The Courtesan`s Jewel Box. Chinese Stories of the Xth - XVIIth Centuries
by Yang, Xianyi and Gladys (transl.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket and slipcase. Published Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981. Text in English. 8vo., vi+520pp., illustrated with plates. Pink paper covered boards with gilt and black titles, black pictorial over white cloth with pink titles and gilt decoration, art endpapers, red ribbon marker sewn in. Twenty stories. Near fine in very good dust jacket and slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008361
- Title
- The Courtesan`s Jewel Box. Chinese Stories of the Xth - XVIIth Centuries
- Author
- Yang, Xianyi and Gladys (transl.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Foreign Languages Press
- Place of Publication
- Beijing
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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