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Princes of Jade
by Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525183493
- ISBN 13
- 9780525183495
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
192 pages with frontispiece, plans, drawings, illustrations, plates (some in color), bibliography and index. Quarto (10" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. On the 27th of June, 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, great excitement was created througho0ut China by the discovery of the Man Ch'eng tombs - an excavation that ranks high among the great archaeological finds of this century. In these huge tombs, carved out of living rock, were found the bodies of Liu Sheng, a prince of the Han Dynasty (205 BC - 220 AD), and his consort, Princes Tou Wan. The bodies had been covered from head to toe in suits of finely carved, interlocking jade pieces, held together by wires of gold and silver - figures of exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. Condition: Page ends soiled, light shelf wear. Jacket edge wear with some closed tears else a very good copy in a very good to fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS007811
- Title
- Princes of Jade
- Author
- Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0525183493
- ISBN 13
- 9780525183495
- Publisher
- E P Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Quarto
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
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