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The Way And Its Power: A Study Of The Tao Te Ching And Its Place In Chinese Thought
by WALEY, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Allen & Unwin, 1934. Hardback. First edition, 1934. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; boards rubbed with some edgewear, bumps to corners and spine, foxing to fore edges, pages clean and tightly bound, owners mark to ffep in Fair price-clipped dust jacket; edgeworn and marked with some chips and tears. Published: George Allen & Unwin, 1934
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- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12687
- Title
- The Way And Its Power: A Study Of The Tao Te Ching And Its Place In Chinese Thought
- Author
- WALEY, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
Roy Turner Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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