The Junkman Smiles

London: Chatto & Windus, 1959 Excellent work on Chinese Junks by a long-time employee of the Chinese Maritime Customs, and the acknowledged author on the subject. Warmly inscribed by the author - with his "chop". Yellow boards are somewhat stained and grubby, and there is some scattered foxing affecting the map end sheets and the edges of the book block, else VG… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. 254 pages. Pink pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated by the author. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1959. The author served for many years in the Chinese Maritime Customs service, prior to the Communist revolution, surveying China's great rivers. In the process he developed a deep expertise on the Chinese inland watercraft known in the West as junks. The present volume details his rich affection not only for the native vessels and their… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends… Read more about this item

With illustrations by the Author. London: Chatto and Windus, 1959 8vo. 254pp. 6 plates, numerous text illustrations, end-paper maps, dw. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth with the dust-wrapper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world… Read more about this item

UsedVeryGood. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

UK: Chatto & Windus, 1959. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Hardback with dust jacket, book clean, page edges shelf dust on one page tiny bit of mark to page edge, jacket some scuffs and marks and a little scuffy.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1959., 1959. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: White Lotus Press, 1959. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.60. Junkman Smiles, The