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A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-tung. LIMITED EDITION
by AYLING, Alan, Duncan MacKINTOSH, and T'ung PING-CHENG (trans)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0950215945
- ISBN 13
- 9780950215945
- Seller
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About This Item
The Whittington Press, 1974. ~Full pictorial cloth with design of birds, beasts, and flowers to boards. Title label printed in blue to spine, very slightly marked. Very small (c. 1cm across) manufacturer's flaw or abrasion to cloth on spine. Folio (20.2 x 29.3cm). Top edges gilt, other edges deckled. Marbled endpapers by the Compton Press. With original deep blue paper covered slipcase in Near Fine condition, very minor crease near base. Title page printed in blue & black. Parallel English and Chinese texts, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan and English translations versified by Alan Ayling from translations by Duncan MacKintosh in collaboration with T'ung Ping-Cheng. Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu. Notes and index to rear. One of a limited edition of 200 copies printed by John & Rosalind Randle and Charles Lowndes at the Whittington Press, of which this is no. 100. Signed by both Alan Ayling and Duncan MacKintosh on colophon. Printed in Caslon type on Wookey Hole handmade paper and bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh, using cloth supplied by celebrated textile firm Warner and Sons. A very attractive early edition from the Whittington Press, from the first year of its full-time operation. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. . Signed by translators. 1st edn. Hardback. Fine. viii, 94, (1)pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.
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- St Philip's Books
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- Title
- A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-tung. LIMITED EDITION
- Author
- AYLING, Alan, Duncan MacKINTOSH, and T'ung PING-CHENG (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st edn
- ISBN 10
- 0950215945
- ISBN 13
- 9780950215945
- Publisher
- The Whittington Press
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- viii, 94, (1)pp
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The standard shipping costs shown are calculated for parcels weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your parcel is heavier than this or oversized, we may contact you before despatch to request extra shipping charges.
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Please allow for possible extended shipping times due to the impact of the pandemic and related restrictions.
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