MAHARAJAS' JEWELS by Prior, Katherine & John Adamson - 2000

London, Jonathan Cape, 1986, hardcover, 128 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket price-clipped, light rubs, slightest edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. Eight original stories about sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Beautifully illustrated throughout with 11 full-page color illustrations and numerous smaller black-&-white works by Jan Pienkowski. Red boards pictorially stamped in gold, color pictorial endpapers. ISBN 9780224028561

Set of five books. #1 The Corner House Girls Under Canvas1915 #2 The Corner House Girl Growing up 1918,#3 The Corner House Girls In a Play 1916, #4 The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies 1921, #5 The Corner House Girls At School 1915. All First edition. All in relatively good shape

Tan on boards with black and red design of Indians in a boat with sunset. some wear and loosening binding.

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, Lisbon/London, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover in slipcase (2 VOLUMES); 594 pages, 626 colour illustrations and 2 black & white illustrations; 312 colour illustrations; 23,5 x 29,7 cm; 4.4 kg; Volume One - Introduction: Teapots for the Domestic Market; Volume Two - Teapots for the Domestic Market.; This two-volume book focuses on the artistic, cultural, and historical motifs of Chinese porcelain teapots made for the domestic market, and will ultimately be part of a four-volume set, the third and fourth volumes to be dedicated to teapots made for the export market. The collection was started by Franco Cutrupia in 1981, who, soon after arriving in China, became fascinated by the beauty, variety of shapes, and decorative motifs of Chinese porcelain teapots. Later he was joined in his passion for Chinese porcelain by his wife, Pauline Ngai, a Chinese history major and author of this book. The book examines the auspicious motifs… Read More

Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, c. 1937. Signed and stamped by author. Hardcover. No DJ. Library binding; yellow buckram over boards. Condition: Very Good. Boards show light soiling overall with some light abrasion to corners and spine edges. Interior is age-toned overall but is clean and without marks except for the author's signature on the front flyleaf and a previous owner's name and date inside the front cover. Photo is of the copy for sale at Barbed Wire Books.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1986, hardcover, 128 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket price-clipped, light rubs, slightest edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. Eight original stories about sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime. Beautifully illustrated throughout with 11 full-page color illustrations and numerous smaller black-&-white works by Jan Pienkowski. Red boards pictorially stamped in gold, color pictorial endpapers. ISBN 9780224028561

Set of five books. #1 The Corner House Girls Under Canvas1915 #2 The Corner House Girl Growing up 1918,#3 The Corner House Girls In a Play 1916, #4 The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies 1921, #5 The Corner House Girls At School 1915. All First edition. All in relatively good shape

Tan on boards with black and red design of Indians in a boat with sunset. some wear and loosening binding.

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, Lisbon/London, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover in slipcase (2 VOLUMES); 594 pages, 626 colour illustrations and 2 black & white illustrations; 312 colour illustrations; 23,5 x 29,7 cm; 4.4 kg; Volume One - Introduction: Teapots for the Domestic Market; Volume Two - Teapots for the Domestic Market.; This two-volume book focuses on the artistic, cultural, and historical motifs of Chinese porcelain teapots made for the domestic market, and will ultimately be part of a four-volume set, the third and fourth volumes to be dedicated to teapots made for the export market. The collection was started by Franco Cutrupia in 1981, who, soon after arriving in China, became fascinated by the beauty, variety of shapes, and decorative motifs of Chinese porcelain teapots. Later he was joined in his passion for Chinese porcelain by his wife, Pauline Ngai, a Chinese history major and author of this book. The book examines the auspicious motifs… Read More

Boston: Chinese Service Bureau, c. 1937. Signed and stamped by author. Hardcover. No DJ. Library binding; yellow buckram over boards. Condition: Very Good. Boards show light soiling overall with some light abrasion to corners and spine edges. Interior is age-toned overall but is clean and without marks except for the author's signature on the front flyleaf and a previous owner's name and date inside the front cover. Photo is of the copy for sale at Barbed Wire Books.