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T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien: Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution
by Carus, Paul & Teitaro Suzuki [D. T. Suzuki], translators
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1944. Classic of Taoist piety & ethics, presenting the original Chinese, literal translation, prose interpretations, commentary. 1944 reprint; originally published in 1906. Hardcover, full ochre cloth, red titling, blue decoration. Light wear to book, minor rubbing, minor bubbling to cloth, pages tanned; no jacket - likely issued in plain glassine. Text clean; [4], 139 pages; index, illustrations from old Chinese paintings, b/w frontispiece plate.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- r1148
- Title
- T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien: Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution
- Author
- Carus, Paul & Teitaro Suzuki [D. T. Suzuki], translators
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Open Court
- Place of Publication
- La Salle, IL
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Taoism, Ethics, Chinese Religion, Chinese Philosophy, Morality, Moral Philosophy
- Size
- Small Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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