacket now in a removable plastic sleeve, previous owner's name to free front endpaper, all in very good condition in very good dust jacket. No ISBN. photo available on request.
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- Bookseller
- Book Fossicker (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23700
- Title
- Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking: as recorded in the Yen-chin Sui-shih-chi
- Author
- Tun Li-Ch'en : translated and annotated by Derk Bodde:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 1968 second printing of second edition with minor corrections 1000 copies ( first edition
- Keywords
- China customs history festivals culture
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Clunes, Victoria
About Book Fossicker
After selling from a street address for the past 8 years, we are now based again as an on-line only business. Postal address is now PO Box 81 Clunes Victoria 3370. I am an experienced bookseller, having sold secondhand books for over 30 years in various ways and from various locations, and intend to keep providing the same standard of expertise and knowledge into the future. * PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF POSTAL ADDRESS
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