tseng wen shen (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 12mo, 19.8*13.7cm, 289pp. Slight wear to boards, toning to endpaperss, internal pages clean and bright, firm binding. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy. Dust jacket has some chipping and small tears to top and bottom of spine. Small tears and creases to edges. Small hole to front of dust jacket and some insect damage. Small piece missing from fold of rear flap. Tears to top and bottom of front and rear flaps. Almost complete dust jacket. Price intact. Bright orange cloth. Book slightly cocked. Bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners of book. Gift inscription to FFE. Book is toned to edges and throughout. Otherwise a good solid copy of a very scarce title.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First English-language edition, first printing. 289 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with lettering and lotus design stamped in white. Near Fine with slight slant to spine, light rubbing and soiling to covers, and bump to lower corner of front board. Offsetting to endpapers, previous owner name to front free endpaper. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear including chip to upper left of front panel; faint stain to rear panel. Rare. The first English-language edition of Shen Congwen's collection of short fiction, which includes his masterpiece novella "The Frontier City" or "Bian Cheng," now generally translated as "Border Town." Shen is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese novelists, though his fiction writing came to an end under the pressure of the Chinese Communist regime.